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Master of Science in Chemical Engineering
With Northeastern University’s Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, you can choose from three concentrations to gain focused knowledge and skills that align with your career interests. Pursue research in cutting-edge areas or dive into topical areas for systems applications in industry. A common computational-based core curriculum gives you important real-world mathematical tools.
Concentrations:
- Chemical engineering principles and applications (research-based)
- Sustainability in chemical engineering (coursework-based)
- Biosystems in chemical engineering (coursework-based)
With highly accomplished faculty, an interdisciplinary curriculum, cutting-edge research, top-ranked co-op program, and a prime location in Boston—a hub of high-tech, biotech, medical institutions, and academia—you’ll be prepared to advance technology to address today’s pressing challenges in biomedicine, energy, security, and sustainability, or continue on to a doctoral program. Non-thesis concentrations can be pursued full-time or part-time.
Department research areas include: biomolecular and biomedical systems; complex and computational systems; energy and sustainability; engineering education and pedagogy; and materials and nanotechnology. Thesis topics can be selected from a diverse range of faculty research interests.
And with our top-ranked co-op program, you'll have the opportunity to gain up to 8 months of professional experience as part of the academic curriculum - giving you a competitive edge upon graduation. Co-op employer partners have included Ambri, Metalor Technologies, Nano-C, and more.
A related master’s programs that may be of interest is the MS in Pharmaceutical Engineering.
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Application deadlines
Domestic students:
- Fall: August 1
- Spring: December 1
International students (within US)
- Fall: July 1
- Spring: December 1
Gain your skills in a research hub.
With a premier location in downtown Boston, research in the department leverages the wealth of collaborations with neighboring universities, hospitals, medical centers, and industry. The department’s research areas include biomolecular and biomedical systems; complex and computational systems; energy and sustainability; engineering education and pedagogy; and materials and nanotechnology. You can select thesis topics from a diverse range of faculty research interests.
Stand out with real-world experience on co-op.
With our top-ranked co-op program, you’ll have the opportunity to gain up to 8 months of professional experience as part of the academic curriculum—giving you a competitive edge upon graduation. Co-op employer partners have included Ambri, Metalor Technologies, Waters Corporation, Nano-C, and more.
About Northeastern
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 320,000-plus alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.