<p>What are the differences between chemical and biological engineering, and plain old chemical engineering? How does it pertain to job opportunities, possible grad school, etc.?</p>
<p>Are you going to Poly? It’s the same thing, with a bio class or two added. It really depends on what school your talking about, and its specific program. As far as a job, it’ll look the same.</p>
<p>I think that’s a valid point. At many schools, ChE and ChBE are basically the same. When Georgia Tech introduced it’s ChBE degree, the only difference was to make Biology I a requirement instead of an elective.</p>
<p>Later, they separated the degrees to have a “traditional” ChBE (basically ChE + a biology class) and a “biotechnology” ChBE (7 different biotechnology, biomaterials, and biochemistry classes). </p>
<p>So initially, ChBE and ChE were basically the same degree, employers treated them the same, and grad schools treated them the same. Later when when the degrees were differentiated, employers and grad schools treated them differently. So the point is, the different depends on your school and how they treat the degrees (and even then it can change over time).</p>
<p>Thanks guys.</p>
<p>The school I was looking at was CU Boulder. From what I can see, they have the exact same curriculum through the first two years, then there seems to be more bio classes and fewer chem electives. There is one thing that concerns me though. On their website it says that Chemical and Biological Engineering is not ABET accredited as of yet. Is that a big problem? Would one be better served by just doing Chem Engineering with an emphasis on bio?</p>
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