<p>What (in your opinion) are the best ChemE schools in the US? I know that many responses maybe be : "check the US News Rankings", or "do some research", and I have but I was just wondering where every college stood on your opinion.</p>
<p>Rankings are really irrelevant for undergrad in my opinion… If it’s ABET accredited and you take advantage of internship opportunities, you’re golden.</p>
<p>This probably is not what you’re looking for, but the best college for ChemE is whatever college you visit and have a real connection to. Yeah, some colleges may have more opportunities or resources, but it comes down mostly to where you think you will thrive the most. You will then be able to learn skills much easier which will be what shows to employers. I received my ChemE degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Honestly, I’ve talked with people from whatever school you can think up. I got the same education there as they did at their school. Will IIT compare as well to employers as say UM-Ann Arbor or UW-Madison? Well, maybe not, but my skills will certainly match.</p>
<p>So do some visiting, talk to some students, and feel out each university. You’ll know where to pick then. This is all assuming that you are college searching…</p>
<p>It also depends on where you look for work. In Chicago, IIT is very well regarded. It is not as well known outside the midwest. The same can be said about a school like Stevens Institute of Technology in the New York area. Bigger schools may have better name recognition over a wider area.</p>
<p>UCSB is!</p>
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<p>For high paying upstream and downstream jobs with big oil companies, look to the gulf, schools such as UT, A&M, UH, Rice, LSU etc. Texas is THE place to be for lots of the top engineering jobs.</p>
<p>U Delaware has a good connection with Dupont and feeds a lot of ChemEs there.</p>
<p>U Mich, Berkeley, Stanford and MIT obviously have good programs as well.</p>
<p>The best schools in any field is the one that pulls the most recruiters or is in the area where you want to work. I don’t know if ChemE has certain areas where there is more of them… But think about it. The job is what counts and as long as it has “ABET” accreditation it is roughly the same program across the board.</p>
<p>I would second Patriots on this, except I have not heard of Georgia Tech or Illinois Institute of Technology so I’m unaware of their program. You don’t hear about those schools in here in Arizona. So they must be more regionally based and famous. IIT is probably well-known in Chicago but like I said, I wouldn’t know because I haven’t heard of it.</p>
<p>Ah! I had no idea! Sounds like a good school to me! <em>thumbs up</em></p>
<p>Would a well-known chemistry program correlate to this also? Or does this not matter so much?</p>
<p>The best (also happens to be the cheapest) public college in the US for Chemical engineering is University of MINNESOTA-Twin Cities. Of course Michigan and Berkeley are up there but they cost 50k+ a year. Minnesota is only 30k a year.</p>
<p>^Additionally, UMN has great connections to 3M, since they’re located right outside St. Paul.</p>
<p>I am gratified that people on this thread have emphatically stated that rankings (i.e. prestige) regarding engineering schools is essentially useless. Like they said, ABET certification is what matters.</p>