good chemical engineering school?

Question

i've decided i want to be a chemical engineer, and i want to go to a really good school, where should i go?

Answer 1

Berkeley, MIT, Cal Tech, University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota. All have top ranked graduate programs in Chemical Engineering. Other good engineering schools include Georgia Tech and any of the other schools in the Big Ten (though WI and MN are the best in the Big 10 for Chem E).

Schools that have great graduate programs aren't always the best places to be if you are an undergraduate, though.

If you want a school with a good undergraduate Chem E program that doesn't have a PhD program in the field, Villanova would be a good school to consider.

You may also want to talk with come chemical engineers before going into the field. All the Chemical Engineers that I know got bored out of their skulls with the work and ended up moving into finance.

Answer 2

If you think you can handle more school, I'd probably go for it. But perhaps I'm biased. . . that's where I've been since I finished *my* BS in ChE. Of course, I'd also suggest you could at least consider fields other than just ChE when looking at programs, too, because some of those use a *lot* of ChE concepts if you get the right type of research project. . . but that's my bias talking again. :) Definitely look at the research options available to you and the types of people you'd be working with -- a good school is nice, but if the research isn't all that interesting to you or your advisor really sucks, you'll hate it. People overlook this all the time thinking that they can put up with anything and that silly stuff like that can't matter, but I've seen people thrive or drop out because of said "silly stuff". It's a quite different ballgame than a BS is. One thing to look out for in terms of research is that there seems to be two different directions with ChE -- some is branching out into other related fields like environmental, medical, etc. applications (the half I personally like), and some is studying the intricacies of well-developed ideas. Anything that's a lot like what you study as an undergrad in terms of general relevance has probably been worked out for decades. I'm not saying that you need to know what you want going in to a grad degree (I never seem to!), but you need to keep in mind what you at least don't want when you're visiting with people at any schools you're interested in. Oh, and take the FE even if your program doesn't require it. Whether you plan to be somewhere you'll need a PE or not, it's still good to do now while you remember everything just in case. Yes, I know it's not a big deal if you're going to end up in a plant -- I'd still do it. The GRE: zzzzz. I studied maybe an hour (yikes, how *does* one do grade-school math by hand?) and did well on it -- really not at all the right type of test for engineering. Engineering grad schools realize this isn't a good test, too. MBAs: eh, that's not real grad school. You may want one of those eventually if you're looking at an industry job, but a lot of employers seem to pay for them.

Answer 3

Colorado School of Mines, right next to the rocky mountains. It's a great school with an awesome location right in Golden, acrossed from Coors brewery.

Answer 4

University of California, Berkeley

Answer 5

Florida A&M it's really good put's out a lot of Engineers.

Answer 6

Uviversity of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (RUM)

Answer 7

Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Answer 8

I think Cornell And Renssalear are great for that stuff

Answer 9

berkely