Hello everyone,
I will be graduating from college with a BS in Chemical Engineering. My GPA is a . out of and I am graduating from the University of Maryland (# Engineering rank in the country according to US News). I have a good amount of research and internships and a great GRE score. If anyone could recommend some engineering grad programs based on my stats that would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
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You must already know that the best engineering schools in the east are MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, and Purdue (SORT OF east!) …for Chemical Engineering in particular, Princeton and U of Delaware also are ranked high by US News & World Report. Caltech is the best out west. I can recommend Caltech on several axes that are probably orthogonal to what the “rankings” considered. Most importantly, Caltech has faculty who act as if they respect students, because they know that Caltech students really WILL be their eventual replacements. It probably helps that Caltech does not practice affirmative action, so no matter what your race, gender, or national origin, everyone knows you got there by doing really well and not by some quota. Of course financial arrangements don’t affect you much, since your graduate tuition will be paid by whatever institution agrees to take you on; nevertheless, it’s somewhat instructive to know that Caltech UNDERgrads leave school with about / of the debt that MIT undergrads incur, and the reason is, that on-campus work opportunities are much more remunerative at Caltech than at MIT.
Source(s): Former Caltech student and employee who has also been a student and/or employee at Harvard and at several lesser institutions.