<p>Can someone major in biomedical engineering and then go to grad school in materials science and engineering? I ask bc I am currently under mechanical engineering but I don't find it that interesting so I am thinking of changing my major, the only other engineering options are biomed or chemical engineering and I really don't want to learn all the ChemE stuff that I am not interested in.</p>
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<p>well, from the perspective of a MSE undergrad (me), chemical E would be more closely related. </p>
<p>and yes, you can go to grad school in MatSE with either background, but expect more time spent and harder work.. take a look in the graduate handbooks for the MSE programs you're looking at to see what you are needed to know, and choose accordingly.. </p>
<p>no MSE at your college? :(</p>
<p>Unfortuantely no, the only thing close to it at the University of Texas is a materials engineering career gateway under mechanical engineering which is partially why I applied as a MechE.</p>
<p>My Materials Science professor said it's common for non-Matsci majors (including himself) to go to graduate school in materials. Materials is an interdisciplinary field and they look for people from a variety of backgrounds; in addition, a lot of what can be discovered in one discipline has already been discovered so much of new research combines multiple disciplines, so having a different but related undergraduate degree can be beneficial. Biomaterials is a pretty popular field right now with a lot of potential, although you can probably concentrate on any other subfields in materials with a BME undergraduate degree.</p>