| "People in this thread are talking about how great Arizona is but why aren't they even ranked for undergraduate chemistry research. Research in this field is extremely important"
I'm not sure what you mean by "undergraduate chemistry research." If you want to know about how good the research opportunities are, then just look at the grad school rankings. There are no rankings for research on undergraduate chemistry education. Rankings in undergraduate chemistry programs have nothing to do with research in education. (If there was, U. of Wisconsin would be #1 as it is the place where the Journal of Chemical Education is published.) The only difference in graduate vs. undergraduate rankings in chemistry is probably the quality of the student body. I don't know why Arizona wouldn't be ranked in the Gourman Report.
I don't know its ranking in every subfield, but I do know Arizona a top 10 school in analytical chemistry. Graduate rankings will tell you the quality of the faculty (at least in terms of their research,) how cutting edge the research you might do as an undergrad, the quality of the facilities, and also how much pull recs will have for grad school (because the faculty members are respected.) There might be a loose correlation to rigor in the classroom, but this is probably more closely tied to the intelligence of the student body. |