<p>Hello everybody! I've been find useful information on this website for awhile and finally decided to create an account to ask you guys a question.</p>
<p>I will be entering college next year as a Chemical Engineering major, but I still have not decided on which school yet. I've narrowed my options down to UC Davis, UC San Diego, Georgia Tech, and Tulsa. I was just wondering what your thoughts and opinions were like for each of these schools. I'm guessing Tech is the "obvious" number one with its high rankings and all, but what about these others? What are your opinions on the engineering at UCD and UCSD? Should I be worried that neither UCD or UCSD have dedicated Chemical Engineering departments (ChemE+MatSci for UCD and NanoEngineering for UCSD), or is it not that big of a deal? And is a smaller, less prestigious program at Tulsa a complete negative, or is there some upside to that?</p>
<p>Also, for cost, UCSD and UCD are about 20k, while Tulsa is about 5k less and GT is about 15k more.</p>
<p>Just hoping that you guys will provide some much-needed help to my decision making.</p>
<p>Actually, I’m done looking (and pretty sure I would not have gotten into CalTech). I’ve applied and finally gotten all decisions, so these are the ones I’ve settled on. There were a couple things I got wrong in my first post that I wasn’t able to edit. First, UCSD’s ChemE program is sorta split between the new Nanoengineering Dept and the Mechanical+Aerospace Dept. It’s a little confusing and I wasn’t sure if that was too important or not. Also, I got the costs wrong a little bit in my first post and couldn’t edit it. Should say UCSD and UCD are about 28-30k while Tulsa is about 10k less and GT is about 10k more.</p>
<p>Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Chemical
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
Methodology
1 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 2 University of California–Berkeley <em>
3 Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities * 4 Stanford University (CA)
5 Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison * 6 California Institute of Technology
7 Princeton University (NJ)
8 U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
9 University of Texas–Austin *
10 University of Delaware *
11 Georgia Institute of Technology *
11 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
13 Cornell University (NY)
14 Carnegie Mellon University ¶
15 Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)</em>
16 Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *
17 Texas A&M Univ.–College Station *
**17 Univ. of California–Santa Barbara ***
19 North Carolina State U.–Raleigh *
20 Rice University (TX)
20 University of Pennsylvania
22 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
23 Iowa State University *
23 Northwestern University (IL)
23 University of Notre Dame (IN)
23 University of Virginia *
23 University of Washington *</p>
<p>Basically what I’m asking is how these schools compare in terms of cost vs. academic experience and either career opportunities or grad school chances.</p>
<p>19 University of California–San Diego La Jolla, CA 3.7</p>
<p>34 University of California–Davis Davis, CA 3.4</p>
<p>Since I’m assuming you’re in-state, just go to UCSD and save your parents the money. UC Davis too low in the Engineering rankings compared to SD. Tulsa, never heard of it. And Georgia Tech is too far away; admit rate is pretty high too. Nanoengineering sounds good.</p>
How was chemical engineering for you at UCSD? if you attended, I’m thinking of switching from Aerospace engineering to chemical engineering to try to get closer to bioengineering
@becerraj1016, since this thread closed 5 years ago, there’s very little chance that the original poster will ever see your question. You could PM him/her or start a new thread and ask a question to the general board. Otherwise it’s unlikely you’ll get the answers you seek. Good luck.