<p>What are the best chemical engineering schools in California or cheap out of state schools? Other than Caltech because I can't get into that school.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
<p>UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, Stanford. Not many schools have chemical engineering. It is a rather specialized major.</p>
<p>The total list of ABET-accredited chemical engineering degree programs in California includes:</p>
<p>7 UCs (B, D, I, LA, R, SD, SB)
3 CSUs (SLO, P, SJ)
3 private (Caltech, Stanford, USC)</p>
<p>Cheap out of state good in chemical engineering? University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.</p>
<p>Cool UCSB is in my zone I could probably get in… would it being specialized be a disadvantage? Would it be harder or easier than the other engineering majors to get in?</p>
<p>I say it is about the same in terms of admission as other engineering majors. However, I have read many posts on CC that say that chemE is often the hardest major on campus. If you can tough out the classes then chemE majors have some of the highest salaries after graduation though.</p>
<p>Well I could tough out classes but I’m not going to lie and say I’m an absolute genius. And judging on how smart people are on here that kind of scares me… once your in the engineering department and you absolutely can’t do it is it easy to switch? I mean I’m passionate about it but I can’t be too sure I will pass it.</p>
<p>At UCs, it is probably easier to switch out of the engineering division than it is to switch into the engineering division, or switch to a different engineering major. But check each school to be sure. Note that Berkeley has a College of Chemistry, which contains only three majors (chemical engineering, chemistry, and chemical biology) and is a separate division from its College of Engineering (which has all of the other engineering majors).</p>