<p>Been out of school for 3 years and am now seriously considering going back for a PhD in chemistry. I have a bachelors in chemical engineering and have been a nuclear engineer for the past few years. For my job I have a respectable qualification and basically have a masters in nuclear engineering. My job has consisted of about a year of classroom time and a few 8 hour exams plus oral boards and what not. I did really well in my chemistry classes in college, mostly A's, and graduated with an overall undergrad of 3.17. Based on the past few sentences will a PhD in chemistry be something that I can seriously consider and tier schools should I consider? Thanks</p>
<p>Thank you so much for all of the great input, oh yea that’s right all 21 of you who viewed this thread chose not to reply. Maybe I should have changed the name of thread to working engineer wants to go back to school and I bet I would have gotten some more views or hopefully a reply.</p>
<p>I hope that sarcasm came off as *****y because it totally was, haha</p>
<p>Ha ha I guess the reason people chose not to reply is that grad school is a crap shoot usually.</p>
<p>I don’t have much experience, but I’d say you seem like a good candidate for grad school. But you should mention why you want to go back to academia and stay in it for a career.</p>
<p>Do you have any research experience? The grad school you go to is usually more focused toward what type of research you wanna do. So figure out what you wanna study/research and then look at what schools are doing that research.</p>
<p>you think 21 views and no replies is bad? dude…</p>
<p>yea i jumped the gun a little quickly to ***** but ironically it worked and already 2 responses in a very short amount of time, not to bad. I’ll definitely do some research on which schools have the research I’d like to pursue. I think the point of my post was to find out if my professional experience will help or if it doesn’t mean **** and also is it a problem for a ChemE to go straight chem for grad. I do apologize for the quick ******* trend but I guess that’s who I am deep down.</p>
<p>Oh and I do have research experience but barely and I’m not sure I’d feel comfortable talking about it. I worked for a year in a biochem lab synthesizing snail toxins. Besides the nuc thing I’ve also worked at GE as a co op for seven months doing gas turbine performance analysis.</p>