<p>He, im a junior, and I am looking to get a PhD in chemistry. Which schools have the best placement into the best programs, essentialy, what are the best chem undergrad programs</p>
<p>There is no best program and there are lots of excellent ones. The key to getting accepted to a top PhD program in chemistry is to get excellent grades, do very well on the GRE and get some research under your belt. If you have those things, they won't really care where you did your undergrad.</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad chemistry ranking:
Caltech
UC Berkeley
Harvard
MIT
Columbia
Stanford
Illimois Urbana Champaign
U Chicago
UCLA
Wisconsin Madison
Cornell
Northwestern
Princeton
Yale
Purdue
UNC Chapel Hill
Ohio State
Texas Austin
Iowa State
Indiana Bloomington
UC San Diego
Minnesota
Notre Dame
Penn State
Brown
U Rochester
Carnegie Mellon
U Penn
Rice
Michigan Ann Arbor
U Washington
Colorado Boulder
Texas A&M
USC
U Pittsburgh
U Florida
UC Riverside
dartmouth
UC Santa Barbara
UC Irvine
Johns Hopkins
UC Davis
U Utah
U Oregon
Duke
Michigan State
RPI
UVA
Florida State
Vanderbilt
Case Western
u Iowa
Georgia Tech</p>
<p>LACs for chemistry from Rugg’s
Amherst
Barnard
Bates
Bowdoin
Bryn Mawr
Bucknell
Carleton
Centre
Colgate
Dartmouth
Davidson
Drew
Franklin and Marshall
Furman
Grinnell
Hamilton
Harvey Mudd
Haverford
Kalamazoo
Kenyon
Lafayette
Lawrence
Mount Holyoke
New College
Oberlin
Occidental
Pomona
Reed
St Olaf
Trinity (TX)
Union
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Wheaton
Whitman
Willamette
Williams</p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/institutionalresearch/reports/PhDProd_F06.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/institutionalresearch/reports/PhDProd_F06.pdf</a>, here are the undergrad schools producing the highest percentages of future PhD recipients in Chemistry:</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd College........................................ # 1
California Institute of Technology........................ # 2
Wabash College............................................... # 3
Reed College................................................... # 4
Carleton College.............................................. # 5
Grinnell College............................................... # 6
College of Wooster........................................... # 7
New Mexico Inst. of Mining and Technology........... # 8
Franklin and Marshall College.............................. # 9
Bowdoin College.............................................. # 10
Texas Lutheran University................................. # 11</p>
<p>Personally, I would think Caltech/MIT simply because they have AMAZING resources, great professors, and a definitely bend toward the sciences (maybe more towards engineering, but the sciences nonetheless.)</p>
<p>Berkeley's a top program if you're in-state.</p>
<p>Berkeley's College of Chemistry is a 6 building mini-campus. It has a small college atmosphere in a large research university setting. The college has only chemistry, chemical biology and chemical engineering majors. The college has top faculty, new facilities, and research opportunities for undergrads. Berkeley has a long history in chemistry...Berkelium, Californium and Seaborgium are chemical elements named for the school and a prof. Plutonium was isolated in a lab in the current chemical engineering building. The place oozes chemistry history.</p>
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College</a> of Chemistry - University of California at Berkeley - College Facts
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<p>"Personally, I would think Caltech/MIT simply because they have AMAZING resources, great professors, and a definitely bend toward the sciences (maybe more towards engineering, but the sciences nonetheless.)"</p>
<p>And how much of these resources do you think undergrads see, let alone utilize?</p>
<p>berekely and stanford were the first two schools that came to my mind when i read the title.</p>
<p>At least at Caltech, undergrads definitely see and utilize everything the school has to offer. If you want to do research, many times you just have to email the professor and ask. I know of several freshmen doing research this summer in chemistry, and at least one is with a recent Nobel laureate.</p>
<p>Check out Northwestern's website. There are plenty of opportunities for undergrad research in the chemistry department, which is ranked #9 by USN. In 2006, two chemistry majors won the Gates Cambridge scholarships.</p>
<p>I think Harvey Mudd would be hard to beat. One of the strongest schools out there, and almost exclusively undergrad focused.</p>