La ingeniería se considera justamente una de las áreas modernas más prometedoras. El desarrollo de tecnologías avanza a un ritmo acelerado y, en cualquier etapa de este proceso, se necesitan ingenieros cualificados, experimentados y competentes, incluidos químicos ingenieros.

Esta interesante especialidad en la unión de dos ciencias sugiere:
- Estudiar, desarrollar e implementar el mejor proceso para la producción de productos químicos (desde productos químicos y formulaciones de alta tecnología hasta fertilizantes, orgánicos e inorgánicos)
- Planificación de fases y métodos de producción con máxima eficiencia y costes mínimos
- Desarrollo de métodos de producción seguros para las personas y el medio ambiente
- Control de calidad de las composiciones iniciales y los productos finales
- Control de cada etapa de producción, modernización y mejora de indicadores
- Desarrollo de mapas tecnológicos, procesos de producción hasta la compra y control de calidad de materias primas
- Control de calidad del equipo utilizado
- Mejorar la eficiencia de los procesos químicos, etc.

Los ingenieros químicos, los tecnólogos químicos suelen encontrarse en la industria del petróleo y gas, la geodesia, la geología aplicada y la minería, la agricultura y la farmacéutica. El alcance de sus conocimientos es enorme: las 100 mejores universidades del mundo en química de ingeniería te ayudarán a decidir la mejor manera de acceder a esta popular profesión.

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2027 QS: Engineering - Chemical
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 96.1 |
| 2 | Stanford University | 93 |
| 3 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 92.7 |
| 4 | Imperial College London | 92.4 |
| 5 | University of Cambridge | 91 |
| 6 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | 90 |
| =7 | ETH Zurich | 89.5 |
| =7 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 89.5 |
| 9 | University of Oxford | 88.9 |
| 10 | Tsinghua University | 87.7 |
| 11 | EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne | 85 |
| 12 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | 84.7 |
| =13 | Institute of Science Tokyo | 84.1 |
| =13 | Seoul National University | 84.1 |
| 15 | Delft University of Technology | 83.7 |
| 16 | Princeton University | 83.4 |
| =17 | The University of Manchester | 83.1 |
| =17 | UCL | 83.1 |
| 19 | Yale University | 82.6 |
| 20 | The University of Tokyo | 82.5 |
| =21 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 82.2 |
| =21 | Technical University of Denmark | 82.2 |
| =21 | University of Texas at Austin | 82.2 |
| 24 | Peking University | 81.7 |
| 25 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 80.4 |
| 26 | Zhejiang University | 80 |
| =27 | Cornell University | 79.7 |
| =27 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 79.7 |
| =27 | University of Minnesota (System) | 79.7 |
| 30 | University of Toronto | 79.6 |
| 31 | McGill University | 79.1 |
| 32 | Politecnico di Milano | 79 |
| 33 | Texas A&M University | 78.9 |
| 34 | Tianjin University | 78.8 |
| 35 | Purdue University | 78.6 |
| 36 | The University of Queensland | 78.4 |
| =37 | Monash University | 78 |
| =37 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) | 78 |
| 39 | The University of Melbourne | 77.7 |
| 40 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 77.6 |
| 41 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 77.4 |
| =42 | KU Leuven | 77.3 |
| =42 | Northwestern University | 77.3 |
| =42 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 77.3 |
| =45 | Technical University of Munich | 77.2 |
| =45 | University of British Columbia | 77.2 |
| 47 | Columbia University | 77.1 |
| 48 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) | 76.8 |
| 49 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) | 76.7 |
| 50 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 76.1 |
| =51 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 75.9 |
| =51 | Korea University | 75.9 |
| =53 | Kyoto University | 75.8 |
| =53 | RWTH Aachen University | 75.8 |
| =53 | University of Pennsylvania | 75.8 |
| 56 | Yonsei University | 75.7 |
| 57 | Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) | 75.4 |
| =58 | KFUPM | 75.2 |
| =58 | Pennsylvania State University | 75.2 |
| 60 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 75.1 |
| 61 | Eindhoven University of Technology | 75 |
| =62 | Universidade de São Paulo | 74.9 |
| =62 | University of Chicago | 74.9 |
| 64 | The University of Hong Kong | 74.8 |
| =65 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 74.7 |
| =65 | Politecnico di Torino | 74.7 |
| =65 | The University of Edinburgh | 74.7 |
| =68 | King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) | 74.6 |
| =68 | University of Birmingham | 74.6 |
| 70 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 74.4 |
| 71 | Ghent University | 74.3 |
| =72 | Fudan University | 74.2 |
| =72 | The University of Sydney | 74.2 |
| =72 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | 74.2 |
| 75 | Johns Hopkins University | 74 |
| =76 | Carnegie Mellon University | 73.8 |
| =76 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | 73.8 |
| 78 | University of Alberta | 73.7 |
| 79 | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) | 73.6 |
| 80 | Adelaide University | 73.3 |
| 81 | University of Nottingham | 73.1 |
| 82 | Rice University | 72.9 |
| =83 | Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | 72.8 |
| =83 | University of Leeds | 72.8 |
| =85 | Nanjing University | 72.6 |
| =85 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 72.6 |
| =87 | Universiti Malaya (UM) | 72.4 |
| =87 | Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) | 72.4 |
| =89 | University of Waterloo | 72.3 |
| =89 | Wageningen University & Research | 72.3 |
| 91 | Hanyang University | 72.2 |
| 92 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) | 72 |
| 93 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) | 71.6 |
| 94 | Khalifa University | 71.5 |
| =95 | East China University of Science and Technology | 71.4 |
| =95 | Norwegian University of Science And Technology | 71.4 |
| =97 | Sorbonne University | 71.3 |
| =97 | University of Delaware | 71.3 |
| 99 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) | 71.1 |
| 100 | Sichuan University | 70.6 |