<p>Does anyone know about the chemical engineering program at Columbia university's fu school of engineering? National Ranking? Average grad. salary? Placement rates? How does it compare with other ivy leagues? Thanks.</p>
<p>this is really something you should've researched on your own.</p>
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this is really something you should've researched on your own.
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<p>Some of this yes, but <em>I</em> would have no idea where to find the average salaries and breakdowns of what jobs people do for specific SEAS departments.</p>
<p>ok, fair enough. i would say that average grad salary ~60-70k for engineers, 110-160k for ibanking. but i don't see why that matters; that's like the same for any good engineering school.</p>
<p>and i have no idea what placement rates means.</p>
<p>I mean, that I wouldn't have any clue where to find some chart showing that (making these #'s up) Columbia ChemEs make an average salary of $62,456 and Rutgers ChemEs make an average of $56,321. It might matter in the sense that it helps someone decide whether Columbia is "worth it."</p>
<p>i considered being a chemE major and took the intro class, which basically showed us some elementary concepts, but more importantly introduced us to alot of career outlooks chemEs have. from what i can tell, columbia has a pretty good placement for chemE. its not ranked incredibly high, but thats because its a somewhat small department, although ABET accredited which is nice. in any case, you wont have any problem coming out of columbia as a chemE; id look at the website for more info.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help revolution</p>
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<p>Half of this used to be on a pamphlet each department had when I was a sr in high school. I tried looking for it but can't find it now...</p>
<p>Anyways....starting salary: one of the highest medians, usually the most densely concentrated at that number (as opposed to, say, computer eng where a lot of grads get the low end but the median is drawn up by the few at the very top). </p>
<p>National ranking: does it really matter? Most of the methodologies behind them are solely based on the money the department has and maybe factors things like nobel prizes or something similar in. Honestly, I'm perfectly happy with the department. Most of the professors are great teachers (Castaldi, Durning, and Samasonduran are all amazing) and really care about you learning the material they teach. I started research as a soph and will continue til I graduate even spending a paid summer here. A couple of my friends even started as freshmen. The number of students per year is small enough to be friendly but large enough to be diverse. Could go on here for awhile but I'll stop.</p>
<p>Placement rates: again used to be on that flier I mentioned. I knew most of the grads from last year and I can only think of one that got rejected from their number 1 choice of job/school. Plenty go to great law/med/grad schools and a lot get into i banking (tho this past year was pretty bad for that). Anecdotal evidence, I know, but it's the best thing I can give you.</p>
<p>Other ivies: Princeton and Cornell will probably always be at the top of the ladder engineering wise but I'd say we're not too far behind. Definitely comparable to the mid ivies (for engineering, Dartmouth and Penn) and above the lower ones (Yale, Harvard, Brown) [I'm not trying to start a flame war, PM me if you have a problem with this statement]</p>
<p>If you want to know more, let me know in a PM. I can give you my experiences, the good and the bad ones.</p>