Chemical Engineering

Program Overview

Chemical engineers conceive and design processes for producing, transforming and transporting materials, from laboratory experiments to full-scale production. The program builds the core scientific, mathematical and engineering principles behind them. How competitive: for fall 2025, Stanford admitted 3.8% of its 60,646 first-year applicants; it publishes no separate figure for international applicants. It sets no IB minimum and requires no particular courses, and it requires the SAT or ACT. You apply to Stanford, not to this major: students declare a major by the end of their second year.