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Chemical & Process Engineering
Scaling chemistry up: plants, processes, fuels, pharmaceuticals and food production.
Who it suits
IRC
- Thinker: analysing, researching, figuring out why
- Builder: hands-on, tools, machines, outdoors
- Organiser: structure, data, precision
Students here tend to be a bit more organised than average.
Builds on
Chemistry ●●●Mathematics ●●●Physics ●●
Typically offers
High salary · Job security · Working with technology
Where it leads
Process engineer · Chemical engineer · Plant manager · Pharmaceutical engineer
US median earnings, one year after a bachelor’s
$67,835
College Scorecard, US Department of Education
588 programmes tracked
🇺🇸 United States 239🇩🇪 Germany 205🇫🇮 Finland 74🇦🇺 Australia 41🇫🇷 France 12🇦🇹 Austria 11🇨🇭 Switzerland 6
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