Master in Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di MILANO is a two-year master's programme taught in English in Milano, Italy. Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with designing, operating, and optimising processes that transform raw materials into useful products, spanning industries such as petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, food processing, materials manufacturing, and environmental treatment. Typical subjects covered in this field include mass and energy balances, thermodynamics, reaction engineering, transport phenomena, process control, and plant design, alongside topics such as sustainable process engineering, biotechnology, and energy transition technologies. At the master's level, students generally move from foundational principles toward more specialised and project-based work, often including process simulation, plant design projects, and a final thesis. Admission to this programme is by entrance examination, and applicants are expected to hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification before enrolling. Graduates of chemical engineering programmes commonly go on to work in process design and plant engineering, research and development, quality and safety management, and consulting roles across the chemical, pharmaceutical, energy, and manufacturing sectors. Some pursue further academic study through doctoral research, while others move into technical management or entrepreneurial ventures built around industrial processes. The discipline's emphasis on systems thinking, quantitative modelling, and problem-solving also opens paths into adjacent fields such as materials science, environmental engineering, and industrial data analysis. Studying chemical engineering in Milano places students in one of Italy's principal industrial and technological hubs, within a university system with a long-standing engineering tradition. Because instruction is delivered in English, the programme is designed to be accessible to an international student body while still situating them within the Italian and broader European engineering community.