I know there are top 10 good chem. E grad schools like MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etc etc…but I am obviously not a genius enough to go there. I have 3.55 GPA, and 3 semeters left
What are good grad schools that offer good but not crazy hard to get in masters/phd programs ?
@paul2752 - You are asking others to do your research for you. I am not saying that there won’t be someone who knows what you want to know and is willing to share it. But you need to at least look through the US News graduate school rankings on your own. For example, Harvard is not a top-ten Chem E university. In fact it is only ranked 23rd overall in engineering and unranked in chemical engineering. Minnesota, Delaware, and Texas have top-ten Chem E programs. You should pay for the US News premium access so you can drill down on the data. You need to spend a lot of time on program websites to get information about admission requirements. (Some websites are more informative than others.)
And a 3.55 GPA in Chem E is not shabby at all. That’s a very difficult major, one of the hardest engineering majors along with EE and Aerospace E. Don’t sell yourself short.
@Beaudreau, last time I checked the list was LOCKED and for personal reason I can’t pay.
However, I appreciate your commendation.
I think you need to decide first what your long-term career goals are and whether you want an MS or PhD. What would be a “good” school for you depends in large part on what your goals are, in addition to whether or not you would be competitive for admission. A 3.55 gpa is decent - it is probably acceptable for admission to most MS programs. What will determine your competitiveness to strong PhD programs is the quality of your research experience and the strength of the recommendation letter(s) from your research mentor(s). If you are applying to PhD programs, you should be thinking less about the ranking of the program, and more about what particular areas of research you are interested in, and who are the faculty in the programs who are active in those areas.