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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 | |
| 1 | University of California-Los Angeles | 0 | 68600 | 1 | 33,471 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
| 3 | Rice University | 4200 | 85500 | 0.9508 | 4,789 | 1535 | 0.08 | |
| 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 5200 | 86800 | 0.9398 | 4,576 | 1535 | 0.0485 | |
| 5 | Yale University | 5500 | 92300 | 0.9403 | 6,814 | 1507 | 0.0387 | |
| 6 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 7100 | 39100 | 0.8193 | 34,454 | 1435 | 0.1564 | |
| 7 | California Institute of Technology | 7600 | 90300 | 0.9157 | 987 | 1557 | 0.0257 | |
| 8 | Greenville Technical College | 8300 | 18300 | 0.5481 | 10,661 | 0 | 0.5257 | |
| 9 | Princeton University | 8400 | 81800 | 0.8972 | 5,813 | 1535 | 0.0462 | |
| 10 | CUNY City College | 8600 | 31200 | 0.7245 | 12,982 | 1169 | 0.5997 | |
| 11 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8900 | 94100 | 0.9057 | 9,157 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 12 | Vanderbilt University | 9000 | 95000 | 0.9051 | 7,221 | 1527 | 0.0586 | |
| 13 | Johns Hopkins University | 9600 | 88600 | 0.8915 | 6,356 | 1543 | 0.0644 | |
| 13 | Washington University in St Louis | 9600 | 96200 | 0.9006 | 8,220 | 1513 | 0.1206 | |
| 15 | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | 9700 | 30100 | 0.6772 | 1,217 | 1229 | 0.5405 | |
| 16 | University of California-Davis | 10100 | 37800 | 0.732 | 32,273 | 1290 | 0.4183 | |
| 17 | Cornell University | 10700 | 92000 | 0.8834 | 16,128 | 1521 | 0.0841 | |
| 18 | University of Notre Dame | 11100 | 86100 | 0.871 | 8,880 | 1499 | 0.1127 | |
| 19 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 11900 | 27200 | 0.5632 | 40,754 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
| 20 | The University of Texas at Austin | 12200 | 30700 | 0.6023 | 43,165 | 1335 | 0.2664 | |
| 20 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 12200 | 34300 | 0.6439 | 37,140 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
| 22 | Lafayette College | 12400 | 85800 | 0.856 | 2,775 | 1427 | 0.3145 | |
| 22 | New Mexico State University-Main Campus | 12400 | 29900 | 0.5852 | 12,498 | 1010 | 0.8896 | |
| 24 | The University of Texas Permian Basin | 13100 | 37100 | 0.6464 | 4,218 | 1020 | 0.9307 | |
| 25 | The University of Texas at San Antonio | 13300 | 24400 | 0.4554 | 31,127 | 1115 | 0.8679 | |
| 26 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 13700 | 32200 | 0.5744 | 39,083 | 1412 | 0.4517 | |
| 27 | West Virginia University Institute of Technology | 13900 | 29100 | 0.5231 | 1,448 | 1105 | 0.61 | |
| 28 | Texas Tech University | 14000 | 26800 | 0.4772 | 32,580 | 1200 | 0.7265 | |
| 29 | Louisiana Tech University | 14100 | 24800 | 0.4321 | 11,071 | 1164 | 0.9073 | |
| 29 | North Carolina A & T State University | 14100 | 17900 | 0.2129 | 12,216 | 1020 | 0.4617 | |
| 31 | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus | 14500 | 26500 | 0.454 | 22,351 | 1159 | 0.7504 | |
| 31 | University of Idaho | 14500 | 26400 | 0.4504 | 9,574 | 1119 | 0.7553 | |
| 33 | Carnegie Mellon University | 14700 | 87300 | 0.8314 | 7,824 | 1528 | 0.1166 | |
| 33 | University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point | 14700 | 23600 | 0.3769 | 7,557 | 1140 | 0.9037 | |
| 35 | Stanford University | 14800 | 71300 | 0.792 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
| 36 | Case Western Reserve University | 14900 | 80400 | 0.8142 | 6,528 | 1485 | 0.3778 | |
| 37 | Northeastern University | 15500 | 89900 | 0.8279 | 22,695 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 38 | Florida State University | 15800 | 23100 | 0.3159 | 32,711 | 1360 | 0.2422 | |
| 39 | Coastal Carolina University | 16300 | 27200 | 0.4016 | 10,811 | 1145 | 0.7527 | |
| 40 | Lamar University | 16400 | 22900 | 0.2835 | 8,206 | 1045 | 0.857 | |
| 40 | The University of Texas at Tyler | 16400 | 24900 | 0.3409 | 7,683 | 1120 | 0.9402 | |
| 42 | Northwestern University | 17000 | 89500 | 0.8104 | 8,846 | 1513 | 0.0722 | |
| 43 | University of South Florida | 17100 | 17100 | 0 | 38,525 | 1239 | 0.4319 | |
| 44 | Bucknell University | 17600 | 88400 | 0.8007 | 3,920 | 1284 | 0.2893 | |
| 45 | Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | 18200 | 18200 | 0 | 34,242 | 1273 | 0.7333 | |
| 46 | University of South Alabama | 18300 | 22400 | 0.1834 | 9,241 | 1140 | 0.7096 | |
| 46 | University of Southern California | 18300 | 76000 | 0.7592 | 21,023 | 1485 | 0.1002 | |
| 48 | University of Rhode Island | 18400 | 34400 | 0.4649 | 14,376 | 1148 | 0.7216 | |
| 49 | University of Louisville | 18500 | 29100 | 0.3646 | 17,086 | 1148 | 0.7941 | |
| 50 | Kansas State University | 19000 | 28800 | 0.3399 | 15,650 | 1164 | 0.8199 | |
| 51 | Brigham Young University | 19100 | 29000 | 0.3411 | 32,221 | 1374 | 0.6919 | |
| 51 | McNeese State University | 19100 | 29200 | 0.3463 | 5,560 | 1110 | 0.6755 | |
| 53 | University of Illinois Chicago | 19400 | 30300 | 0.3594 | 22,495 | 1252 | 0.7735 | |
| 53 | University of Missouri-Columbia | 19400 | 36900 | 0.4748 | 24,457 | 1256 | 0.7847 | |
| 55 | Youngstown State University | 19500 | 29300 | 0.3341 | 8,436 | 1065 | 0.8066 | |
| 56 | University of Mississippi | 19800 | 27000 | 0.2666 | 21,585 | 1182 | 0.9658 | |
| 57 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 20100 | 38800 | 0.4812 | 36,588 | 1367 | 0.6535 | |
| 58 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 20400 | 43700 | 0.5336 | 31,035 | 1366 | 0.5499 | |
| 59 | Tufts University | 20600 | 92400 | 0.7774 | 7,126 | 1507 | 0.1153 | |
| 60 | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | 20800 | 30000 | 0.3071 | 13,179 | 1110 | 0.8883 | |
| 60 | West Virginia University | 20800 | 23300 | 0.1073 | 18,614 | 1125 | 0.778 | |
| 62 | Western Michigan University | 20900 | 32300 | 0.353 | 13,860 | 1104 | 0.846 | |
| 63 | University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown | 21200 | 30300 | 0.3 | 1,809 | 1109 | 0.9484 | |
| 64 | University of Georgia | 21300 | 27100 | 0.2113 | 31,514 | 1336 | 0.3719 | |
| 65 | University of Florida | 22200 | 43700 | 0.4915 | 36,567 | 1399 | 0.242 | |
| 66 | University of South Carolina-Columbia | 22900 | 22900 | 0 | 30,187 | 1292 | 0.6015 | |
| 66 | Washington State University | 22900 | 36800 | 0.3783 | 14,346 | 1139 | 0.8797 | |
| 68 | University of New Mexico-Main Campus | 23000 | 27500 | 0.1618 | 17,771 | 1044 | 0.7933 | |
| 69 | University of Houston | 23600 | 23600 | 0 | 39,257 | 1249 | 0.7392 | |
| 70 | University of Minnesota Duluth | 23700 | 29800 | 0.2047 | 8,426 | 1235 | 0.8876 | |
| 71 | New York University | 23800 | 91800 | 0.7405 | 29,060 | 1520 | 0.0923 | |
| 72 | Ohio University-Main Campus | 23900 | 24500 | 0.0244 | 19,888 | 1209 | 0.8517 | |
| 73 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 24200 | 71600 | 0.6623 | 3,135 | 1299 | 0.5493 | |
| 74 | Miami University-Oxford | 24600 | 27200 | 0.0954 | 16,816 | 1299 | 0.754 | |
| 74 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 24600 | 32200 | 0.2359 | 10,200 | 1346 | 0.6507 | |
| 76 | University of Rochester | 24900 | 93100 | 0.7328 | 6,580 | 1469 | 0.4008 | |
| 77 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion | 25000 | 36600 | 0.3173 | 65,450 | 1203 | 0.8989 | |
| 77 | University of Akron Main Campus | 25000 | 25000 | 0 | 11,160 | 1069 | 0.5967 | |
| 79 | Montana State University | 25100 | 31400 | 0.2006 | 15,053 | 1184 | 0.8214 | |
| 80 | Dordt University | 25300 | 52300 | 0.5161 | 1,695 | 1195 | 0.7116 | |
| 81 | Michigan State University | 25800 | 28900 | 0.1089 | 41,234 | 1223 | 0.848 | |
| 81 | University of Arkansas | 25800 | 27700 | 0.068 | 28,859 | 1179 | 0.7431 | |
| 83 | University of Kansas | 25900 | 42000 | 0.3831 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 84 | Tuskegee University | 26000 | 42100 | 0.3828 | 2,400 | 1030 | 0.3143 | |
| 85 | University of Delaware | 26500 | 32500 | 0.1847 | 19,119 | 1303 | 0.6356 | |
| 86 | Trine University | 26800 | 56100 | 0.5224 | 4,157 | 1209 | 0.8469 | |
| 86 | University of Arizona | 26800 | 35200 | 0.2384 | 45,025 | 1212 | 0.8614 | |
| 88 | Colorado School of Mines | 26900 | 38100 | 0.2943 | 5,852 | 1396 | 0.596 | |
| 89 | Clemson University | 27200 | 37100 | 0.2662 | 23,401 | 1343 | 0.3834 | |
| 89 | Iowa State University | 27200 | 41500 | 0.3453 | 25,628 | 1207 | 0.8866 | |
| 89 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 27200 | 83600 | 0.6749 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 92 | Christian Brothers University | 27700 | 54600 | 0.4926 | 1,155 | 1110 | 0.867 | |
| 92 | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology | 27700 | 31600 | 0.1229 | 2,170 | 1264 | 0.8525 | |
| 94 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 27900 | 78300 | 0.6438 | 17,901 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
| 95 | University of Maryland-Baltimore County | 28000 | 40300 | 0.3053 | 10,767 | 1326 | 0.7243 | |
| 95 | University of Tulsa | 28000 | 62700 | 0.5537 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.615 | |
| 97 | Cleveland State University | 28100 | 37300 | 0.2468 | 9,418 | 1005 | 0.913 | |
| 97 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | 28100 | 36700 | 0.2327 | 41,303 | 1338 | 0.7975 | |
| 97 | Villanova University | 28100 | 88800 | 0.6834 | 7,006 | 1457 | 0.2698 | |
| 100 | California State University-Long Beach | 28200 | 38400 | 0.266 | 35,843 | 1135 | 0.4628 | |
| 100 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 28200 | 41900 | 0.3269 | 42,604 | 1336 | 0.6056 | |
| 102 | University of Alabama in Huntsville | 28300 | 28300 | 0 | 6,800 | 1245 | 0.6857 | |
| 103 | Oregon State University | 28900 | 36700 | 0.2125 | 31,253 | 1272 | 0.773 | |
| 104 | Lehigh University | 29000 | 85700 | 0.662 | 5,911 | 1436 | 0.2593 | |
| 104 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 29000 | 55800 | 0.4804 | 23,181 | 1354 | 0.3296 | |
| 106 | Clarkson University | 29100 | 78000 | 0.6271 | 2,296 | 1302 | 0.7736 | |
| 106 | University of Utah | 29100 | 32000 | 0.0902 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 108 | University of Toledo | 29700 | 32600 | 0.0885 | 11,013 | 1159 | 0.9202 | |
| 109 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 29900 | 31100 | 0.0385 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 109 | The University of Alabama | 29900 | 29900 | 0 | 34,389 | 1233 | 0.7665 | |
| 111 | University of North Dakota | 30200 | 32500 | 0.0733 | 11,033 | 1150 | 0.769 | |
| 112 | Syracuse University | 30400 | 83100 | 0.6342 | 15,958 | 1363 | 0.4611 | |
| 113 | San Jose State University | 30600 | 41000 | 0.2534 | 28,008 | 0 | 0.8461 | |
| 114 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 30800 | 33100 | 0.0695 | 19,701 | 1214 | 0.8749 | |
| 115 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 30900 | 78100 | 0.6044 | 14,267 | 1363 | 0.6693 | |
| 116 | University of Kentucky | 31000 | 36000 | 0.139 | 25,535 | 1193 | 0.9294 | |
| 117 | North Carolina State University | 31300 | 53000 | 0.4091 | 28,422 | 1335 | 0.4167 | |
| 118 | California State Polytechnic University-Pomona | 31500 | 41100 | 0.2338 | 25,255 | 1134 | 0.737 | |
| 119 | Benedictine College | 32000 | 50800 | 0.3702 | 2,391 | 1229 | 0.7645 | |
| 120 | Hampton University | 32200 | 47000 | 0.315 | 3,728 | 956 | 0.6225 | |
| 121 | Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University | 32600 | 38500 | 0.1533 | 7,890 | 1105 | 0.2056 | |
| 121 | Widener University | 32600 | 75300 | 0.5668 | 2,811 | 1155 | 0.8402 | |
| 123 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 32800 | 34700 | 0.0547 | 30,564 | 1298 | 0.416 | |
| 124 | University of Dayton | 33000 | 64100 | 0.4852 | 7,737 | 1284 | 0.6566 | |
| 125 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 33400 | 54600 | 0.3881 | 12,122 | 1283 | 0.8296 | |
| 126 | University of Cincinnati-Main Campus | 34100 | 35100 | 0.0285 | 33,572 | 1264 | 0.8529 | |
| 127 | Auburn University | 34400 | 34400 | 0 | 27,907 | 1324 | 0.4593 | |
| 127 | The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga | 34400 | 34500 | 0.0029 | 9,982 | 1125 | 0.7702 | |
| 129 | Prairie View A & M University | 34600 | 39600 | 0.1263 | 8,056 | 955 | 0.7441 | |
| 130 | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | 34800 | 74600 | 0.5338 | 2,315 | 1382 | 0.7686 | |
| 131 | University of Nevada-Reno | 35000 | 35000 | 0 | 18,895 | 1134 | 0.7371 | |
| 132 | California Baptist University | 35300 | 65200 | 0.4585 | 8,417 | 1069 | 0.8535 | |
| 132 | Tennessee Technological University | 35300 | 37100 | 0.0508 | 8,838 | 1159 | 0.8316 | |
| 134 | University of Maine | 36200 | 45100 | 0.1974 | 591 | 1199 | 0.9684 | |
| 135 | Missouri University of Science and Technology | 36400 | 56300 | 0.3531 | 5,552 | 1305 | 0.7255 | |
| 136 | Mississippi State University | 36600 | 50500 | 0.2752 | 18,567 | 1214 | 0.7764 | |
| 137 | Texas A&M University-Kingsville | 37700 | 41600 | 0.0933 | 5,187 | 1005 | 0.9229 | |
| 138 | University of New Haven | 38400 | 64900 | 0.4081 | 4,903 | 1180 | 0.6038 | |
| 139 | Kettering University | 38500 | 66900 | 0.4246 | 1,212 | 1204 | 0.7867 | |
| 140 | University of Wyoming | 39000 | 43800 | 0.1114 | 8,130 | 1159 | 0.9688 | |
| 141 | Wayne State University | 39500 | 45500 | 0.1318 | 16,173 | 1174 | 0.7786 | |
| 142 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 39600 | 57800 | 0.315 | 23,920 | 1390 | 0.5973 | |
| 143 | University of New Hampshire-Main Campus | 40200 | 40200 | 0 | 11,365 | 1216 | 0.8816 | |
| 144 | University of California-San Diego | 40700 | 61100 | 0.334 | 34,955 | 1375 | 0.2677 | |
| 145 | Manhattan University | 41200 | 71700 | 0.4252 | 2,928 | 1248 | 0.785 | |
| 146 | University of Connecticut | 41800 | 41800 | 0 | 19,388 | 1324 | 0.5395 | |
| 147 | University at Buffalo | 42700 | 46800 | 0.0876 | 20,360 | 1303 | 0.7418 | |
| 148 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 42800 | 54900 | 0.2206 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 149 | Ohio State University-Main Campus | 43100 | 52100 | 0.1727 | 46,815 | 1339 | 0.6057 | |
| 150 | Purdue University-Main Campus | 43300 | 46200 | 0.0624 | 44,170 | 1327 | 0.4979 | |
| 151 | University of California-Riverside | 43800 | 66400 | 0.3403 | 22,599 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
| 152 | University of Maryland-College Park | 43900 | 52900 | 0.1701 | 31,133 | 1456 | 0.448 | |
| 153 | Florida Institute of Technology | 44500 | 66400 | 0.3298 | 3,677 | 1224 | 0.577 | |
| 154 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 45200 | 57100 | 0.2083 | 23,351 | 1239 | 0.766 | |
| 155 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 48200 | 85700 | 0.4374 | 5,743 | 1438 | 0.6343 | |
| 156 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 50000 | 85800 | 0.4172 | 4,236 | 1445 | 0.4758 | |
| 157 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 50400 | 52300 | 0.0363 | 21,210 | 1171 | 0.9232 | |
| 158 | University of Iowa | 51300 | 53200 | 0.0354 | 22,738 | 1208 | 0.8362 | |
| 159 | Drexel University | 51400 | 82600 | 0.3776 | 13,169 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 160 | University of Colorado Boulder | 51500 | 56300 | 0.0852 | 32,100 | 1290 | 0.8115 | |
| 161 | Texas A&M University-College Station | 52700 | 56100 | 0.0604 | 60,710 | 1278 | 0.5732 | |
| 162 | Rowan University | 53600 | 53600 | 0 | 16,199 | 1214 | 0.783 | |
| 163 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 54000 | 81000 | 0.3331 | 5,558 | 1292 | 0.6016 | |
| 164 | University of California-Irvine | 55200 | 64800 | 0.1481 | 30,204 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
| 165 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 57100 | 58900 | 0.032 | 26,500 | 1183 | 0.8857 | |
| 166 | Howard University | 58300 | 61600 | 0.0536 | 11,519 | 1208 | 0.4134 | |
| 167 | Michigan Technological University | 59100 | 59100 | 0 | 6,022 | 1256 | 0.8353 | |
| 168 | University of California-Berkeley | 74600 | 75500 | 0.0119 | 33,469 | 1407 | 0.1104 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.