chem E undergrad------> other engineering field in grad school?

<p>hey, i wanted to know if you can get a chemE in undergrad and then go on to do something like mechE/aerospace/electrical/civil at the phd level? Will schools accept you if your degree is from another discipline? Also, the grades for grad school are typically a 3.2+ GPA right?</p>

<p>Sure why not?</p>

<p>Scroll down to see the graduate programs that Berkeley chemical engineers attend. While obviously most of them are chemical engineering grad programs, other engineering programs also appear.</p>

<p><a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major2006/ChemEngr.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major2006/ChemEngr.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>the charts are great data, thanks!!</p>

<p>Wow I’m kind of surprised & scared that about one-fifth of the graduates were seeking employments…</p>

<p>hmm ok, but won’t they look down on someone with a different degree? I was thinking in the interview/personal statement they might want to know why i didn’t do a degree in the subject i want to go to grad school in…</p>

<p>I can agree that you might have some 'splaining to do. </p>

<p>But that’s relatively easy, for the fact is, people’s professional interests change all the time. You can just say that you’re less interested in your prior field of study and that you’ve found something else more appealing. This is particularly true of undergraduate engineering students. Let’s face it: most incoming college students don’t really know what engineering entails, and certainly don’t know what really differentiates amongst the various engineering disciplines. You can therefore plausibly say that you thought you wanted to be a chemical engineer but now with the advantage of more information, you found other topics more appealing. </p>

<p>Besides, engineering disciplines nowadays tend to be highly interdisciplinary anyway, such that it is often times extremely difficult to distinguish hard boundaries between them. As a case in point, I know one girl who majored in chemical engineering and completed extensive undergraduate research at Berkeley. She wanted to stay for grad school, but the Berkeley ChemE department runs an ‘anti-incest’ policy that specifically bars its own undergrads from being admitted to its grad program. So she simply applied and was admitted to the Berkeley BioE PhD program, where she ended up working under the very same advisor, pursuing the same research agenda, and even keeping the very same lab office deskspace that she had as an undergraduate researcher, and therefore because she didn’t have to spend time finding new advising and could continue her old research, she finished her PhD in a swift 3 years. {The advisor in question had dual appointments with both the ChemE and BioE departments). While her PhD was formally in BioE, it was effectively a ChemE PhD in all but name. But that demonstrates how permeable the boundaries are amongst the various engineering disciplines.</p>