<p>Undergraduate Chemical Engineering at UCSD or UCSB? Which is better and why? I do know that Graduate Chemical Engineering at UCSB is better though but I'm not sure about undergraduate? Thanks.</p>
<p>UCSB ChemE is world reknown my friend...</p>
<p>^I agree with jmilton. UCSB has a great ChemE department. If you follow US News Rankings:
Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Chemical
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
Methodology
1 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
2 University of California–Berkeley *
3 Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities *
4 Stanford University (CA)
5 Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
6 California Institute of Technology
7 Princeton University (NJ)
8 U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
9 University of Texas–Austin *
10 University of Delaware *
11 Georgia Institute of Technology *
11 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
13 Cornell University (NY)
14 Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
15 Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)*
16 Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *
17 Texas A&M Univ.–College Station *
*17 Univ. of California–Santa Barbara **
19 North Carolina State U.–Raleigh *
20 Rice University (TX)
20 University of Pennsylvania
22 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
23 Iowa State University *
23 Northwestern University (IL)
23 University of Notre Dame (IN)
23 University of Virginia *
23 University of Washington *</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply everyone.</p>