2025 Best Chemistry Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Chemistry is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #11 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual reviewed 14 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of chemistry. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 478 doctor's degrees in chemistry during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Chemistry School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of chemistry for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality chemistry program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on chemistry students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of chemistry students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt chemistry students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized chemistry related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for chemistry students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Chemistry Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Chemistry Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Chemistry in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in chemistry.

10 Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Doctorate in Chemistry

1

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

33 Annual Graduates

$78,087 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat Johns Hopkins University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in chemistry. Johns Hopkins is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Baltimore.

Doctorate students who receive their degree from the chemistry program earn about $78,087 for their early career.

More information about a doctorate in chemistry from Johns Hopkins University

2

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

14 Annual Graduates

Columbia University in the City of New York is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in chemistry. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in chemistry from Columbia University in the City of New York

3

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

22 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Cornell University if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in chemistry. Cornell is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Ithaca.More information about a doctorate in chemistry from Cornell University

4

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

17 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat University of Rochester if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in chemistry. Located in the midsize city of Rochester, University of Rochester is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in chemistry from University of Rochester

5

University of Delaware
Newark, DE

18 Annual Graduates

$103,167 Median Starting Salary

UD is a very large public university located in the suburb of Newark.

Chemistry doctor's degree recipients from University of Delaware receive an earnings boost of around $24,077 over the average income of chemistry graduates.

More information about a doctorate in chemistry from University of Delaware

6

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

16 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Temple is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in chemistry from Temple University

7

University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

21 Annual Graduates

$85,467 Median Starting Salary

Located in the large suburb of Buffalo, University at Buffalo is a public university with a very large student population.

Those chemistry students who get their doctor's degree from University at Buffalo earn $6,377 more than the standard chemistry graduate.

More information about a doctorate in chemistry from University at Buffalo

8

Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

13 Annual Graduates

Syracuse is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Syracuse.More information about a doctorate in chemistry from Syracuse University

9

New York University
New York, NY

28 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in chemistry from New York University

10

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

20 Annual Graduates

UMCP is a very large public university located in the large suburb of College Park.More information about a doctorate in chemistry from University of Maryland - College Park

Best Chemistry Colleges by State

Explore the best chemistry colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	176	125
New York	174	170
Maryland	119	33
New Jersey	115	45
District of Columbia	81	15
Delaware	53	19

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Rankings in Majors Related to Chemistry

One of 8 majors within the Physical Sciences area of study, Chemistry has other similar majors worth exploring.

Chemistry Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Chemistry	465
Other Chemistry	7
Chemical Physics	3
Environmental Chemistry	3

Most Popular Majors Related to Chemistry

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Physics	414
Geological & Earth Sciences	79
Astronomy & Astrophysics	51
Materials Sciences	47
Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology	26
General Physical Sciences	2
Other Physical Science	2

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.