<p>I know the title seems contradictory but are there any decent Chemical Engineering schools that focus on Undergrads and have small class sizes?</p>
<p>I'm dreaming, aren't I?</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd in California</p>
<p>in honesty, you really have quite a few options. the cutoff for universities on my list was around 10000 total students (undergrad and grad).</p>
<p>liberal arts colleges to consider:
bucknell
lafayette
harvey mudd (should probably be with the engineering schools)</p>
<p>engineering schools:
cooper union
rose-hulman</p>
<p>smaller universities:
caltech
carnegie mellon
johns hopkins
illinois inst of tech
lehigh
mit
princeton
rice
rochester
rpi
stevens inst of tech
tufts
tulane
villanova
wpi</p>
<p>like curious said, Harvey Mudd. If you have got the stats and are serious about being a scientist, it may be the perect fit</p>
<p>ericatbucknell gave you a good list. Which one you can get into will depend on your stats.</p>
<p>How about Olin? They purport to offer liberal arts as one of their 'triangle' curriculum model (the others being engineering education and business/entrepreneurship) but I'm unclear what that means in practice.</p>
<p>Mudd and Olin don't quite concentrate on the stuff I'm looking at (Biotech). Thanks for the list Eric!</p>
<p>Caltech is an LAC-like school in terms of size. Clarkson. Bucknell. Gettysburg. Lafayette. Lehigh. Rice. Washington and Lee.</p>
<p>You should abandon your interest in a small college for ChemE and go to U Maryland College Park. Great for ChemE. Or U Delaware is excellent.</p>
<p>Rose-Hulman</p>
<p>I personally can't say enough about Rose, of course that's probably because I go there and am an RA there. If you want to know more about Chem-E I can get you in contact with students or profs, they're all pretty cool.</p>
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<p>Why?</p>
<p>Thanks, I'll look into it zekis.</p>
<p>The engineering resources are better at a larger university.</p>
<p>Are you sure Harvey Mudd offers ChemE?</p>
<p>It doesn't. I didn't know about the resources being better at large universities. How exactly? Is it the Research, faculty and other stuff? What would be your cut-off in that case?</p>
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<p>HMC only offers a general degree in Engineering. However, you can pick your classes so that you specialize in one engineering discipline.</p>
<p>If the classes are specialized, then why not give you a degree in that specialization? Seems rather pointless to me...</p>
<p>Because in addition to the specialization, the student has the full set of general engineering skills. It's not like you choose between a general or chemical degree, if you go to Harvey Mudd and want to specialize in ChemE, it'd be both</p>
<p>Swarthmore College is one of the few true LACs that offers a degree in engineering, however, you'll have to look into whether or not they have Chemical Engineering (I rather doubt it, but I'm not 100% sure).</p>