Best Colleges for Chemistry

World's Best Universities: Chemistry

Students who earn chemistry degrees can go on to find jobs in laboratories, government agencies, research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, colleges and universities, and more. These are the world's top universities for chemistry.

Rank	School	Overall Score	Academic Reputation Score	Employer Reputation Score
#1	Harvard University United States	92.6	91.7	100.0
#2	University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States	88.1	93.7	56.3
#3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	86.7	90.0	72.5
#4	University of Cambridge United Kingdom	85.9	100.0	85.8
#5	Stanford University United States	78.0	76.5	64.6
#6	University of Oxford United Kingdom	76.3	91.1	78.2
#7	California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States	69.6	75.4	36.9
#8	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States	68.3	57.6	49.0
#9	Imperial College London United Kingdom	64.8	68.5	62.0
#10	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland	62.3	71.9	42.3
#11	Yale University United States	60.7	59.7	51.4
#12	Princeton University United States	58.2	59.5	43.7
#13	The University of Tokyo Japan	57.0	71.9	43.4
#14	Cornell University United States	56.5	52.6	47.5
#15	National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore	55.1	58.7	42.4
#16	Columbia University United States	53.7	49.3	50.2
#16	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) United States	53.7	37.4	52.7
#18	University of Toronto Canada	52.5	58.6	37.2
#19	University of British Columbia (UBC) Canada	51.8	53.0	38.3
#20	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) United States	51.5	50.7	24.4
#21	University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) United States	51.4	42.8	29.8
#22	University of California, San Diego (UCSD) United States	50.7	46.0	33.4
#23	University of Melbourne Australia	50.4	43.5	56.9
#24	University of Chicago United States	50.2	47.8	44.5
#25	Kyoto University Japan	50.0	60.1	44.1

Learn more about different chemistry careers.

Chemistry Career Descriptions

In simplest terms, chemistry is the science of matter. Anything that can be touched, tasted, smelled, seen or felt is made of chemicals.

Chemists are the people who transform the everyday materials around us into amazing things. Some chemists work on cures for cancer while others monitor the ozone protecting us from the sun. Still others discover new materials to make our homes warmer in the winter, or new textiles to be used in the latest fashions. The knowledge gained through the study of chemistry opens many career pathways. Here are just a few of the careers chosen by chemists.

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