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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 | Harvard University |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 3 | Stanford University |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 5 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 6 | Northwestern University |
| 7 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 8 | Yale University |
| 9 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 10 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 11 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 12 | Cornell University |
| 13 | Princeton University |
| 14 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 15 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 16 | Columbia University |
| 17 | University of Chicago |
| 18 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 19 | Purdue University |
| 20 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 21 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 22 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 23 | Texas A&M University |
| 24 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 25 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 26 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities |
| 27 | University of Washington |
| 28 | Duke University |
| 29 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 30 | The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) |
| 31 | University of California, Davis |
| 32 | Rice University |
| 33 | The Ohio State University |
| 34 | University of Florida |
| 35 | Boston University |
| 36 | Michigan State University |
| 37 | University of California, Irvine |
| 38 | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 39 | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) |
| 40 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 41 | New York University (NYU) |
| 42 | North Carolina State University |
| 43 | Rutgers University–New Brunswick |
| 44 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 45 | University of Pittsburgh |
| 46 | University of Southern California |
| 47 | Washington State University |
| 48 | Arizona State University |
| 49 | Brown University |
| 50 | Emory University |
