<p>What schools are the best for a student who wants to major in chemistry?</p>
<p>if you plan to major in chemistry and plan to later apply to chemistry graduate school (so not med school or law school), then you need to pick schools with strong chemistry departments -- chemistry grad schools know which departments are strong, so if you're graduating from there it is a bonus for you in terms of getting accepted to grad school</p>
<p>some strong chemistry departments are:
UCB, MIT, Caltech, Harverd, Stanford
U of Illinois, Columbia, Cornell, UW-Madison, Northwestern
U of Chicago, UCLA, Princeton, Yale, Penn State
Purdue, U of Penn, U of Michigan, Ohio State, UC San Diego, Texas A&M
U of Colorado-Boulder, J Hopkins, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara
UC Davis, Georgia Tech, U of Arizona, Rice, Duke, Emory, Iowa State
U of Maryland-College Park, U of Virginia, Wash U in St. Louis, U of South California, SUNY</p>
<p>generally chemistry education in united states sucks big time as compared to chemistry education in some other countries -- this means that a lot about your education in chemistry is up to you -- you're just not going to get educated very well wherever you go -- chemistry departments ranking are mostly based on quality of research done there and general fame of professors, not on how well they teach students -- nevertheless it matters in terms of chemistry grad schools</p>
<p>i though UCSD was very receptive towards chemistry majors -- granted education kinda sucked, there was nevertheless a variety of classes to take and many opportunities to get skills since chemistry is very hands-on -- there are many chemistry labs with professors who gladly take students in for undergraduate research -- there are also many biotech companies around the campus that will hire students for some low-key medicinal chemistry synthesis, or the like, for hourly wages that are much better than at most other student jobs -- plus UCSD offers 2 types of chemistry masters which is great idea after bachelors if you are not ready to leave the area, if you have applied to professional or graduate schools and got rejected everywhere, or if you're a year late with application process</p>
<p>generally the things listed above are benefits for any university if you plan to major in chemistry</p>