<p>I saw on USNews that the U of Minnesota is ranked 3rd in the nation in chemical engineering. This is undergraduate right? Does anyone have any opinion on the accuracy of this? I feel really lucky to live in a state with such a high ranking in a field I'm interested in, but just wanted to get some opinions. </p>
<p>Also, would I have time to take the pre-med courses since CE is such a hard major or would I have to take them anyway? How would my chance of getting in med school compare with other people majoring in biology and such? Thanks.</p>
<p>I don't know anything about specific rankings but it's my understanding that Minnesota is pretty well regarded in engineering. You can probably look at the course outline and the classes required for med school; I'll bet theres a lot of overlap and you can probably fit many of the other ones in as technical electives.</p>
<p>Minnesota has one of the top chemical engineering programs in the world, grad and undergrad. Or at least, the ChemE profs and students at my school seem to think so. The ChemE's I talked to that were/are applying to grad school think very highly of Minnesota.</p>
<p>the reason why I ask is because overall UM isn't very highly ranked (I think #71 on USNews). I know that rankings are sometimes useless, but UM isn't very hard to get into either for such a highly ranked program.</p>
<p>It's pretty hard to get into UM for ChemE grad school... And sometimes, individual programs can be much more phenomenal than the school as a whole. As a (sort of example), look at UIUC, a pretty good school, ranked ~40 or so on USNews, but it has an amazing engineering department that regularly ranks top 5, and has many top 5 and top 10 individual engineering programs. I think GATech is very similar in this regard as well.</p>
<p>Also, are you complaining that it's relatively easy to get into an amazing program?</p>