<p>Harvard has a nanotech program:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nsec.harvard.edu/[/url]”>http://www.nsec.harvard.edu/</a></p>
<p>Of all places, Waterloo U in Canada received a giant donation from Research in Motion (creators of the Blackberry) with hopes of making Waterloo the premier nanotech school…I don’t go to Waterloo, BTW-I read about it in the Economist…Supposedly RIM is trying to create a homebase for Nanotech research so they can reap the rewards of a local talent pool, i.e. Waterloo’s program is designed to have practical, marketable application.</p>
<p>A good proxy for schools that would be good for nanotechnology might be those with outstanding chemistry departments (at least as a first screen). I copied this list compiled by user Alexandre in a forum dedicated to that topic. Of course, a lot of these schools are correspondingly good in physics, biology, and engineering.</p>
<p>The way I would rank the top graduate programs in Chemistry:</p>
<p>IN A LEAGUE OF ITS OWN
University of California-Berkeley</p>
<p>EXCEPTIONAL
California Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University</p>
<p>VERY GOOD
Columbia University
Cornell University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University</p>
<p>GOOD
Indiana University-Bloomington
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University
Purdue University-West Lafayette
Princeton University
Rice University
Texas A&M
University of California-Irvine
University of California-San Diego
University of California-Santa Barbara
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester
University of Texas-Austin
University of Washington</p>
<p>I am sure I am missing a couple, but it’s a good start. You obviously want took at each department closely to see which one fits your interests and your needs the best.</p>
<p>I know for a fact that Polytechnic Univ. Brooklyn offers it. It says so right on the dean’s app. i got from them. “Polytechnic’s laboratories conduct cutting-edge research in the areas of bioengineering, nanotechnology and information technology.” Great school too, I might go there if i don’t get accepted to RPI or RIT.</p>
<p>BedHead,</p>
<p>The list Alexandre put up for chemistry is rather outdated. Northwestern’s chemistry should at least belong to “very good” (upward trend in recent years and #9 as of 2006, according to US News) while some of the “very good” should move down. Also, nanotech is a multi-disciplinary field; I personally would use chemistry AND material science as the first screen.</p>
<p>Undergrad enducation is not that important, you focus your studies in grad school. Chemical engineering, material sciences, or chemistry can all lead to a focus in nanotech (I think the first two are more specifically experimental work, while chemistry tends to lead to more theoretical work), and any school good in chemistry, material science, or chemical engineering tends to have some promising nanotech labs to work in.</p>
<p>yeah I don’t know if any undergrad offers a “major” called nanotech, I think you can fit in under EE or Comp E or CS or something like that.</p>
<p>Maryland has a really good nanotech program with lots of research. Small Times rank U of Maryland #1 in nanotechnology in both Research & Education. <a href=“http://www.ece.umd.edu/News/05_05_20_small_times.html[/url]”>http://www.ece.umd.edu/News/05_05_20_small_times.html</a></p>
<p>it’s probably the cheapest place for the best if you live in Maryland.</p>
<p>Maybe this is of interest to you guys?</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology_education[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology_education</a></p>
<p>Anyway, I am also looking for an undergraduate degree (minor) in nanotech and something in business (like finance) that would support it. I don’t know how this much this will help me.</p>
<p>The thing about nanotech is this:
It is really new and has a lot of potential. If I major in nanotech then get a masters in it and by that time, it has not crossed the barrier to go commercial bigtime, you’re pretty much screwed and will end up into research. (to me at least)</p>
<p>Comments?</p>
<p>I searched Wikipedia extensively but never found that. Thanks august’s</p>
<p>As others have noted, nanotechnology is rarely an undergraduate major. It’s almost akin to saying that you’re majoring in neurosurgery. You specialize <em>after</em> you’ve mastered the basics by majoring in, say, bioengineering. Still, you might be able to take courses/seminars in nanotechnolgy even if there’s no major. The major engineering schools will probably offer a course or two on the topic. That might be enough for you since you say you’re really interested in business, not in research.</p>
<p>I highly recommend looking into schools that are strong in business AND in engineering and chemistry. Cornell, Penn, and Lehigh come to mind, but I’m sure there are many, many others.</p>
<p>The Small Times ranking is horribly done. It doesn’t rank schools that don’t respond. As a result you have peer rankings in nano- and micro-technology with the usual suspects at the top: MIT, Berkeley, Cornell, Stanford, Northwestern in approximately that order across a variety of fields. But you have a much different set of rankings from the self-reported data. Look at the rankings for states: California does very well across all measures, largely 'cause of Berkeley and Stanford and also UCLA and CalTech.</p>
<p>This is not to say U. Maryland would not be tremendous value for excellence, but be careful of the rankings.</p>
<p>Thanks Again Guys.</p>
<p>Over the summer, I worked at a nanotechnology type lab in Rutgers-Newark.</p>
<p>Almost every research university has a nanotch center these days, it seems. For example:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.umass.edu/massnanotech/[/url]”>http://www.umass.edu/massnanotech/</a></p>
<p>For what it’s worth - Northwestern has an Institute for Nanotechnology.</p>
<p><a href=“International Institute for Nanotechnology - Advancing Nanotechnology Research and Education”>International Institute for Nanotechnology - Advancing Nanotechnology Research and Education;
<p>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute…big into this/biotechnology</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.rpi.edu/research/nanotechnology.html[/url]”>http://www.rpi.edu/research/nanotechnology.html</a></p>
<p>Are there any decent ones in England (or Europe in General) that offer Nano-Biotechnology ?</p>
<p>i’m looking at nanotech, too, and any school with a decent materials science program (rpi, lehigh, cornell, mit, etc) has a department, but not as far as i’ve seen a major, for nanotech. personally i’m looking foe mat sci double biosomething. </p>
<p>if you’re just looking to ride the business trend, i don’t recomend trying the hardcore sciences of it. Here’s a link i found explaining what a nanotech major would encompass: <a href=“http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=1649[/url]”>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=1649</a> it’s all hard science. Now, lehigh supposedly has a very good business/engineering crossover program which is designed for people who want to market new technologies but arn’t into the science (or at least the math) of developing them. hope this helps. good luck</p>
<p>hey, i did find a list of colleges: <a href=“Foresight Institute - Catalyzing Transformative Technologies - Foresight Institute”>Foresight Institute - Catalyzing Transformative Technologies - Foresight Institute;
the list is towards the bottom.</p>
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<p>“In a league of its own”…love that…;)</p>