Chemical Engineering at University of Southern California

What traits are you looking for in a chem eng school? To help you decide if University of Southern California is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's chem eng program.

USC is located in Los Angeles, California and has a total student population of 46,287. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 38 students received a bachelor's degree in chem eng from USC.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Chemical Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

USC Chemical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chem Eng
• Master’s Degree in Chem Eng
• Doctorate Degree in Chem Eng

USC Chemical Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the chem eng progam at USC compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The chem eng major at USC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Chemical Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Chemical Engineering Schools	42

In 2021, 18 students received their master’s degree in chem eng from USC. This makes it the #24 most popular school for chem eng master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 12 students who received their doctoral degrees in chem eng, making the school the #30 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Earnings of USC Chem Eng Graduates

The median salary of chem eng students who receive their bachelor's degree at USC is $66,458. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 1% higher than the national average of $66,101 for all chem eng bachelor's degree recipients.

Chem Eng Student Demographics at USC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the chem eng majors at University of Southern California.

USC Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 38 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from USC in 2020-2021, 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical chem eng bachelor's degree program is made up of only 38% women. So female students are more repesented at USC since its program graduates 12% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 21% more racial-ethnic minorities in its chem eng bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Southern California with a bachelor's in chem eng.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	14
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

USC Chemical Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 18 chem eng students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from USC, about 83% were men and 17% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Southern California with a master's in chem eng.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	2
International Students	11
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

USC also has a doctoral program available in chem eng. In 2021, 12 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Manufacturing Engineering
• Operations Research
• Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Petroleum Engineering
• Systems Engineering

Careers That Chem Eng Grads May Go Into

A degree in chem eng can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for University of Southern California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Architectural and Engineering Managers	31,580	$175,010
Engineers	20,600	$107,700
Engineering Professors	2,400	$129,790
Chemical Engineers	2,100	$103,590

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Original uploader was Padsquad19 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.