2018年QS世界大学排名已正式发布，QS世界大学排名被视为目前世界最具影响力的排名之一，本次排名涵盖46个不同学术领域的11000余个位次，是目前为止最大规模也是最复杂的大学排名。其专业排名自2011年以来每年发布，排名主要依据学术声誉、雇主声誉和科研影响力三方面。不同学科排名方法不同，反映出不同的关注重点和数据可用性。
| 2018年QS世界大学排名——化学工程专业 | |
| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2 | Stanford University |
| 3 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 4 | University of Cambridge |
| 5 | Kyoto University |
| 6 | University of Oxford |
| 7 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 8 | Imperial College London |
| 9 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 10 | The University of Tokyo |
| 11 | Tsinghua University |
| 12 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| 13 | Princeton University |
| 14 | KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology |
| 15 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) |
| 16 | Seoul National University |
| 17 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 18 | Delft University of Technology |
| 19 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 20 | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 21 | University of Minnesota |
| 22 | The University of Manchester |
| 22 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 24 | Monash University |
| 24 | The University of Queensland |
| 26 | Yale University |
| 27 | The University of Melbourne |
| 28 | Northwestern University |
| 28 | Purdue University |
| 30 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 31 | Cornell University |
| 32 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 33 | University College London |
| 34 | Osaka University |
| 35 | University of Delaware |
| 36 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) |
| 37 | National Taiwan University (NTU) |
| 38 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
| 39 | University of Toronto |
| 40 | University of Michigan |
| 41 | Zhejiang University |
| 42 | Universiti Malaya (UM) |
| 43 | Korea University |
| 43 | McGill University |
| 43 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| 46 | RWTH Aachen University |
| 46 | Tohoku University |
| 48 | Technical University of Denmark |
| 49 | Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) |
| 49 | The University of Hong Kong |
