In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Engineering Chemical 2016, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.
| 2016 | 2015 | Institution | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | Score |
| 1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 98.2 | 98.4 | 97.1 | 100.0 | 98.4 |
| 2 | 3 | Stanford University | United States | 88.7 | 95.2 | 98.1 | 99.4 | 93.7 |
| 3 | 2 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 91.7 | 89.3 | 100.0 | 99.1 | 93.3 |
| 4 | 4 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 89.5 | 100.0 | 90.5 | 87.5 | 92.5 |
| 5 | 5 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 85.3 | 95.6 | 90.7 | 94.0 | 90.5 |
| 6= | 7 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States | 87.8 | 85.9 | 97.8 | 89.2 | 88.9 |
| 6= | 14 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 92.5 | 90.0 | 83.3 | 82.6 | 88.9 |
| 6= | 6 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 90.2 | 90.5 | 85.3 | 85.6 | 88.9 |
| 9 | 10 | Kyoto University | Japan | 87.9 | 88.8 | 86.1 | 88.8 | 88.0 |
| 10 | 8= | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 81.4 | 99.3 | 88.0 | 82.6 | 87.9 |
| 11 | 8= | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 83.8 | 92.6 | 86.0 | 88.4 | 87.5 |
| 12 | 11= | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland | 86.7 | 86.7 | 87.2 | 90.9 | 87.4 |
| 13 | 15 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 93.9 | 74.4 | 89.8 | 90.1 | 86.9 |
| 14 | 16 | Princeton University | United States | 90.0 | 80.4 | 89.5 | 82.6 | 85.9 |
| 15= | 20 | Tsinghua University | China | 81.1 | 88.5 | 83.4 | 94.7 | 85.7 |
| 15= | 11= | University of Minnesota | United States | 100.0 | 67.0 | 85.3 | 85.6 | 85.7 |
| 17 | 13 | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 83.4 | 80.6 | 92.0 | 87.9 | 84.5 |
| 18 | 21 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 69.6 | 93.5 | 91.4 | 95.8 | 84.0 |
| 19 | 17 | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | South Korea | 76.5 | 85.7 | 89.9 | 90.1 | 83.3 |
| 20 | 19 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 74.8 | 89.4 | 84.5 | 90.5 | 83.0 |
| 21 | 29= | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States | 77.6 | 83.5 | 88.9 | 89.2 | 82.8 |
| 22 | 24 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 84.4 | 76.8 | 83.7 | 80.9 | 81.5 |
| 23 | 29= | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | 77.1 | 88.1 | 79.9 | 80.4 | 81.3 |
| 24 | 22 | Monash University | Australia | 72.1 | 90.8 | 84.7 | 82.6 | 81.2 |
| 25 | 23 | The University of Queensland (UQ) | Australia | 77.0 | 80.0 | 87.9 | 86.1 | 80.9 |
| 26 | 25 | Yale University | United States | 78.5 | 81.7 | 86.5 | 78.0 | 80.6 |
| 27= | 18 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 73.7 | 90.4 | 83.4 | 74.0 | 80.2 |
| 27= | 31 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 68.7 | 87.4 | 92.9 | 83.6 | 80.2 |
| 29 | 40 | Cornell University | United States | 73.6 | 79.9 | 92.8 | 84.6 | 80.0 |
| 30 | 27 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | Hong Kong | 74.4 | 88.0 | 83.3 | 74.0 | 79.8 |
| 31 | 26 | Northwestern University | United States | 69.2 | 76.0 | 98.6 | 96.5 | 79.7 |
| 32 | 38 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | 82.7 | 73.3 | 81.9 | 78.0 | 79.1 |
| 33 | 28 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW) | Australia | 69.3 | 88.4 | 83.7 | 78.0 | 78.5 |
| 34 | 35 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 69.8 | 84.5 | 82.8 | 83.1 | 78.2 |
| 35 | 36 | Purdue University | United States | 74.8 | 76.7 | 82.5 | 82.6 | 77.7 |
| 36 | 34 | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen | Germany | 72.5 | 78.7 | 84.4 | 81.5 | 77.5 |
| 37= | 39 | Osaka University | Japan | 67.3 | 81.2 | 85.6 | 86.6 | 77.1 |
| 37= | 32= | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 68.4 | 79.5 | 90.0 | 82.6 | 77.1 |
| 37= | 32= | University of Toronto | Canada | 69.3 | 76.7 | 89.8 | 86.1 | 77.1 |
| 40 | 42 | McGill University | Canada | 75.2 | 76.9 | 82.8 | 73.3 | 76.6 |
| 41 | 41 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark | 76.6 | 69.2 | 83.7 | 80.9 | 76.1 |
| 42= | 37 | University of Michigan | United States | 64.2 | 80.4 | 88.8 | 85.6 | 76.0 |
| 42= | 51-100 | Zhejiang University | China | 64.6 | 79.7 | 80.8 | 94.0 | 76.0 |
| 44 | 47 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | 62.7 | 76.7 | 94.8 | 90.1 | 75.8 |
| 45 | 43 | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea | 64.6 | 80.9 | 90.4 | 80.4 | 75.7 |
| 46= | 51-100 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | 61.2 | 87.5 | 79.7 | 84.6 | 75.4 |
| 46= | 51-100 | Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) | Malaysia | 68.0 | 84.8 | 79.4 | 72.6 | 75.4 |
| 48 | 46 | Tohoku University | Japan | 65.6 | 81.5 | 82.5 | 81.5 | 75.3 |
| 49= | 51-100 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 68.6 | 79.1 | 82.6 | 75.4 | 74.9 |
| 49= | 51-100 | University of Delaware | United States | 82.5 | 51.1 | 89.3 | 87.5 | 74.9 |