Find me a Match School :) [Info inside]

UCBChemEGrad
Tue, 13 May 2008 15:50:34 +0000

I’ll assume ChemE. USNews ranked undergraduate ChemE programs.
Here are the rankings:

Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Chemical
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
1 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
2 University of California–Berkeley *
3 Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities *
4 Stanford University (CA)
5 Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
6 California Institute of Technology
7 Princeton University (NJ)
8 U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
9 University of Texas–Austin *
10 University of Delaware *
11 Georgia Institute of Technology *
11 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
13 Cornell University (NY)
14 Carnegie Mellon University ¶
15 Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)*
16 Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *
17 Texas A&M Univ.–College Station *
17 Univ. of California–Santa Barbara *
19 North Carolina State U.–Raleigh *
20 Rice University (TX)
20 University of Pennsylvania
22 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
23 Iowa State University *
23 Northwestern University (IL)
23 University of Notre Dame (IN)
23 University of Virginia *
23 University of Washington *

Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Chemical
(At schools whose highest degree is a bachelor’s or master’s)
1 Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech. (IN)
2 Rowan University (NJ)*
3 Cooper Union (NY)
4 Bucknell University ¶
5 University of Minnesota–Duluth *
6 Manhattan College (NY)

I’ll give you some advice though as a former ChemE major, engineering is a very market-driven field in terms of starting salaries…you won’t get a bigger starting salary because you graduated from a top-ranked program. Therefore, I wouldn’t worry too much about the rankings…it’s a good starting point, but choose the college for the atmosphere you like better and most importantly - cost.