What is the attrition rate at Purdue for the chemical engineering program? At New Jersey Institute of Technology (the former Newark College of Engineering), 200 freshman would start, 25 seniors would graduate. This was back in the 70’s. The weeding out points were Physical Chemistry (P-Chem), and Organic Chemistry.
My son told me the two semesters of Organic Chem in sophomore year were the weed out points. One of his Organic Chem profs was a Nobel Prize Laureate. I’m not sure what the attrition rate was but my son said getting his degree was “grueling.” Purdue Chem E’s do all the math that aereospace does, plus the Chemistry. He has a T-shirt that says: “Purdue School of Chemical Engineering: Where Your Best Hasn’t Been Good Enough Since 1915.”