Considering a degree in Chemical Engineering?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Chemical Engineering majors who live in Pennsylvania.
Rankings are calculated by estimating the net price at every college offering Chemical Engineering degrees for a "typical" middle class family living in the state of Pennsylvania.
Note: Net price is the actual cost of college paid after factoring in financial aid.The net prices displayed in these rankings are College Raptor's estimates.
“Typical” middle class family values used in the Net Price estimates on this page are:
| Rank | Institution | Typical Net Price | Sticker Price | % Savings | Undergraduates | Est. Median SAT | Acceptance Rate | Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Military Academy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,507 | 1335 | 0.1161 | |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins University | 2700 | 92000 | 0.9704 | 6,354 | 1554 | 0.0611 | |
| 3 | Princeton University | 4000 | 82600 | 0.9516 | 5,916 | 1528 | 0.0442 | |
| 4 | Yale University | 5500 | 92200 | 0.94 | 6,667 | 1507 | 0.0475 | |
| 5 | Carnegie Mellon University | 6900 | 90200 | 0.9237 | 7,728 | 1528 | 0.1107 | |
| 6 | Vanderbilt University | 7800 | 96200 | 0.9185 | 7,221 | 1527 | 0.0586 | |
| 7 | Brigham Young University | 8000 | 22000 | 0.6362 | 34,354 | 1374 | 0.6862 | |
| 7 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 8000 | 90000 | 0.9116 | 4,561 | 1542 | 0.0456 | |
| 9 | California Institute of Technology | 8300 | 91800 | 0.9096 | 971 | 1564 | 0.0379 | |
| 10 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8400 | 97100 | 0.914 | 9,164 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 11 | Rice University | 9800 | 89100 | 0.8903 | 4,807 | 1528 | 0.0801 | |
| 12 | University of California-Davis | 10200 | 38100 | 0.7328 | 31,695 | 1290 | 0.4435 | |
| 13 | Washington University in St Louis | 10700 | 102300 | 0.8957 | 8,153 | 1512 | 0.1192 | |
| 14 | University of Notre Dame | 10900 | 86200 | 0.874 | 8,950 | 1497 | 0.0938 | |
| 15 | University of Tulsa | 11400 | 62900 | 0.8184 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.615 | |
| 16 | Cornell University | 11500 | 93100 | 0.8767 | 16,138 | 1528 | 0.0838 | |
| 17 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 11600 | 29100 | 0.6019 | 40,996 | 1399 | 0.4175 | |
| 18 | University of Houston | 12000 | 28400 | 0.5781 | 40,366 | 1224 | 0.7577 | |
| 19 | Ohio State University-Main Campus | 12200 | 25700 | 0.5247 | 46,627 | 1366 | 0.492 | |
| 20 | The University of Texas at San Antonio | 12400 | 25000 | 0.5033 | 31,127 | 1115 | 0.8679 | |
| 21 | Lamar University | 12600 | 22900 | 0.4492 | 8,387 | 1040 | 0.8353 | |
| 22 | Lafayette College | 12900 | 84800 | 0.848 | 2,675 | 1415 | 0.3116 | |
| 23 | University of South Florida | 13100 | 17100 | 0.2337 | 39,093 | 1255 | 0.4071 | |
| 24 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 13400 | 43000 | 0.6883 | 23,091 | 1354 | 0.382 | |
| 25 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 13700 | 61700 | 0.7784 | 39,193 | 1418 | 0.4081 | |
| 26 | University of Georgia | 13800 | 26600 | 0.4812 | 32,824 | 1348 | 0.3425 | |
| 27 | Brown University | 13900 | 94000 | 0.8521 | 7,951 | 1500 | 0.0634 | |
| 28 | West Virginia University Institute of Technology | 14500 | 36200 | 0.5994 | 1,278 | 1025 | 0.3668 | |
| 29 | Stanford University | 14800 | 71700 | 0.794 | 7,346 | 1542 | 0.038 | |
| 30 | Case Western Reserve University | 15100 | 91300 | 0.835 | 6,657 | 1484 | 0.3778 | |
| 30 | University of California-Irvine | 15100 | 38000 | 0.603 | 30,260 | 1333 | 0.2895 | |
| 32 | The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga | 15300 | 25600 | 0.4016 | 10,396 | 1125 | 0.7162 | |
| 33 | Western Michigan University | 15400 | 26500 | 0.4193 | 13,714 | 1089 | 0.9121 | |
| 34 | Northeastern University | 15700 | 89900 | 0.8254 | 22,456 | 1481 | 0.0562 | |
| 35 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 15800 | 38400 | 0.5882 | 38,572 | 1455 | 0.3659 | |
| 36 | Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University | 15900 | 24200 | 0.3436 | 7,637 | 1115 | 0.1865 | |
| 37 | Lehigh University | 16000 | 88600 | 0.8194 | 5,986 | 1436 | 0.2896 | |
| 37 | University of California-Riverside | 16000 | 36500 | 0.5612 | 24,034 | 1199 | 0.8609 | |
| 39 | Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania | 16100 | 26900 | 0.4031 | 9,847 | 1090 | 0.9309 | |
| 40 | California State University-Long Beach | 16200 | 25800 | 0.3722 | 36,056 | 1135 | 0.4543 | |
| 41 | North Carolina State University | 16400 | 28500 | 0.4252 | 29,340 | 1374 | 0.3954 | |
| 42 | Wayne State University | 16500 | 32900 | 0.4982 | 16,390 | 1183 | 0.8359 | |
| 43 | Northwestern University | 16600 | 89500 | 0.8149 | 9,060 | 1533 | 0.0769 | |
| 43 | West Virginia University | 16600 | 40900 | 0.5939 | 18,206 | 1120 | 0.8514 | |
| 45 | University of Maine | 16700 | 29300 | 0.4303 | 9,182 | 1195 | 0.9562 | |
| 46 | West Chester University of Pennsylvania | 17100 | 17100 | 0.0005 | 14,657 | 1190 | 0.7583 | |
| 47 | University of Louisville | 17600 | 29100 | 0.3956 | 17,916 | 1134 | 0.7921 | |
| 48 | Prairie View A & M University | 17700 | 25400 | 0.3032 | 9,022 | 960 | 0.7836 | |
| 49 | The University of Texas Permian Basin | 18100 | 28600 | 0.3669 | 3,991 | 1010 | 0.9654 | |
| 50 | Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | 18200 | 18200 | 0 | 35,248 | 1289 | 0.6939 | |
| 50 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 18200 | 39000 | 0.533 | 37,985 | 1390 | 0.5815 | |
| 52 | University of Mississippi | 18300 | 45000 | 0.5938 | 22,939 | 1172 | 0.9738 | |
| 53 | Youngstown State University | 18400 | 34000 | 0.4589 | 9,687 | 1120 | 0.9145 | |
| 54 | McNeese State University | 18900 | 27400 | 0.3102 | 5,668 | 1060 | 0.7827 | |
| 54 | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | 18900 | 31000 | 0.3908 | 13,432 | 1225 | 0.8701 | |
| 56 | University of Illinois Chicago | 19000 | 30100 | 0.3693 | 24,260 | 1174 | 0.7576 | |
| 57 | University of Nevada-Reno | 19300 | 28200 | 0.3154 | 20,204 | 1109 | 0.8313 | |
| 58 | Texas A&M University-College Station | 19500 | 29900 | 0.3471 | 60,710 | 1278 | 0.5732 | |
| 59 | Pennsylvania Western University | 19600 | 29100 | 0.3269 | 7,586 | 1045 | 0.9433 | |
| 60 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 19700 | 78600 | 0.7492 | 17,848 | 1470 | 0.1565 | |
| 61 | Cleveland State University | 20000 | 30900 | 0.3523 | 9,418 | 1069 | 0.913 | |
| 61 | University of Colorado Boulder | 20000 | 31900 | 0.3716 | 32,244 | 1351 | 0.7809 | |
| 63 | University of Rochester | 20100 | 93100 | 0.7843 | 6,096 | 1448 | 0.4191 | |
| 64 | University of Southern California | 20200 | 75900 | 0.7342 | 20,768 | 1499 | 0.1119 | |
| 64 | Villanova University | 20200 | 87900 | 0.7702 | 6,933 | 1466 | 0.2814 | |
| 66 | Ohio University-Main Campus | 20300 | 23200 | 0.125 | 20,786 | 1225 | 0.8689 | |
| 67 | Louisiana Tech University | 21400 | 26100 | 0.1802 | 11,071 | 1189 | 0.9073 | |
| 68 | Tufts University | 21700 | 98900 | 0.7803 | 7,031 | 1497 | 0.1082 | |
| 69 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 21800 | 37300 | 0.4156 | 26,490 | 1183 | 0.8863 | |
| 69 | Marian University | 21800 | 59800 | 0.635 | 2,378 | 1085 | 0.9546 | |
| 71 | Montana State University | 22300 | 27100 | 0.1769 | 15,142 | 1184 | 0.9938 | |
| 71 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 22300 | 33600 | 0.336 | 21,469 | 1167 | 0.9061 | |
| 73 | Florida State University | 22400 | 32400 | 0.3091 | 34,271 | 1369 | 0.2383 | |
| 73 | New York University | 22400 | 91800 | 0.7556 | 29,471 | 1520 | 0.0906 | |
| 75 | The University of Alabama | 22700 | 31000 | 0.2675 | 35,621 | 1238 | 0.7117 | |
| 76 | San Jose State University | 23000 | 41100 | 0.4405 | 29,890 | 1135 | 0.8039 | |
| 76 | University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point | 23000 | 24700 | 0.0689 | 7,753 | 1140 | 0.9245 | |
| 78 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion | 23200 | 34500 | 0.3279 | 8,513 | 1160 | 0.9261 | |
| 79 | University of Kentucky | 23700 | 36400 | 0.3481 | 25,535 | 1193 | 0.9294 | |
| 79 | University of South Carolina-Columbia | 23700 | 24900 | 0.0481 | 31,845 | 1298 | 0.5651 | |
| 81 | University of Kansas | 24200 | 43000 | 0.4369 | 22,544 | 1176 | 0.9258 | |
| 82 | University of Arizona | 24400 | 38100 | 0.3597 | 43,294 | 1186 | 0.8351 | |
| 83 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 24600 | 30600 | 0.1961 | 9,827 | 1329 | 0.6737 | |
| 84 | Tennessee Technological University | 24900 | 33700 | 0.2612 | 9,187 | 1163 | 0.7613 | |
| 85 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 25000 | 40600 | 0.3843 | 21,388 | 1369 | 0.5945 | |
| 86 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 25300 | 32800 | 0.2286 | 19,787 | 1197 | 0.8807 | |
| 87 | University of Dayton | 25400 | 64200 | 0.6045 | 7,252 | 1319 | 0.6659 | |
| 88 | Christian Brothers University | 25800 | 57600 | 0.5513 | 1,155 | 1110 | 0.867 | |
| 88 | Michigan State University | 25800 | 28900 | 0.1089 | 41,415 | 1212 | 0.8324 | |
| 88 | University of North Dakota | 25800 | 28600 | 0.0977 | 11,837 | 1189 | 0.8157 | |
| 91 | Dordt University | 26200 | 52500 | 0.5007 | 1,716 | 1205 | 0.6847 | |
| 92 | Tuskegee University | 26300 | 42100 | 0.3757 | 2,660 | 1090 | 0.4868 | |
| 93 | Clarkson University | 26400 | 78000 | 0.6617 | 2,163 | 1283 | 0.825 | |
| 94 | Trine University | 26500 | 56100 | 0.5278 | 4,373 | 1159 | 0.8548 | |
| 95 | Bucknell University | 26600 | 88600 | 0.6994 | 3,928 | 1275 | 0.322 | |
| 95 | University of Arkansas | 26600 | 28900 | 0.0793 | 29,252 | 1179 | 0.7388 | |
| 97 | University of Idaho | 26700 | 45200 | 0.4089 | 9,656 | 1104 | 0.7476 | |
| 98 | Kansas State University | 27100 | 30400 | 0.109 | 16,555 | 1163 | 0.875 | |
| 99 | University of Minnesota Duluth | 27300 | 31300 | 0.1274 | 8,706 | 1230 | 0.8906 | |
| 100 | University of New Mexico-Main Campus | 27500 | 43800 | 0.3725 | 18,028 | 1059 | 0.7996 | |
| 101 | University of Maryland-Baltimore County | 27600 | 27600 | 0 | 11,087 | 1326 | 0.7397 | |
| 102 | Syracuse University | 27900 | 83100 | 0.6641 | 16,149 | 1374 | 0.4879 | |
| 103 | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology | 28000 | 33300 | 0.1589 | 2,216 | 1268 | 0.7987 | |
| 104 | Iowa State University | 28600 | 43300 | 0.34 | 26,346 | 1212 | 0.8793 | |
| 104 | University of Akron Main Campus | 28600 | 32300 | 0.1145 | 11,691 | 1074 | 0.7722 | |
| 106 | Oregon State University | 28800 | 36700 | 0.2153 | 31,253 | 1272 | 0.773 | |
| 107 | University of Toledo | 29300 | 32600 | 0.1009 | 10,726 | 1134 | 0.8889 | |
| 108 | Michigan Technological University | 29700 | 34700 | 0.1442 | 6,009 | 1247 | 0.8546 | |
| 109 | University of Iowa | 29800 | 32100 | 0.0714 | 23,407 | 1203 | 0.799 | |
| 110 | New Mexico State University-Main Campus | 30600 | 39200 | 0.2197 | 13,039 | 1020 | 0.894 | |
| 110 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 30600 | 78100 | 0.608 | 14,267 | 1363 | 0.6693 | |
| 112 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 31200 | 48800 | 0.361 | 21,028 | 1450 | 0.1334 | |
| 113 | University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown | 31500 | 49500 | 0.364 | 1,829 | 1149 | 0.945 | |
| 114 | California State Polytechnic University-Pomona | 31600 | 41200 | 0.2333 | 25,312 | 1134 | 0.7395 | |
| 114 | Hampton University | 31600 | 54800 | 0.4233 | 4,046 | 1005 | 0.6358 | |
| 114 | North Carolina A & T State University | 31600 | 36700 | 0.1388 | 12,497 | 1075 | 0.5125 | |
| 117 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 33200 | 75200 | 0.5587 | 3,190 | 1317 | 0.6187 | |
| 118 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | 33600 | 38200 | 0.1201 | 42,565 | 1339 | 0.7887 | |
| 119 | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus | 34000 | 41000 | 0.1705 | 23,003 | 1164 | 0.7367 | |
| 119 | University of Cincinnati-Main Campus | 34000 | 36100 | 0.0581 | 34,447 | 1273 | 0.8804 | |
| 121 | University of Rhode Island | 34400 | 46400 | 0.2584 | 14,466 | 1197 | 0.7456 | |
| 122 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 35200 | 56700 | 0.3792 | 12,122 | 1283 | 0.8296 | |
| 123 | The University of Texas at Tyler | 35400 | 56700 | 0.3754 | 8,219 | 1100 | 0.9485 | |
| 124 | Texas Tech University | 35700 | 38900 | 0.0823 | 34,021 | 1195 | 0.6906 | |
| 125 | Missouri University of Science and Technology | 36000 | 56300 | 0.3603 | 5,687 | 1305 | 0.7863 | |
| 126 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 36300 | 53100 | 0.3162 | 32,041 | 1324 | 0.4358 | |
| 127 | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | 36600 | 40000 | 0.085 | 1,984 | 1239 | 0.6328 | |
| 128 | University of Connecticut | 37100 | 53600 | 0.3081 | 20,056 | 1329 | 0.5239 | |
| 129 | Texas A&M University-Kingsville | 37300 | 41600 | 0.1031 | 5,386 | 995 | 0.9092 | |
| 130 | Benedictine College | 37600 | 50800 | 0.2599 | 2,404 | 1241 | 0.9812 | |
| 130 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 37600 | 66300 | 0.433 | 31,536 | 1366 | 0.5457 | |
| 132 | Kettering University | 37700 | 71800 | 0.4749 | 1,212 | 1204 | 0.7867 | |
| 133 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 37800 | 40100 | 0.0571 | 25,054 | 1225 | 0.7762 | |
| 134 | Washington State University | 38100 | 53900 | 0.2932 | 21,400 | 1131 | 0.861 | |
| 135 | Drexel University | 38400 | 83200 | 0.5384 | 12,318 | 1354 | 0.699 | |
| 136 | Manhattan University | 38900 | 74100 | 0.4749 | 2,378 | 1174 | 0.8216 | |
| 137 | Mississippi State University | 39100 | 53400 | 0.2675 | 19,093 | 1205 | 0.8363 | |
| 137 | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | 39100 | 44400 | 0.1192 | 1,066 | 1197 | 0.4449 | |
| 139 | University of South Alabama | 39700 | 39700 | 0 | 9,530 | 1140 | 0.9455 | |
| 140 | California Baptist University | 39900 | 65600 | 0.3917 | 8,707 | 1024 | 0.8139 | |
| 141 | University of Wyoming | 40000 | 45300 | 0.1168 | 8,138 | 1163 | 0.9695 | |
| 142 | University of California-Los Angeles | 40400 | 81800 | 0.5061 | 33,534 | 1399 | 0.0941 | |
| 143 | University of New Haven | 41100 | 67300 | 0.3891 | 4,969 | 1219 | 0.5589 | |
| 144 | Colorado School of Mines | 41400 | 60100 | 0.3111 | 6,195 | 1399 | 0.6069 | |
| 145 | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | 41700 | 83200 | 0.4988 | 2,160 | 1374 | 0.809 | |
| 146 | University of New Hampshire-Main Campus | 42500 | 56200 | 0.2439 | 10,900 | 1222 | 0.8914 | |
| 147 | University of Florida | 43100 | 45700 | 0.057 | 37,283 | 1406 | 0.2033 | |
| 147 | University of Maryland-College Park | 43100 | 53600 | 0.196 | 31,875 | 1456 | 0.4503 | |
| 149 | University at Buffalo | 43300 | 46700 | 0.0728 | 21,192 | 1309 | 0.8059 | |
| 150 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43400 | 68700 | 0.3679 | 4,279 | 1234 | 0.5796 | |
| 151 | Widener University | 45700 | 78400 | 0.417 | 2,975 | 1179 | 0.7093 | |
| 152 | University of California-San Diego | 46100 | 77200 | 0.4029 | 35,442 | 1375 | 0.2856 | |
| 153 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 46200 | 86300 | 0.4644 | 5,833 | 1440 | 0.6725 | |
| 154 | University of Delaware | 47800 | 61300 | 0.221 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 155 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 48300 | 91400 | 0.4717 | 6,839 | 1469 | 0.1446 | |
| 156 | Purdue University-Main Campus | 48500 | 51200 | 0.0544 | 43,633 | 1342 | 0.4343 | |
| 157 | University of Alabama in Huntsville | 48600 | 48600 | 0 | 6,743 | 1266 | 0.6292 | |
| 158 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 49500 | 85800 | 0.4229 | 4,206 | 1430 | 0.5068 | |
| 159 | The University of Texas at Austin | 49600 | 59400 | 0.165 | 44,314 | 1356 | 0.2222 | |
| 160 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 50300 | 83600 | 0.3982 | 5,461 | 1292 | 0.6189 | |
| 161 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 50800 | 84700 | 0.4003 | 35,358 | 1448 | 0.1642 | |
| 162 | University of Utah | 51400 | 53700 | 0.0426 | 29,335 | 1222 | 0.9015 | |
| 163 | Rowan University | 53600 | 53600 | 0 | 17,157 | 1204 | 0.7654 | |
| 163 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 53600 | 62800 | 0.1465 | 24,019 | 1404 | 0.5989 | |
| 165 | Howard University | 55100 | 66500 | 0.1715 | 11,519 | 1208 | 0.4134 | |
| 166 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 56000 | 64100 | 0.1263 | 42,604 | 1336 | 0.6056 | |
| 167 | Miami University-Oxford | 57400 | 57400 | 0 | 16,405 | 1284 | 0.74 | |
| 168 | Auburn University | 58500 | 58500 | 0 | 27,907 | 1324 | 0.4593 | |
| 169 | University of Missouri-Columbia | 59300 | 61600 | 0.0372 | 25,141 | 1256 | 0.7613 | |
| 170 | Clemson University | 61400 | 63700 | 0.036 | 23,401 | 1343 | 0.3834 | |
| 171 | University of California-Berkeley | 70900 | 76100 | 0.0684 | 33,513 | 1407 | 0.1145 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.
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