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I'll be starting my final year of college next fall and am looking at going to graduate school for Material Science Engineering. My school doesn't off a Material Science undergrad program, and it was not what I initially wanted to go into when I started school, so I'm currently studying Mechanical Engineering. It seems like most schools accept either Chemical or Mechanical undergrad degrees, but I've seen in a few threads here where it seems like ChemEng is sometimes the recommended "next best thing" to a MatSci undergrad degree. I'm curious as to what would make a ChemEng program make it more desirable? The chemistry classes? Labs? I've got a quite a few spaces for electives coming up in the next year due to AP/summer transfer credits, and although originally I was thinking of adding a math minor now I'm thinking of taking as many ChemEng electives as possible. I was looking at adding physical chemistry to get some thermodynamics from a different perspective, organic chemistry, the intro unit operations class, and fluid flow/heat transfer for ChemEng's. Would these help my chances at all, or are there other classes you would recommend taking? Maybe statistical mechanics or intro to QM from the physics department? Thanks for any help guys.