<p>anyone know about the quality of the bme program at yale? also, will the new science complex significantly improve this?</p>
<p>It's definitely one of the best undergraduate programs in the country. There are a bunch of other threads on this forum about Yale engineering and BME, though - I'd advise you to look for them.</p>
<p>For a certainly imperfect but much more accurate/less biased opinion than that of posterx</p>
<p>See: </p>
<p>Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Biomedical / Biomedical Engineering
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
Methodology
1 Johns Hopkins University (MD)
2 Duke University (NC)
3 Georgia Institute of Technology *
4 Univ. of CaliforniaSan Diego *
5 University of Pennsylvania
6 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
7 Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH)
8 Boston University
9 Rice University (TX)
9 University of MichiganAnn Arbor *
11 Northwestern University (IL)
12 University of Washington *
13 Stanford University (CA)
14 University of CaliforniaBerkeley *
15 Vanderbilt University (TN)
16 Univ. of WisconsinMadison *
16 University of Virginia *
16 Washington University in St. Louis
19 Tulane University (LA)
19 University of TexasAustin *
21 Cornell University (NY)
21 University of Utah *
23 Columbia University (NY)</p>
<p>Rankings do provide an unbiased viewpoint, but they should not be your only factor when selecting a school. The biomedical engineering program at Yale will undoubtedly world class as Yale is a world class institution. It is a relatively new program with brand new faculty and buildings and research facilities so you will be exposed to brand new cutting edge tools rather than aged equipment. You will also have the benefits of a 1:1 faculty teacher ratio which is unmatched at most of the schools listed above. After all of that is factored, Yale's BME program is as rigorous and as good as all of the other's listed above. How much variation can an undergraduate education really have?</p>
<p>Due to the survey-based methodology that USNWR uses, the ranking above is based almost entirely on program size. Larger programs get more survey responses just because they have more faculty, graduates and students. In fact, you'll note that of the institutions ranked among the top 40 or so engineering schools in the country, Yale is about half the size of the next-smallest ranked program.</p>
<p>Here is a more accurate ranking based on QUALITY not quantity: </p>
<p>The major issue with the biomedical engineering rankings is that, since Yale has a fairly new program (and is not highly ranked in other areas of engineering), it's hard for it to fare well in an entirely reputation-based ranking. But from what my friends who are interested in biomedical engineering tell me (and it seems to be the most popular engineering field among Yale undergrads), it's a very good program.</p>
<p>I would like to bump this thread.</p>
<p>How is the bioengineering program at Yale? There are not too many reviews for this program and we would like to get some insights from CC community if they know Yale’s program compared to Duke and UC San Diego bio-engineering programs.</p>
<p>I thought he said bioengineering not biomedical engineering.</p>
<p>Yes. I am also asking for Bioengineering.</p>
<p>How hard is it to major in biomedical engineering at Yale? I heard that no more than 40% are getting A’s and B’s in science courses in general. After first test most C’s and D’s students drop the course, so the rest students have to compete for the harder 40%.</p>
<p>Just something random I was looking at when I saw this thread:</p>
<p>[Frontiers</a> of Biomedical Engineering — Open Yale Courses](<a href=“http://oyc.yale.edu/biomedical-engineering/frontiers-in-biomedical-engineering]Frontiers”>http://oyc.yale.edu/biomedical-engineering/frontiers-in-biomedical-engineering)</p>
<p>This is like an intro bme class at Yale…it’s for majors and non-majors tho.</p>
<p>My college couunselor told me to stay away from biomedical engineering at Yale, but is he correct? Some help, please!</p>
<p>As much as I like Yale (my sister did her undergrad there), I can’t recommend it for any type of engineering. If you are interested in bioengineering and want to go to a private school I would suggest Johns Hopkins, Duke, Penn and MIT.</p>
<p>Thanks, that’s what I was thinking!</p>
<p>Intersting…my H went with our S for the bulldog days and came back very impressed with what he saw in terms of kind of projects students there are doing at Yale. The engineering program is small for sure but they do have a lot of resources and they are funding very good research. My H said that between Duke and Yale, he definitely liked Yale.</p>