Master of Science in Chemical Engineering

Our graduate programs in Chemical Engineering take advantage of the cutting-edge research and technology at Carnegie Mellon through project work and graduate-level courses. Whether you’re looking for your Master of Science in Chemical Engineering or Colloids, Polymers, and Surfaces, or your Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, our curriculum provides students with skills and technical depth relevant for a variety of careers.

Graduates of our master’s programs excel at numerical methods for solving engineering problems, computational fluid mechanics and transport, process simulation, and optimization. Students pursuing their Ph.D. become independent researchers equipped to apply chemical engineering principles, as well as advanced analytical and experimental techniques to the solution of open ended problems in academia, industry, and governmental research careers.

Carnegie Mellon University challenges the curious and passionate to imagine and deliver work that matters.

A private, global research university, Carnegie Mellon stands among the world's most renowned educational institutions, and sets its own course. Start the journey here.

With cutting-edge brain science, path-breaking performances, innovative start-ups, driverless cars, big data, big ambitions, Nobel and Turing prizes, hands-on learning, and a whole lot of robots, CMU doesn't imagine the future, we create it.

Ranked in the top 10 engineering colleges (graduate & undergraduate) by U.S. News & World Report.