<p>Well,basically I had decided Texas A&M earlier ,but my friend who studies at northwestern asked a few people and they happened to say USC.TAMU is ranked higher for chemical engineering.
Also,my sister did study at USC (computers) but she said to go with Texas A&M.Fees isnt much of a problem,so please could anyone help out here !</p>
<p>I’d choose the cheaper option…if one was significantly cheaper for you. However, these schools are pretty different…TAMU is an isolated, conservative and huge college town…USC has all the LA glamor and is an up and coming private school. Both schools have strong alumni pride. </p>
<p>TAMU has one advantage for chemical engineering…it is a bigger program and being located in Texas, the hotbed for ChemE, it will be more widely recruited. If you want ChemE and love Texas, I would choose TAMU.</p>
<p>I’m assuming USC is the University of Southern California, is that assumption correct?</p>
<p>I think you should opt for the other big texas school, UT - Austin. It has a higher prestige.</p>
<p>yeah, USC is University of Southern California.I dont have any problem with Texas,as in I do have the advantage of a cousin in the college unlike USC and yeah I want chemical engineering.Though I also wanted to have a look at the overall reputation of both the colleges (any idea on that?) and their respective Chemical Engineering departments and it does seem that TAMU might have a better one , its higher even on the US news ranking.</p>
<p>I have a reject from UT Austin so that wouldnt be an option.</p>
<p>2010 NRC Graduate School Rankings for Chemical Engineering</p>
<h1>26 - USC</h1>
<h1>31 - Texas A&M</h1>
<h1>of Chemical Engineer Completions in BS last year</h1>
<p>28 – USC
150 - Texas A&M</p>
<h1>of Chemical Engineer Completions in MS last year</h1>
<p>22 — USC
4 ---- Texas A&M</p>
<h1>of Chemical Engineer Completions in PhD last year</h1>
<p>8 – USC
18 - Texas A&M</p>
<p>onecircuit, when you post these 2010 NRC rankings all over, which methodology are you basing it on?</p>
<p>Dorian, it is essentially an average of the s and r 5/95 figures and are calculated automatically here when you use the s and r priorities:</p>
<p>[Find</a> the Graduate School That’s Right for You — PhDs.org Graduate School Guide](<a href=“http://graduate-school.phds.org/]Find”>http://graduate-school.phds.org/)</p>
<p>otherwise, you can use this and calculate the averages yourself:</p>
<p>[NRC</a> Rankings Overview: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-/124710/]NRC”>http://chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-/124710/)</p>
<p>Yeah, I know how to use the PhDs.org tool, which can actually give you only the S- or R-rankings if you want, I just thought it would be worth it to point out that there’s not one definitive numerical 2010 ranking.</p>