<p>to any students at yale, or anyone else who knows, what is the chem department at yale like? Ive heard they have a great faculty.</p>
<p>My daughter loved her professor and her TA in her accelerated intro chem course last semester and, so far, also likes her organic chem professor this semester. She had a blast in her chem lab.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.chem.yale.edu/courses/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.chem.yale.edu/courses/index.html</a></p>
<p>Here are the top programs in chemistry, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education's 2007 ranking (at chronicle.com)</p>
<p>Institution Faculty Scholarly Index Number of faculty</p>
<p>1 Harvard U. 2.16 25</p>
<p>2 Yale U. 1.98 31</p>
<p>3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1.94 43 </p>
<p>4 Northwestern U. 1.92 27</p>
<p>4 U. of California at San Francisco (grad only) 1.92 49 </p>
<p>6 Columbia U. 1.89 35 </p>
<p>7 U. of California at Berkeley 1.86 58 </p>
<p>8 California Institute of Technology 1.83 45 </p>
<p>9 U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1.78 53</p>
<p>10 Stanford U. 1.75 23</p>
<p>These are for departments overall. At the undergrad level, I'd say Caltech, Yale and MIT are the strongest.</p>
<p>Don't take those rankings too seriously. According to them, the University of Georgia has the second best English department in the country. For a more detailed discussion of why these rankings are not particularly useful, check out fscottie's [url=<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=331306&p=3995050%5Dpost%5B/url">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=331306&p=3995050]post[/url</a>] on the subject.</p>
<p>National academy membership in chemsitry</p>
<h1>1 Berkeley (18 members in NAS)</h1>
<h1>2 Caltech (13)</h1>
<h1>3 Harvard (12)</h1>
<h1>3 Stanford (12)</h1>
<p>Columbia (8)
MIT (7)
Cornell (5)
Yale (5)
Princeton (3)</p>
<p>See <a href="http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir/107664768?pg=rslts%5B/url%5D">http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir/107664768?pg=rslts</a></p>
<p>PosterX,</p>
<p>The ranking by Institution Faculty Scholarly Index Number of faculty is highly questionable. According to this method, neither MIT nor Berkeley is ranked in top 10 in engineering. But Yale is #1 in engineering. The result is obviously against common sense.</p>