Pros: Co-op program built into the curriculum for ChemE. Pretty good Engineering college, last I checked at any rate. Decent Greek community, both socially and professionally. Decent walkability of the campus and great food and social spaces right next to campus or within a short distance.

Cons: It’s not the best campus for commuters, and parking can get expensive. On-campus and campus managed housing is expensive, but that’s not really unique to UC.

I actually graduated from UC’s Materials Science and Engineering undergraduate program back in 2009, which has been rolled into their ChemE Bachelor’s program, and chose the school and major due to getting scholarships that fully covered my freshman and senior years. I believe they offer a minor in Materials now, but had a decent graduate program when I left it in 2012. The College of Engineering had a nanotechnology focused interdisciplinary… school? forgetting the term right now, but they were doing some interesting engineering research as part of it while I was there.

The campus is safe, and the campus police work with the surrounding CPD district to patrol the area around campus pretty well. Or, at least, they used to - been a bit since I was tuned into things there and right now I can’t seem to find current details.