BA/BS in Chemical Engineering

Qatar University's Chemical Engineering program is a four-year bachelor's degree preparing entry-level engineers for the country's gas, petroleum, and petrochemical industries, while also covering biochemical, environmental, materials, and consumer-products engineering. The degree totals 131 credit hours: 62 hours of university and engineering-faculty requirements plus 69 hours of chemical engineering coursework, including a capstone project in the final year and a summer industrial-training placement. Students build core knowledge spanning energy and material balances, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, reaction engineering, process control, and plant design, with electives available in gas processing, environmental engineering, petroleum engineering, and polymer engineering. Accreditation comes from ABET's Engineering Accreditation Commission, a recognized endorsement that the program meets internationally accepted quality standards.