[cosmicrxn]

Recently, I've been looking into graduate schools which have numerous professors specializing in polymer chemistry. Unfortunately, the search hasn't been going well, as it seems many schools still don't have strong materials/polymer area, and most lists of good schools for polymer chemistry are not recent.

So my question is this: what are some good schools (top tier or otherwise) which have strong polymer chemistry groups?

(If it helps, I would like to stay in academia rather than go into industry, but I'm not sure how this should factor into my search for grad schools.)

[curiouscat]

Also look into Material Sci & Chem. Eng. programs if you are so inclined.

Some of the polymer faculty hides in there.

[cosmicrxn]

Also look into Material Sci & Chem. Eng. programs if you are so inclined.

Some of the polymer faculty hides in there.

Oh, thank you for the suggestion! I hadn't considered looking into other departments.

[spirochete]

I know that the University of Massachusetts Amherst has a very well regarded PhD program in polymers, and I believe it is its own program. If I recall they also have a very generous stipend compared to most programs. The program is separate from the chemistry department.

[Corribus]

THe University of Akron (Ohio) has by reputation one of the strongest polymer science schools in the US.

http://www.uakron.edu/cpspe/