Best Colleges for Chemical Engineering (or Physics/Chemistry related subs)

College Search & Selection
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<p>Which ones are the best?
If someone can give me a list with rankings that'd be great, thanks! (Doesn't matter if it's a personal one)</p>

2

<p>MIT, UCB, Minnesota and Wisconsin have been ranked in the top 5 for the last 30 years. Stanford has now joined the group.</p>

<p>The University of Delaware is also good with the DuPont connection.</p>

3

<p>Don't forget the specialized schools like RoseHulman and Cooper Union.</p>

4

<p>Does Johns Hopkins provide a good course for physics / chemistry-related subjects, or even biochemistry too? I heard it's a very good medical school, but I'm not sure about the more "chemistry" end...</p>

5

<p>Yes, Hopkins has great programs in all of the subjects you mentioned (probably weakest in Physics) but all the programs at Hopkins are top notch</p>

6

<p>U Minnesota
U Wisconsin
UC Berkeley
Cal Tech
Stanford
U Delaware
MIT
U Illinois U-C
Princeton U Houston
Purdue
Notre Dame
Northwestern
Cornell
U Texas Austin
Stevens Institute of Tech
U Penn
Carnegie Mellon
U Michigan
Rice
U Washington
U Mass Amherst
Iowa State
U Florida
U Rochester
SUNY Buffalo
Penn State U-P
Case Western
U Colorado Boulder
Washington U St Louis
Lehigh</p>

<p>source: Gourman Report Undergraduate
Johns Hopkins was not in the top 50 or so for Chem E</p>

7

<p>Northwestern has top-15 program in both chemistry and chemical engineering (both are 12th in graduate ranking which is mainly reputation score). It's slightly easier to get in than MIT/Stanford and smaller than UCB/Wisc/Minn.</p>

8

<p>if you are extremely into Chem/ science related things, cooper union is your school. That schoo has free tuition and basically dedicates their entire school toward science.</p>

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<p>I don't have the 2006 rankings, but for 2005:
1. MIT
2. Minnesota
3. Berkeley
4. Wisconsin
5. Texas
6. Stanford
7. Delaware / Illinois
9. Michigan
10. Caltech
11. Princeton
12. Georgia Tech
13. Purdue
14. Carnegie Mellon
15. Cornell
16. Northwestern
17. UCSB
18. Texas A&M
19. Penn State, Penn
21. NC State, Ohio State, Rice, Florida</p>

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<p>Keep in mind that the above are rankings of graduate departments. If you're talking about undergrad, then you should not neglect the undergrad-only schools, like RoseHulman, Harvey Mudd, or Cooper Union. I would argue that schools like that may be better for some undergrads than many of the research universities.</p>

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<p>No, those are the undergraduate rankings.</p>

12

<p>I misspoke. What I meant to say is that those are rankings of programs that HAVE graduate departments. Hence, it will obviously neglect those schools that don't have graduate departments.</p>

13

<p>Delaware is VERY well respected in this field and any student considering Chemical Engineering should consider the Univ. of Delaware and the Honors program there.</p>

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<p>I have the 2006 ranking:
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4.8
1. University of Minnesota–Twin Cities 4.8
3. California Institute of Technology 4.7
3. University of California–Berkeley 4.7
5. Stanford University (CA) 4.5
5. University of Wisconsin–Madison 4.5
7. University of Texas–Austin 4.4
8. Princeton University (NJ) 4.3
8. University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 4.3
10. University of California–Santa Barbara 4.2
10. University of Delaware 4.2
12. Georgia Institute of Technology 4.0
12. Northwestern University (IL) 4.0
12. Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN) 4.0
12. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor</p>