Top Ten Reasons

Ten Important Reasons to Study With Us

1. Chemical engineering provides you with an opportunity to focus in the health sciences, energy, environmental or pulp and paper areas.
2. Paper engineering provides you with choices to focus on process engineering or environmental engineering. GPS provides choices in business, multimedia or packaging.
3. Our programs offer an introductory course at the freshman level to introduce you to the program, curriculum and industry. This course is supplemented with presentations from recent graduates and field trips to local industry.
4. Our faculty have numerous years of experience with industry and associations that will benefit you.
5. Career opportunities are limitless and a very high percentage of our students are offered jobs upon graduation. You could be one of them!
6. Paid internship and co-op programs give you valuable industry experience.
7. You will have interaction with key industry personnel through the Paper Technology Foundation, Chemical Engineering Industrial Advisory and Printing Advisory Committee members.
8. Class sizes are small with close interaction with faculty.
9. Scholarship opportunities abound for undergraduates and graduates.
10. You will be a career ready graduate: Chemical and paper graduates boast the highest starting salaries in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences with beginning salaries of over $70,000!