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The world's leading chemical schools operate in the United States: graduates with a degree in chemistry find jobs in laboratories, government agencies, research institutes, pharmaceutical companies, colleges and universities. Students receiving a chemical education are engaged in observation, analysis, synthesis, experiments, study the composition of natural substances, reproducing the chemical processes of the physical world in laboratory conditions, create new substances to meet the specific needs of science / industry.
Prestigious US universities offer courses that highlight the practical application of the principles of chemistry - students will learn how chemical knowledge can benefit individuals and society.
Research directions:
- Physical chemistry
- Analytical chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
- Organic chemistry
- Science study
- Adolescent development
- Teaching methods.
Career options:
- High school teacher
- Researcher
- Researcher (laboratories).
Best chemistry universities in USA 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2 | Harvard University |
| 3 | Stanford University |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 5 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 6 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 7 | Northwestern University |
| 8 | Yale University |
| 9 | Princeton University |
| 10 | Cornell University |
| 11 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 12 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 13 | University of Chicago |
| 14 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 15 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 16 | Columbia University |
| 17 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 18 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 19 | Purdue University |
| 20 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 21 | Texas A&M University |
| 22 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 23 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 24 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 25 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 26 | Rice University |
| 27 | Duke University |
| 28 | University of California, Davis |
| 29 | University of Minnesota (System) |
| 30 | University of Washington |
| 31 | The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) |
| 32 | University of Florida |
| 33 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 34 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 35 | University of California, Irvine |
| 36 | The Ohio State University |
| 37 | New York University (NYU) |
| 38 | University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) |
| 39 | Arizona State University |
| 40 | Boston University |
| 41 | Michigan State University |
| 42 | North Carolina State University |
| 43 | Rutgers University鈥揘ew Brunswick |
| 44 | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 45 | University of Pittsburgh |
| 46 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| 47 | Florida State University |
| 48 | Northeastern University |
| 49 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 50 | University of Southern California |
