<p>i'm looking at biomed schools and wonder if anybody else know of good schools.</p>
<p>list so far: upenn, jhu [bme program], duke [pratt]</p>
<p>thanks in advance. later</p>
<p>I know that Georgia Tech is also supposed to have a pretty good biomedical engineering program; of course the male/female ratio might scare some people away. :P</p>
<p>Case Western Reserve (#4 in biomed), Washington University of St. Louis (good program linked with the world renowned medical school)</p>
<p>UCSD</p>
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<p>Call me biased, but I have heard that the University of Rochester's BME program is amazing... I know that it is not in the rankings, but on the other hand, the engineeing rankings are extremely flawed. I told someone involved with BME that I got accepted there, his eyes just bugged out... He knows that it has an excellent reputation in the workplace and they get a ton of grants. Granted that it may not have the same prestige or difficulty to get into as Hopkins, it is a top notch program. Moreoever they are now constructing a new building just for it based on the recognition that it has started receiving over the past few years... Also the male/female ratio is about 45%M/55%F</p>
<p>no one really can touch JHU (stanford too)</p>
<p>The BME field continues to be rapidly emerging so the available rankings are not only in flux they are of very questionable value. Having said that, for many years, it's widely been considered that the top-4 BME programs were likely JHU, Duke, UCSD, and CWR. Following these 4, most rankings considered programs like Penn, Northwestern, BU, and some others. Unfortunately, schools are making major changes to their programs -- new buildings are being built, faculties are being changed dramatically (some winners and some losers here). As a result, it is a certainty that the so-called "rankings" will be dramatically different in a couple of years than they are now, and, a couple years after that, etc. In the past few years, many schools have made major commitments to attaining prominence in this field, including Michigan, Wash-U, and Yale. Literally, in the past year or so, traditional engineering powerhouses like Stanford and Illinois have made similar commitments. This is an area of engineering where any applicant will have to go the extra mile and do some investigation.</p>
<p>Top programs:
Boston U.
Case Western
Duke
Georgia Tech
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Michigan-Ann Arbor
Penn
Tulane
UCSD</p>
<p>Up and coming:
Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Stanford
Washington U.</p>
<p>Stanford, MIT, JHU, UPENN come to my mind.</p>
<p>Anyone interested in MIT for UNDERGRADUATE BME needs to do some checking. As I mentioned before about this entire field being in flux, the same is true at MIT. I know for students in the 2004/2005 academic year, there was NO undergraduate BME major (I believe there was a minor). However, I also believe there a BME major and something they refer to as a biological engineering major may very well be instituted at the institute beginning with the 2005/2006 year. So, to say that they are currently a top undergraduate program is a bit misleading -- other than the reality that IF MIT wants to be a top program in BME, MIT WILL be a top program in BME. Other universities who have demonstrated a "want" to become major players in the last couple of years include Yale, Wash-U, and Stanford. It's pretty tough to bet against Yale and Stanford in anything they want to do; with Wash-U and that perennial medical school powerhouse, if they commit to having a top BME program, they likely will.</p>
<p>Most seem to think that to get anywhere in this field (unlike some of the other engineering disciplines), a GRADUATE degree is required in BME. Consequently, perhaps the issue is really whether a particular undergraduate background is "quality enough" with "connections enough" to open good graduate school opportunities.</p>
<p>bump ....</p>
<p>The BME rankings will be dramatically different in several years, since schools like Yale, Stanford, and MIT are just starting their programs and I'm willing to bet they will all be in the top 10 if not top 5 in a few years.</p>
<p>As for now, JHU and Duke have the two best, IMO.</p>