化学专业为学生提供化学知识方面的职业才能，同时，还开设包括数学、物理和生物在内的辅助性的课程。除了使学生掌握具体科学基础知识外，该专业还培养学生具有判断力的思维、试验技术、解释观察以及清晰表达思维等能力。和出国留学网看看2019QS世界大学化学专业排名TOP50。
| 2019QS世界大学化学专业排名 | |
| 排名 | 学校 |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2 | University of Cambridge |
| 3 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 4 | Stanford University |
| 5 | Harvard University |
| 6 | University of Oxford |
| 7 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 8 | The University of Tokyo |
| 9 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 10 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 11 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) |
| 12 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| 13 | Imperial College London |
| 14 | Peking University |
| 15 | Northwestern University |
| 16 | Kyoto University |
| 17 | Tsinghua University |
| 18 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
| 19 | Seoul National University |
| 20 | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology |
| 21 | University of Toronto |
| 22 | Yale University |
| 23 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 24 | Princeton University |
| 25 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 26 | Fudan University |
| 27 | The University of Manchester |
| 27 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 29 | Osaka University |
| 30 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 31 | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 32 | Technical University of Munich |
| 33 | National Taiwan University (NTU) |
| 33 | The University of Melbourne |
| 35 | University of Michigan |
| 36 | Monash University |
| 37 | Cornell University |
| 38 | McGill University |
| 38 | University of Chicago |
| 40 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 41 | UCL (University College London) |
| 41 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 43 | The University of Sydney |
| 44 | Columbia University |
| 45 | RWTH Aachen University |
| 45 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 47 | Purdue University |
| 47 | University of British Columbia |
| 49 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| 49 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 49 | University of Science and Technology of China |
