<p>I'm still in the college selecting process and I was wondering what would be a good school for a major in science particularly biochemistry.. I was also wondering if biochemistry is a good undergrad major for medical research and if not what else should I consider? And if you could keep the colleges in the northeast but not mandatory....</p>
<p>EVERY school pretty much has a good biology program, as well as a good chem program.</p>
<p>You need to narrow your criteria. Aside from the northeast, what else do you want?</p>
<p>johns hopkins, stanford, caltech (spec bioengineering), MIT, cornell seem to have solid biochem/engineering options in the undergrad year</p>
<p>According to Chronicle ranking, </p>
<h1>1 UCSF (actually a graduate school build for medicine, can't apply here)</h1>
<h1>2 Harvard</h1>
<h1>3 Johns Hopkins</h1>
<h1>4 UPenn</h1>
<p>Chronicle</a> Facts & Figures: Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index</p>
<p>For research, it's more important to find a school with a strong history of undergraduate research than to find a school with an exact certain major. You can major in any biology-related field and go to graduate school to become a research scientist. What is really important for graduate school admissions is that you have a great record of undergraduate research.</p>
<p>I want to eventually end up doing medical research as well. At first I thought I should major in biochemistry but lately I've also been looking into Biomedical Engineering. I also live in the northeast so I'm looking at colleges there. Unfortunately, I'm still kinda on the same page as you and still can't really figure out where to go for this. Here's a list of colleges that I'm sort of considering:</p>
<p>American University
Boston University
Bucknell University
Clarkson University
Clemson University
University of Connecticut
Cornell University
Delaware State University
Delaware Valley College
Hamilton College - NY
Hampshire College
Ithaca College
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Rutgers - New Brunswick, NJ</p>
<p>A lot of them may/may not be top tier schools which is what most people on CC look for, but I'm trying to keep a range. Let me know if you find any others!</p>
<p>Sorry but that list doesn't make much sense. For example, AU would be a fine choice if you were interested in international service, government, political science, etc. It would not be a good choice for biochemistry. Its good to have a range of schools but some places on your list are not known to be strong science schools.</p>
<p>Wisconsin has an outstanding biochemistry program. </p>
<p>About</a> The Department | Biochemistry | UW-Madison</p>
<p>Undergraduate</a> Program | Biochemistry | UW-Madison</p>
<p>New Wisconsin Biochem building this year.</p>
<p>^ Psssh! Berkeley's new Stanley Hall is better... ;)</p>
<p>09.26.2007</a> - Stanley Hall dedication heralds new era of bioscience innovation</p>
<p>In all fairness that is a multi-dept research building--not a biochem dept. building. But it looks nice.
UW is building a separate multi-dept bio research building too. The arms race is on!</p>
<p>Wisconsin</a> Institutes for Discovery: Facility</p>
<p>They also just completed a new Microbial Sciences Building.</p>
<p>Gourman Report ranking for undergraduate biochemistry</p>
<p>Biochem from Gourman
Harvard
MIT
UC Berkeley
Wisconsin
Yale
UCLA
Cornell
UC San Diego
U Chicago
U Illinois
Columbia
U Michigan
U Penn
UC Davis
Brandeis
Northwestern
Princeton
U Iowa
Michigan State
Rice
Case Western
Purdue West Lafayette
Oregon State
NYU
U Oregon
Rutgers New Brunswick
SUNY Stony Brook
U Texas Austin
Iowa State
UC Riverside
Penn State University park
USC </p>
<p>Gourman Report ranking for undergraduate molecular biology</p>
<p>molecular biology
MIT
Caltech
U Wisconsin Madison
UC Berkeley
U Colorado Boulder
Northwestern
UC San Diego
U Michigan Ann Arbor
Harvard
Princeton
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell
U Penn
Purdue
RPI
SUNY Buffalo
U Arizona
U Texas Austin
U Washington
Penn State UP
Vanderbilt
UC Santa Cruz</p>
<p>^ These are good lists. You can't do poorly at any of those listed above.</p>
<p>Of course, I'm biased for Cornell. It offers fantastic undergraduate research opportunities.</p>
<p>Ohkkkk! thanks everyone for your input! It really helped confirm some of my original college choices! [Upenn, Cornell, and JHU]</p>
<p>UC davis or is that bioengineering?</p>
<p>as mentioned above...ucla is outstanding for biochem.</p>
<p>I am seeking information about Biocamistry major in the graduate level. Could anyone tell me some of the top schools? Thank you?</p>
<p>Doug form Florida</p>
<p>Stanford, Cal, Wisconsin and some others.</p>
<p>American University
University of Connecticut
Cornell University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Rutgers - New Brunswick, NJ
Maryland
UNC
Clemson
Michigan
Minnesota
Indiana
Illinois</p>