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<p>Things change…</p>
<p>If it makes you feel any better, Sam, all you have to do is look at that 'furd diploma hanging on your wall. ;)</p>
<p>I would choose Northwestern as well, assuming costs are similar.</p>
<p>Here’s the latest 2008 USNWR rankings for undergraduate chemical engineering:
1 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology<br>
2 University of California–Berkeley *
3 Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities *
4 Stanford University (CA)
5 Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
6 California Institute of Technology<br>
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)*
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<br>
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>