<p>Actually, having a reactor is more helpful for the undergrads rather than the grads IMO because the undergrads are usually the ones who help out maintaining the reactor. It is a good hands-on experience for people waning to work inside a reactor.</p>
<p>I agree that having a reactor does not mean a better program, but it is definitely a plus for giving students hands=on working experience and getting valuable data through real experiments. For example, this year, UIUC requested our school to share our reactor data obtained from experiments. In simulations, you can have very accurate measures, but perhaps much too accurate. In real life, things are not always perfect, and you also have to consider those measures, especially in a nuclear reactor.</p>
<p>Lastly, the 2008 rankings are:
1. Univ. Mich. - Ann Arbor
2. MIT
2. Univ. of Wisc. - Madison
4. Texas A&M
5. Penn State
5. Univ. of Cal. - Berkeley
7. North Carolina State Univ.
8. Oregon State Univ.
9. Georgia Inst. Tech.
10. Univ. of Florida</p>
<p>Those are the grad rankings.</p>
<p>The rankings you posted are grad rankings too</p>
<p>Fail on my part. You're right. I pulled up the thread and search "nuclear"...copy...paste...didn't see that that was graduate from 2007, which is lame and shouldn't be up anyway. Good catch.</p>
<p>Fail.</p>
<p>I personally think that undergraduate rankings are simply a mixture of the overall engineering program + grad school program (More weight towards overall engineering program during freshman/sophomore years and grad school program during junior/senior years).</p>
<p>Therefore the rankings above are also usable for undergraduate rankings.</p>
<p>I am 37 years old. I have served in the US Army for the last 17 years. I have a BS in Physics and Math and now I plan to go to graduate school for Nuclear Engineering. I plan on getting a Masters and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering. My interest lies in Nuclear Weapons Designing. I plan on working in the Livermore or Los Almos Lab as a career in the filed of Nuclear Weapons Engineering. </p>
<p>Do you guys know which school should I attend to specialize in Nuclear Weapons Designing within the nuclear engineering field?</p>
<p>Texas A&M has 2 nuclear reactors.</p>