
El estudio de la ingeniería química implica el estudio de temas como el proceso de fabricación de productos, equipos para la realización de procesos químicos y otros.

En la mayoría de las universidades, la educación para estudiantes extranjeros se realiza de forma remunerada; la educación en el programa de grado dura unos tres o cinco años, y en el máster dos años.
Best Chemical Engineering universities in Europe 2027 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | Imperial College London |
| 2 | University of Cambridge |
| 3 | ETH Zurich |
| 4 | University of Oxford |
| 5 | EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
| 6 | Delft University of Technology |
| 7 | The University of Manchester |
| 8 | UCL |
| 9 | Technical University of Denmark |
| 10 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 11 | Politecnico di Milano |
| 12 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) |
| 13 | KU Leuven |
| 14 | Technical University of Munich |
| 15 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| 16 | RWTH Aachen University |
| 17 | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| 18 | Politecnico di Torino |
| 19 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 20 | University of Birmingham |
| 21 | Ghent University |
| 22 | University of Nottingham |
| 23 | University of Leeds |
| 24 | Wageningen University & Research |
| 25 | Norwegian University of Science And Technology |
| 26 | Sorbonne University |
| 27 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna |
| 28 | Chalmers University of Technology |
| 29 | Complutense University of Madrid |
| 30 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 31 | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 32 | Lund University |
| 33 | National Technical University of Athens |
| 34 | Sapienza University of Rome |
| 35 | The University of Sheffield |
| 36 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| 37 | Universitat Politecnica de Valencia |
| 38 | Universitat de Barcelona |
| 39 | University of Amsterdam |
| 40 | University of Bath |
| 41 | University of Lisbon |
| 42 | University of Naples - Federico II |
| 43 | University of Porto |
| 44 | University of Twente |
| 45 | Università di Padova |
| 46 | Université PSL |
| 47 | Université Paris-Saclay |
| 48 | Uppsala University |
| 49 | Heriot-Watt University |
| 50 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris |