<p>Apart from MIT and Caltech.</p>
<p>I don't mind the location (honestly, I'm in the middle of nowhere and willing to move anywhere...).</p>
<p>Private Universities:</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
UPenn
Columbia
Rice
Northwestern
Chicago
Cornell
Dartmouth
Brown</p>
<p>LAC:
Harvey Mudd
Williams College
Shwarthmore</p>
<p>Public Universities:</p>
<p>UC Berkeley
Michigan
UVa
UCLA
UNC
W&M</p>
<p>I would add two publics for chemistry – UIUC and UWashington. Both have fantastic grad programs in chem, though I know nearly nothing about their undergrad programs.</p>
<p>IMO, the most important thing is access to undergraduate research. A strong research background will help you beyond great grades, great GREs, or a great school when you want to either be hired for a job or accepted into a graduate program. Plus, I think that doing research is the only way to learn what it truly means to be a scientist and without that experience you’ll have no sense of whether it is for you.</p>
<p>I think that you have a pretty good list going. I would add the University of Wisconsin- birthplace of Vitamin D and ranked in the top 7 in chemistry according to the US News
[Rankings</a> - Chemistry - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-chemistry-schools/rankings]Rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-chemistry-schools/rankings)</p>
<p>Sounds, you were a HS senior back in 2004-05; where did you end up? Are you thinking of grad school now?</p>
<p>If someone is interested in research or academia, consider for undergrad:</p>
<p>
Percent of PhDs per grad
Academic field: Bio and Health Sciences</p>
<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees:
ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database</p>
<p>Number of Undergraduates:
ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database</p>
<p>Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000 graduates over the ten year period </p>
<p>1 California Institute of Technology 5.4%
2 Reed College 4.8%
3 Swarthmore College 4.4%
4 University of Chicago 3.3%
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3.1%
6 University of California-San Francisco 3.1%
7 Harvard University 3.0%
8 Kalamazoo College 3.0%
9 Harvey Mudd College 2.9%
10 Earlham College 2.8%
11 Johns Hopkins University 2.7%
12 Princeton University 2.6%
13 Haverford College 2.6%
14 Mount Holyoke College 2.6%
15 Yale University 2.5%
16 Rice University 2.5%
17 Lawrence University 2.5%
18 Carleton College 2.5%
19 Stanford University 2.5%
20 Oberlin College 2.4%
21 Cornell University, All Campuses 2.4%
22 Grinnell College 2.3%
23 Hendrix College 2.3%
24 Bryn Mawr College 2.1%
25 Bowdoin College 2.1%
26 Wellesley College 2.1%
27 Amherst College 2.1%</p>
<p>Academic field: Chemistry </p>
<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees: 1994 to 2003 from NSF database </p>
<p>Enrollment from 2004 USNews </p>
<p>Formula: PhDs divided by undergrad enrollment times 1000 </p>
<p>1 Harvey Mudd College 100
2 California Institute of Technology 42
3 Wabash College 38
4 Reed College 30
5 Carleton College 30
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 27
7 Bowdoin College 26
8 Grinnell College 24
9 Haverford College 24
10 Franklin and Marshall College 22
11 College of Wooster 22
12 Bryn Mawr College 19
13 Allegheny College 18
14 College of William and Mary 18
15 Texas Lutheran University 18
16 Furman University 17
17 University of Minnesota - Morris 17
18 Knox College 17
19 Occidental College 17
20 University of Chicago 16
21 Bates College 15
22 Rice University 15
23 Juniata College 15
24 Kalamazoo College 15
25 Williams College 15
26 Swarthmore College 15
27 Oberlin College 15
</p>
<p>Wisconsin–top 10 for Chemistry and biochemistry.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins is the sciences mecca.</p>
<p>Nice glaring omission of WUSTL there.</p>
<p>WUSTL not ranked high in Chemistry (43). Good in bio.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is ranked 74th in chemistry, and below WUSTL in bio.</p>
<p>Well goodie. I was only addressing the one particular comment. Dartmouth will have to speak for itself.</p>
<p>A lot of the listed schools are great in biology but weaker in chemistry. The two don’t go hand in hand. Bio in general will be strong at the vast majority of academically strong colleges given its popularity and consequently large departmental size (commonly a top 3 major).</p>
<p>Chemistry is generally much less popular and departmental strength varies much, much more.</p>
<p>Glaringly missing from posted lists thus far:</p>
<p>Carleton
Grinnell
Reed
Stanford</p>
<p>Bowdoin has strong Bio and Chem departments</p>
<p>In terms of a liberal arts school.</p>
<p>Stanford 10char</p>
<p>I think RML just listed great schools in general, not really answering the OP’s question about specific fields.
and i definitely think Hopkins and WashU would be up with the ivies for Biology.</p>
<p>For LACs</p>
<p>Carleton, Grinnell, Harvey Mudd, Haverford, Wesleyan</p>
<p>ucsd of course! awesome for bio!!!</p>