Northeastern Chemistry Department

neuchimie
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:08:18 +0000

The chemistry department at Northeastern is amazing. The faculty is pretty good, and the advisor is incredible. Plenty of people do undergraduate research; my best friend worked in the organic chemistry lab of the department chair last summer, which was the summer after her freshman year. Co-ops are everywhere, and Boston is a really good city to study chem in because of how many chem and biotech companies there are in the area. I know a lot of people at pharm companies and some at materials chemistry. NEU also has the combined BS/MS program for chemistry, which you can do in 5 years with three coops if you come in with some AP credit.

But it’s up to you. Go talk to the advisor and some faculty. I think the department is one of the best in the university, and yet I still transfered out of it cause I realized I didn’t want to do chemistry anymore (even though I was certain before). So don’t just choose a school because of one department, choose because of the overall feel for the whole university.