What schools are really good for chemistry and/or biochemistry?

College Search & Selection
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I am leaning more towards chemistry, but biochemistry is of interest to me as well.

2

You could read through “15 Best Value Small Colleges for a Chemistry Degree.” Included schools such as Caltech, Swarthmore, Hamilton, Union, Bowdoin, Colby, Wooster and Barnard would offer you a range of selectivity options.

3

Those that do not leave you in a lot of debt, since job and career prospects specific to those majors are not that good.

4

for small colleges, Bates has a great Chemistry Dept and for larger ones, Cornell had a surprisingly tight-knit small group of kids who majored in Chem at Arts & Sciences. As you go up in the major, there are fewer numbers of students. Lots of other majors that are premed drop out after Organic Chem.

5

Only three (3) LACs made the Top 20 according to this ranking, Pomona, Colgate and Wesleyan:

https://www.collegefactual.com/majors/biological-biomedical-sciences/biochemistry-biophysics-molecular-biology/rankings/top-ranked/p2.html

6

Maybe it’s just me but for undergraduate studies just about any major university/LAC is really good for chemistry/biochemistry.