Chem B.S. go to ChemE for grad? chance?

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<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>I am a freshman major in chem and minor in CS. My college does not have an engineering school. Yet transfer is not good option for me, coz i'm having financial aid here.BTW I'm an international, so pre-health track won't work for me.</p>

<p>I wanna to work in industry. But seems all chemists are doing endless post-doc now, i've been worrying about unemployment and poverty these days. Is there a chance of switching to chemE, with a better job perspective, when entering the grad school?</p>

<p>I'm going to have LA+DE in maths and ACS certificated B.S. in college. I also plan to take the graduate course of thermodynamics and take polymer science& engr courses at a nearby institute (and will still miss fluid mechnics plus heat&mass transfer though). Will that help me in applying for a chemE MS, or even phd? I just wanna to pay less...</p>

<p>If directly applying for chemE degrees is too difficult, can i apply to chem phd, and choose the area more related to engr, MSE, etc.? </p>

<p>Thank for any advice! I'm really nervous about future employment.</p>

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<p>I’d look at the websites of a few ChemE grad schools you’re interested in and see what they say; I’m guessing the answer is yes (when I was considering switching from physics to engineering for grad school a while ago I looked up a number of different engineering departments at top schools and it looked like a physics degree was usually fine). You may want to take some additional classes in other departments if you think it’s relevant, and definitely don’t skip pchem if your university would allow you to do that.</p>

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<p>The answer is probably yes, but expect to take a couple undergraduate engineering courses when you get there. I recently spoke with representatives from a nuclear engineering grad program and I asked them if a physics major could get into the program, and that was the answer they gave me.</p>