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Considering a degree in Chemical Engineering?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Chemical Engineering majors who live in South Carolina.
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 South Carolina.
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 | 4,473 | 1326 | 0.1245 | |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins University | 2700 | 92000 | 0.9704 | 6,356 | 1543 | 0.0644 | |
| 3 | Princeton University | 5500 | 82400 | 0.9329 | 5,813 | 1535 | 0.0462 | |
| 3 | Yale University | 5500 | 92200 | 0.94 | 6,814 | 1507 | 0.0387 | |
| 5 | California Institute of Technology | 6800 | 91800 | 0.9264 | 987 | 1557 | 0.0257 | |
| 6 | Greenville Technical College | 7200 | 18300 | 0.6082 | 10,661 | 0 | 0.5257 | |
| 7 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 7700 | 90000 | 0.9149 | 4,580 | 1542 | 0.0455 | |
| 8 | Vanderbilt University | 7900 | 96500 | 0.9183 | 7,221 | 1527 | 0.0586 | |
| 9 | Brigham Young University | 8000 | 22000 | 0.6362 | 32,952 | 1374 | 0.6778 | |
| 10 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8400 | 98000 | 0.9146 | 9,157 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 11 | Rice University | 8600 | 89100 | 0.9038 | 4,789 | 1535 | 0.08 | |
| 12 | Carnegie Mellon University | 9000 | 90900 | 0.9007 | 7,824 | 1528 | 0.1166 | |
| 13 | Washington University in St Louis | 9300 | 102300 | 0.909 | 8,220 | 1513 | 0.1206 | |
| 14 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 9500 | 30000 | 0.6831 | 40,754 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
| 15 | University of California-Davis | 10200 | 38500 | 0.7358 | 32,273 | 1290 | 0.4183 | |
| 16 | University of Notre Dame | 10900 | 86200 | 0.874 | 8,880 | 1471 | 0.1127 | |
| 17 | University of California-San Diego | 11700 | 39700 | 0.7052 | 34,955 | 1375 | 0.2677 | |
| 18 | Cornell University | 11800 | 93100 | 0.8735 | 16,128 | 1521 | 0.0841 | |
| 19 | Lafayette College | 11900 | 85800 | 0.8618 | 2,775 | 1427 | 0.3145 | |
| 19 | University of Houston | 11900 | 23100 | 0.485 | 39,257 | 1249 | 0.7392 | |
| 19 | University of Illinois Chicago | 11900 | 30400 | 0.6077 | 22,495 | 1252 | 0.7735 | |
| 22 | California State Polytechnic University-Pomona | 12600 | 12600 | 0 | 25,255 | 1134 | 0.737 | |
| 23 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 12700 | 41800 | 0.696 | 37,140 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
| 24 | New Mexico State University-Main Campus | 13200 | 54500 | 0.7577 | 12,498 | 1010 | 0.8896 | |
| 24 | West Virginia University | 13200 | 57700 | 0.7711 | 18,614 | 1125 | 0.778 | |
| 26 | Youngstown State University | 13600 | 26800 | 0.4921 | 8,436 | 1065 | 0.8066 | |
| 27 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 13700 | 51900 | 0.7365 | 39,083 | 1412 | 0.4517 | |
| 28 | West Virginia University Institute of Technology | 14200 | 48200 | 0.706 | 1,448 | 1035 | 0.61 | |
| 29 | The University of Texas Permian Basin | 14300 | 46000 | 0.6888 | 4,218 | 1020 | 0.9307 | |
| 29 | University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point | 14300 | 28000 | 0.4898 | 7,557 | 1140 | 0.9037 | |
| 31 | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus | 14400 | 26500 | 0.4563 | 22,351 | 1159 | 0.7504 | |
| 32 | Louisiana Tech University | 14500 | 36900 | 0.6069 | 11,071 | 1164 | 0.9073 | |
| 32 | Ohio State University-Main Campus | 14500 | 25700 | 0.4353 | 46,815 | 1339 | 0.6057 | |
| 32 | University of California-Riverside | 14500 | 66000 | 0.7807 | 22,599 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
| 35 | Bucknell University | 14700 | 94800 | 0.8448 | 3,920 | 1284 | 0.2893 | |
| 35 | Coastal Carolina University | 14700 | 27200 | 0.4605 | 10,811 | 1145 | 0.7527 | |
| 35 | Stanford University | 14700 | 71200 | 0.7934 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
| 38 | Case Western Reserve University | 15100 | 83100 | 0.8181 | 6,528 | 1485 | 0.3778 | |
| 39 | University of California-Irvine | 15200 | 36300 | 0.5811 | 30,204 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
| 40 | Northeastern University | 15400 | 89900 | 0.8287 | 22,695 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 41 | Lehigh University | 15600 | 89600 | 0.8263 | 5,911 | 1436 | 0.2593 | |
| 42 | California State University-Long Beach | 16000 | 25800 | 0.3799 | 35,843 | 1135 | 0.4628 | |
| 43 | Ohio University-Main Campus | 16100 | 23200 | 0.306 | 19,888 | 1209 | 0.8517 | |
| 44 | Lamar University | 16500 | 22900 | 0.2791 | 8,218 | 1045 | 0.857 | |
| 45 | Wayne State University | 16700 | 46200 | 0.6386 | 16,173 | 1174 | 0.7786 | |
| 46 | University of South Florida | 17100 | 17100 | 0 | 38,525 | 1239 | 0.4319 | |
| 47 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 17300 | 32200 | 0.4626 | 10,200 | 1346 | 0.6507 | |
| 48 | University of Rhode Island | 17700 | 33900 | 0.478 | 14,376 | 1148 | 0.7216 | |
| 48 | University of South Alabama | 17700 | 35200 | 0.4974 | 9,241 | 1140 | 0.7096 | |
| 50 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 18100 | 52500 | 0.6552 | 21,210 | 1171 | 0.9232 | |
| 51 | The University of Texas at Tyler | 18200 | 50400 | 0.6392 | 7,683 | 1120 | 0.9402 | |
| 52 | Prairie View A & M University | 18400 | 25400 | 0.2756 | 8,836 | 970 | 0.7794 | |
| 53 | University of Mississippi | 18700 | 27000 | 0.3073 | 21,585 | 1182 | 0.9658 | |
| 54 | McNeese State University | 19000 | 32800 | 0.4213 | 5,560 | 1070 | 0.6755 | |
| 55 | University of Idaho | 19300 | 45200 | 0.5725 | 9,574 | 1119 | 0.7553 | |
| 56 | University of Missouri-Columbia | 19400 | 36900 | 0.4748 | 24,457 | 1256 | 0.7847 | |
| 57 | Western Michigan University | 19600 | 26500 | 0.2606 | 13,860 | 1104 | 0.846 | |
| 58 | San Jose State University | 20000 | 33600 | 0.4044 | 28,008 | 0 | 0.8461 | |
| 58 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 20000 | 78700 | 0.7459 | 17,901 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
| 60 | University of Southern California | 20200 | 75800 | 0.7338 | 20,630 | 1492 | 0.0981 | |
| 60 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 20200 | 45200 | 0.5537 | 31,035 | 1366 | 0.5499 | |
| 62 | University of Rochester | 20300 | 93100 | 0.7822 | 6,580 | 1469 | 0.4008 | |
| 63 | University of Tulsa | 20500 | 62900 | 0.6741 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.615 | |
| 64 | Purdue University-Main Campus | 20700 | 30600 | 0.3258 | 44,170 | 1327 | 0.4979 | |
| 64 | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | 20700 | 31000 | 0.3327 | 13,179 | 1110 | 0.8883 | |
| 66 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 20900 | 32800 | 0.3634 | 19,701 | 1214 | 0.8749 | |
| 67 | Texas A&M University-College Station | 21000 | 30700 | 0.3143 | 60,710 | 1278 | 0.5732 | |
| 68 | Northwestern University | 21500 | 89500 | 0.7601 | 9,060 | 1533 | 0.0769 | |
| 69 | Tufts University | 22100 | 98900 | 0.7763 | 7,126 | 1507 | 0.1153 | |
| 70 | Florida State University | 22500 | 22900 | 0.0174 | 32,711 | 1360 | 0.2422 | |
| 70 | University of Florida | 22500 | 43200 | 0.4795 | 36,573 | 1399 | 0.242 | |
| 72 | University of New Mexico-Main Campus | 23000 | 27500 | 0.1618 | 17,771 | 1044 | 0.7933 | |
| 73 | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | 23200 | 40000 | 0.4199 | 1,984 | 1239 | 0.6328 | |
| 74 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion | 23300 | 35000 | 0.3343 | 65,450 | 1203 | 0.8989 | |
| 74 | Montana State University | 23300 | 31500 | 0.2604 | 15,053 | 1184 | 0.8214 | |
| 76 | University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown | 23400 | 44400 | 0.4726 | 1,809 | 1109 | 0.9484 | |
| 77 | New York University | 23600 | 91800 | 0.7427 | 29,060 | 1520 | 0.0923 | |
| 78 | University at Buffalo | 24300 | 34000 | 0.2853 | 20,360 | 1303 | 0.7418 | |
| 79 | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology | 24800 | 26900 | 0.0794 | 2,170 | 1239 | 0.8525 | |
| 80 | Tennessee Technological University | 25000 | 33700 | 0.2566 | 8,838 | 1159 | 0.8316 | |
| 81 | The University of Texas at San Antonio | 25300 | 56100 | 0.5487 | 31,127 | 1115 | 0.8679 | |
| 82 | Dordt University | 25400 | 52500 | 0.5159 | 1,695 | 1170 | 0.7116 | |
| 83 | University of Arkansas | 25600 | 27700 | 0.077 | 28,859 | 1179 | 0.7431 | |
| 83 | University of Kansas | 25600 | 44000 | 0.4185 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 85 | Christian Brothers University | 25900 | 57600 | 0.5495 | 1,155 | 1110 | 0.867 | |
| 85 | University of North Dakota | 25900 | 28600 | 0.0923 | 11,033 | 1189 | 0.769 | |
| 87 | Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | 26100 | 59900 | 0.5642 | 34,242 | 1273 | 0.7333 | |
| 88 | University of South Carolina-Columbia | 26300 | 26300 | 0 | 30,187 | 1292 | 0.6015 | |
| 89 | Tuskegee University | 26500 | 42100 | 0.371 | 2,400 | 1113 | 0.3143 | |
| 90 | Trine University | 26600 | 56100 | 0.5251 | 4,157 | 1209 | 0.8469 | |
| 90 | University of St Thomas | 26600 | 50900 | 0.4776 | 3,395 | 1080 | 0.8993 | |
| 92 | University of Arizona | 27100 | 38500 | 0.2958 | 45,025 | 1212 | 0.8614 | |
| 93 | Cleveland State University | 27300 | 37300 | 0.2682 | 9,418 | 1105 | 0.913 | |
| 93 | University of Minnesota Duluth | 27300 | 31100 | 0.1233 | 8,426 | 1235 | 0.8876 | |
| 95 | University of Maryland-Baltimore County | 27600 | 31000 | 0.1098 | 10,767 | 1326 | 0.7243 | |
| 96 | Syracuse University | 27800 | 83100 | 0.6654 | 15,958 | 1363 | 0.4611 | |
| 97 | Clarkson University | 27900 | 78000 | 0.6425 | 2,296 | 1302 | 0.7736 | |
| 97 | Texas Tech University | 27900 | 27900 | 0 | 32,580 | 1200 | 0.7265 | |
| 97 | Villanova University | 27900 | 88800 | 0.6856 | 7,006 | 1457 | 0.2698 | |
| 100 | University of Delaware | 28500 | 34500 | 0.1741 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 101 | University of Akron Main Campus | 28600 | 33400 | 0.1437 | 11,160 | 1069 | 0.5967 | |
| 102 | Iowa State University | 28800 | 43300 | 0.3365 | 25,628 | 1207 | 0.8866 | |
| 103 | University of Utah | 28900 | 32000 | 0.098 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 104 | University of Louisville | 29100 | 29100 | 0 | 17,086 | 1148 | 0.7941 | |
| 105 | University of Connecticut | 29200 | 33700 | 0.1337 | 20,056 | 1329 | 0.5239 | |
| 106 | Kansas State University | 29500 | 41600 | 0.2903 | 15,650 | 1164 | 0.8199 | |
| 107 | Michigan Technological University | 30500 | 34700 | 0.1211 | 6,022 | 1256 | 0.8353 | |
| 107 | University of Alabama in Huntsville | 30500 | 41900 | 0.272 | 6,800 | 1245 | 0.6857 | |
| 109 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 30800 | 78100 | 0.6056 | 14,267 | 1363 | 0.6693 | |
| 109 | University of Toledo | 30800 | 42000 | 0.2653 | 11,013 | 1159 | 0.9202 | |
| 111 | The University of Alabama | 31000 | 55600 | 0.4425 | 34,389 | 1233 | 0.7665 | |
| 112 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 31100 | 49800 | 0.3755 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 112 | University of Kentucky | 31100 | 36100 | 0.1386 | 25,535 | 1193 | 0.9294 | |
| 114 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 31600 | 59600 | 0.4695 | 23,181 | 1354 | 0.3296 | |
| 115 | University of Dayton | 32000 | 64200 | 0.5016 | 7,740 | 1284 | 0.6566 | |
| 116 | Hampton University | 32200 | 62400 | 0.4836 | 3,728 | 956 | 0.6225 | |
| 116 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 32200 | 75200 | 0.572 | 3,135 | 1299 | 0.5493 | |
| 116 | Manhattan University | 32200 | 72500 | 0.5559 | 2,928 | 1248 | 0.785 | |
| 116 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | 32200 | 36700 | 0.121 | 41,303 | 1338 | 0.7975 | |
| 120 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 32500 | 35100 | 0.0742 | 30,564 | 1302 | 0.416 | |
| 121 | North Carolina State University | 32800 | 54800 | 0.4004 | 28,422 | 1335 | 0.4167 | |
| 122 | California Baptist University | 33600 | 65600 | 0.4876 | 8,417 | 1069 | 0.8535 | |
| 123 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 34400 | 58500 | 0.4125 | 36,588 | 1367 | 0.6535 | |
| 124 | The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga | 34500 | 34500 | 0 | 9,982 | 1125 | 0.7702 | |
| 125 | University of New Haven | 35600 | 67100 | 0.4695 | 4,903 | 1180 | 0.6038 | |
| 126 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 36100 | 56800 | 0.3642 | 12,122 | 1283 | 0.8296 | |
| 127 | Missouri University of Science and Technology | 36200 | 56300 | 0.3575 | 5,552 | 1305 | 0.7255 | |
| 127 | North Carolina A & T State University | 36200 | 36600 | 0.0109 | 12,216 | 1040 | 0.4617 | |
| 129 | Colorado School of Mines | 36300 | 60100 | 0.3962 | 5,852 | 1396 | 0.596 | |
| 129 | Mississippi State University | 36300 | 50500 | 0.2801 | 18,567 | 1214 | 0.7764 | |
| 131 | Texas A&M University-Kingsville | 37500 | 41600 | 0.0993 | 5,386 | 995 | 0.9092 | |
| 132 | Benedictine College | 37600 | 50800 | 0.2599 | 2,391 | 1223 | 0.7645 | |
| 133 | Auburn University | 38000 | 38000 | 0 | 27,907 | 1324 | 0.4593 | |
| 133 | University of Nevada-Reno | 38000 | 45800 | 0.1704 | 18,895 | 1134 | 0.7371 | |
| 135 | Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University | 38500 | 38500 | 0 | 7,890 | 1105 | 0.2056 | |
| 135 | Kettering University | 38500 | 83800 | 0.5406 | 1,212 | 1204 | 0.7867 | |
| 137 | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | 39300 | 44400 | 0.1157 | 1,217 | 1229 | 0.5405 | |
| 138 | University of Wyoming | 40200 | 45300 | 0.1134 | 8,130 | 1159 | 0.9688 | |
| 139 | University of California-Los Angeles | 40400 | 81800 | 0.5067 | 33,471 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
| 140 | Washington State University | 40700 | 56300 | 0.2775 | 21,455 | 1131 | 0.8664 | |
| 141 | Widener University | 41100 | 79400 | 0.4825 | 2,811 | 1155 | 0.8402 | |
| 142 | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | 41600 | 83300 | 0.5009 | 2,315 | 1382 | 0.7686 | |
| 143 | University of New Hampshire-Main Campus | 42500 | 57700 | 0.2632 | 11,365 | 1216 | 0.8816 | |
| 144 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 43000 | 54700 | 0.2138 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 145 | University of Georgia | 43100 | 48800 | 0.1172 | 31,514 | 1336 | 0.3719 | |
| 146 | University of Maryland-College Park | 43200 | 53400 | 0.191 | 31,133 | 1456 | 0.448 | |
| 147 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43400 | 68600 | 0.3665 | 3,677 | 1224 | 0.577 | |
| 148 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 43900 | 57100 | 0.2302 | 23,351 | 1239 | 0.766 | |
| 149 | Oregon State University | 44900 | 61900 | 0.2745 | 31,253 | 1272 | 0.773 | |
| 150 | University of Maine | 45200 | 45200 | 0 | 591 | 1199 | 0.9684 | |
| 151 | The University of Texas at Austin | 45300 | 45300 | 0 | 43,165 | 1348 | 0.2664 | |
| 152 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 46200 | 86200 | 0.4639 | 5,743 | 1438 | 0.6343 | |
| 153 | Michigan State University | 47200 | 56200 | 0.1601 | 41,234 | 1223 | 0.848 | |
| 154 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 48700 | 92100 | 0.4715 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 155 | Drexel University | 48800 | 83800 | 0.4176 | 13,169 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 156 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 49600 | 85800 | 0.4218 | 4,236 | 1445 | 0.4758 | |
| 157 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 50400 | 82600 | 0.39 | 5,558 | 1292 | 0.6016 | |
| 158 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 51000 | 84700 | 0.398 | 34,454 | 1435 | 0.1564 | |
| 159 | University of Iowa | 51100 | 53200 | 0.0401 | 22,738 | 1208 | 0.8362 | |
| 160 | University of Cincinnati-Main Campus | 53400 | 53400 | 0 | 33,572 | 1264 | 0.8529 | |
| 161 | Rowan University | 53600 | 53600 | 0 | 16,199 | 1214 | 0.783 | |
| 162 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 53700 | 64200 | 0.1635 | 23,920 | 1390 | 0.5973 | |
| 163 | University of Colorado Boulder | 55700 | 56600 | 0.0159 | 32,100 | 1290 | 0.8115 | |
| 164 | Miami University-Oxford | 56600 | 56600 | 0 | 16,816 | 1299 | 0.754 | |
| 165 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 58200 | 64100 | 0.0921 | 42,604 | 1336 | 0.6056 | |
| 166 | Howard University | 58300 | 76900 | 0.2418 | 11,519 | 1208 | 0.4134 | |
| 167 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 59100 | 61200 | 0.0349 | 26,500 | 1183 | 0.8857 | |
| 168 | Clemson University | 61500 | 63700 | 0.0335 | 23,401 | 1343 | 0.3834 | |
| 169 | University of California-Berkeley | 70800 | 75900 | 0.0672 | 33,469 | 1407 | 0.1104 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.