<p>What are some of the best engineering (major) programs at Columbia's Fu Foundation SEAS? By best, I don't only mean by US News rankings and such (obviously quality is more than the rank). Who has the best professors, the best job placement after graduation?</p>
<p>I'm quite interested in the Biomedical Engineering and Financial Engineering majors at SEAS. How good are those departments?</p>
<p>My friend at SEAS explained Financial Eng is top in the country (princeton also has a good financial eng program, but not as good). You need probably about a 3.8 to be admitted to the major. If you don’t get into Fin Eng, you can still do IEOR as a major, which will probably still get you as good a job. Biomed engineering and financial engineering literally have nothing to do with each other so I have no idea why you are considering them. Biomed at John Hopkins is the way to go but Columbia also has an okay BME programm. If you are premed, a popular option is applied math as well as BME. The CS department is SEAS is also top-knotch and the EE department could surely hold its own.</p>
<p>Great information! People ask me all the time why I’m interested in both. It’s more of a consideration of both; I’ll end up doing only one. The premed advising track is certain, though.</p>
<p>most of the majors at columbia seas are strong. particularly strong:</p>
<p>1) FE (highly employable esp. finance)</p>
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2) Operations Research (highly employable esp. finance)
3) Applied Math (highly employable)
4) Applied Physics (less employable than apma, but not bad)
6) Computer Science (highly employable)
7) Earth and Environmental (not very employable)</p>
<p>BME, Civil, MechE, Electrical, Applied physics, Chem E are all solid with many students in each.</p>
<p>How about Industrial Engineering? Is it less employable than Operations Research?</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, what kinds of jobs can you get with Applied Math? Why does it pair well with BME?</p>
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<p>My friends in the EE department would disagree wholeheartedly. I don’t remember their reasons why it’s not a good department but none of the people I knew in it liked it.</p>
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<p>Not true. There are a TON of environmental consulting firms in NYC (there were at least 5 at both the engineering and university career fairs). Beyond that, a lot of bigger companies are looking for EEE’s to help out with “green” initiatives (P&G, Dupont, General Mills, etc). </p>
<p>That being said, a EEE is just an applied Chem.E. but unfortunately HR people don’t tend to understand that and they don’t like ChemE’s unless you did a EEE minor…</p>
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<p>I don’t know anyone that did this. BME is a ridiculously busy major as it is, throwing on applied math, even if it’s only 3-5 more classes, just seems like there’s no reason. Especially for a premed. It’s just more opportunity to lower your GPA, it would seem to me…</p>
<p>Edit 2: unless you mean premed = BME or APMA…I could see that.</p>
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<p>didn’t know this, my bad.</p>
<p>How is computer engineering and engineering mechanics? </p>
<p>I am looking at both of those myself.</p>
<p>Yes, how about the computer engineering?</p>
<p>People do it. A friend of mine (who, admittedly, was 3rd in his class) had an internship with Google and an offer after grad from Microsoft. Wound up working for one of the larger I-banks tho.</p>