<p>Is Duke known for their Engineering program. Alot of people that live in NC say that NC State is better?? Any comments. Also does Duke have Nuclear Engineering?</p>
<p>My son wants to go into engineering. Major in Engineering Physics/Chemical or Nuclear.</p>
<p>He is only a rising sophomore.</p>
<p>If your son is looking at Chemical/Nuclear Engineering, NC State is over-qualified. They are, if I can remember correctly, top 5-10 nationally. With thier new Centennial campus, the program can only get better. Also, they get an enormous amount of research money, which is always a plus.</p>
<p>However, if your son is looking at biomedical engineering, Duke is by far the best choice in NC.</p>
<p>By far the best choice in the U.S. (<em>cough</em> except for maybe JHU... but not really ;) ).</p>
<p>At this point in time, my son would prefer to stay in NC, although it may change.</p>
<p>He is ranked 2/422 as of right now, so I know there is a whole new world out there waiting for him. He wants to go to Duke for the "name" and not for the field of study he wants to pursue.</p>
<p>Im just opening his eyes to things that he is blinded to is all that I am doing. Of course I will encourage him to look at other schools as well.</p>
<p>Duke is not especially known for engineering, except for BME. It has no Chemical or Nuclear Engineering programs. It has Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, and Biomedical Enginering</p>
<p>There's also an environmental engineering option on another campus by the coast I believe.</p>
<p>Although it is not especially known for engineering, I have to reservations in saying that all of the programs are very, very good. Duke does not "suck" at anything. Every Duke engineer is incredibly intelligent and the job placement seems to be very good in all fields (engineering and nonengineering). I have been very impressed with the quality of both the instruction and lab facilities thus far and recommend it to anyone. My friends at the "engineering" schools had labs with 30 or 40 people while I had a 10 person lab this last spring.</p>
<p>Duke Engineering is also known for the number of research and independent study opportunities - because of our size, we can extend many very-small-group options to pretty much any students that wants to pursue something like that, and each department awards credit for such ventures.</p>
<p>I did not intend for it come out as Duke "sucks" at engineering etc.</p>
<p>My question was is it good for Chem/Nuclear because that is the field that my son wants to pursue, and I dont want him to pursue a college that doesnt really specialize in that field.</p>
<p>Duke doesn't have a nuclear/chem engineering program so the answer would be no, Duke is not a good choice for your son if that's what he wants to do.</p>
<p>Yawp - no nuke or chem for engineering here, alas. We can kinda do chem with a BS Chem / BME double; and even more of a stretch with an ME / BS Physics for nuke but thats fairly etherial... </p>
<p>'course, if he wants to do nuke, he can go NROTC, do an engineering degree, then go submarines :-D</p>