<p>
CMU is great for CS/EECS but other than that, it’s gonna depend on which department is being considered. If this were BME, CMU would be nobody. If this were material sciences, CMU wouldn’t be so hot either. CMU doesn’t have management sciences for which NU has a top-5 program. </p>
<p>ChemE got nothing to do with EE/CS. EE and ChemE are probably two of the most unrelated fields. Again, CMU’s strength in EE/CS doesn’t translate to a clear edge in chemE. If the OP has an interest in the biotech side of chemical engineering, then CMU is not the best choice. CMU has no med school and its pure sciences including bio have always been somewhat weak; so it’s been in a competitive disadvantage in interdisciplinary engineering fields that rely on resources from pure sciences. The biotech/biochemical research within their chemical engineering is less developed. That’s why its name is still “chemical engineering”. </p>
<p>I don’t know what you mean by “top employers”. Top consulting and IB firms recruit more at NU than at JHU. Top med schools have more JHU grads. In engineering, firms recruit all over many different schools, including many 3rd-tier ones and lots of them recruit locally.</p>