Chemical Engineering

Hey guys! I am a current highschool junior. I want to major in chemical engineering, and I was told Johns Hopkins was good for Chemical Engineering. However, it doesn’t appear in the Chemical Engineering rankings(not even top 20). Why is that so? Is JHU any good for ChemE?

I’ve seen some rankings having it in the top 20. On their web their graduate program is ranked 20th. Can’t go wrong with John Hopkins

  1. You will be fine with Engineering at Hopkins. 2. For the most part don’t worry about rankings and visit the engineering school itself.

You will need to find the right fit for you. You will see a difference in some schools that show up on a ranking list but you may not care for the school or the engineering program, while on the flip side you may really like the engineering program at a particular school that is not highly ranked.

Unless something has changed since the Stone Age, which I hope, ChemE at JHU used to lack rigor. There are much better choices. Search CC. There are quite a few threads.

@PossePops it must have changed. My daughter is a junior ChemBE and it has a reputation for being a difficult major. Also one of the majors that many drop (quite a few people she knows switched to straight Chem after a semester or two).

I hope so. The first two years of Chem and ChemE used to be pretty similar. Even a barely rigorous ChemE curriculum makes most non technical ones seem pretty easy. It’s brutal but there are levels of brutality. Think slow torture to death vs putting someone out of their misery. The Bio portion likely adds some tortuous depth.

What do you want to do with your chem e degree? If you want to go into biomedical, pharm R&D type industries, or use chem e to apply to med schools, JHU is fabulous. If you want to go into the petroleum, polymers, material science type industries… there are probably stronger programs, mainly because of their industry connections.

One of the issues my dd had with JHU was with their career placement.