Job Opportunities for Chemical Engineering.

Well Chemical Engineering is not as common as mechanical /civil/electrical in terms of no of students and it's true. .Hardly 20000 appear in GATE exam .Therefore this branch has easy future prospects in terms of placements , higher studies. if you consider the Job in chemical engineering field, students ratio is far better than in other core branches.

Now people in India think that engineering is nothing but Mechanical, Software . Civil, Electrical. So if you tell or ask anyone about chemical engineering answers might range from ‘What this ?I didn't know chemical engineering exists’ But think and Look around yourself. If you observe carefully everything that is around you requires chemical engineering. Simply take Toothpaste or Hair oil or anything. Without chemical engineering its impossible to produce all these.

Now if we think like an engineer, Chemical Engineering is just the name of the branch its generally referred as Process Engineering. Now scope of chemical engineering is so vast. It ranges from core Oil and Gas, Mineral processing, Pharma, Polymers to Pollution Control. So opportunities are practically huge. Being chemical engineer opens you to go to any of the sectors. Chemical engineers are required both in Govt (BPCL, ONGC) and Private sectors. Their job profile ranges from Production engineer, Design Engineer etc.

Below are some industries where chemical engineers can work:

Oil & gas :
Indian companies - ONGC, HPCL, BPCL, Reliance Petroleum Ltd., Indian Oil Corporation, GAIL
Non-Indian companies - Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil, BP, Total, Chevron

Chemical processing:
Indian companies - Tata Chemicals, Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd., Aarti Industries
Non-Indian companies - BASF, DowDuPont Inc. (merging of Dow Chemical & Du Pont)

Pharmaceutical:
Indian companies - Cipla, Lupin, Glenmark
Non-Indian companies - Pfizer, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline

Textile:
Indian companies -Bombay Dyeing, Grasim Industries, Century Textiles and Industries Ltd.

Food:
Indian companies - Amul, Brittania Industries
Non-Indian companies - Nestle, PepsiCo

Consumer products:  Like shampoos, detergents, adhesives, paints etc.

Indian companies - Godrej Consumer Products Ltd., Asian Paints, Pidilite Industries
Non-Indian companies - Procter & Gamble, Unilever

Agriculture : Like manufacturing fertilizers, pesticides etc.

Indian companies - GNFC, Coromandel International, UPL, Chambal Fertilisers, Rashtriya Chemicals, Zuari Agro Chemicals, GSFC, NFL, Rallis India
Non-Indian companies - PotashCorp, Yara International, Bayer Crop Science

Engineering services & consulting:
Indian companies - Engineers India Ltd., Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd., Larsen & Toubro Hydrocarbon Engineering
Non-Indian companies - Schlumberger, Linde Engineering, Halliburton, Baker Hughes

Chemical engineering software:
Non-Indian companies - Aspen Technology, Honeywell

Automotive:
Indian companies - Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra
Non-Indian companies - Toyota, General Motors

Nuclear energy:
Indian companies - Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd., Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

Moreover chemical engineers can have very good career in R&D, Teaching. 

This does not end here. Chemical engineer can become very good entrepreneur. There are infinite opportunities like say Mineral Water production, Small scale fertilizers.

You can refer the jobs/careers page of companies to understand the type of roles being offered and skills required.