<p>which major has more possiblities in the future? Salary-wise which one is better?</p>
<p>Which college should i choose out of these 4?
* Boston University
* Tufts University
* WPI
* Northeastern University</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>In order to eliminate some bias I’m disclosing that I’m a Biomedical Engineer at JHU. So the following is strictly my opinion.</p>
<p>Chemical Engineering is a good high paying job right now, and with the Energy and Alternativew Fuel business/technology being recently debated, the issue isn’t going away, and there will definitely be a demand for Chemical Engineers. </p>
<p>Now , Biomedical Engineering is a very new field, with new Health Care, and the increasing role of technology in Health Care: i.e, Stuff like Automated Walking Cane for the Blind, pacemaker/defibrillator, sleep detection and alert device, glucose sensor and regulation, temperature controller, eye movement detection and device control, ultrasound ranging and tissue properties, impedance plethysmography, lie detector, blood alcohol detector, pulse oximeter, cell tissue engineering, etc, etc, etc. THIS FIELD IS HOT!</p>
<p>BME has the potential to grow and become very big [both salary wise and job market wise]. It also has an outlet to Medical School if you’re interested in that route. basically TODAY ChemE have more jobs and more salary than BME’s, but 5-10 years down the line, this may very well be reversed. </p>
<p>My personal Recommendation would be to take an intro course form both majors and then decide. Also talking to Professors and actual people working in Industry will definitely help! You need to be sure what interests you before plunging in!</p>
<p>As for the school. Northwestern is ranked the highest for Engineering as a whole, AND its ranked in the top 25 for both BME and ChemE. However Boston is ranked Top 10 for BME. I think you should go where YOU will be happy. College Tours, etc. Also talk to professors, see which college has more research in Engineering, etc. </p>
<p>NOTE: Keep in mind, BME is essentially the APPLICATION of ANY engineering discipline TO Medicine. So you can very well apply a ChemE background to Medicine. AKA. Given enough course work and experience in ChemE, you can still get a job in ChemE with a bME degree :)</p>
<p>Thanks vader1990…
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more comments r appriciated…</p>
<p>Wow Vader, you do a very good job of selling BME.</p>
<p>This board has done a real number on my decisiveness…I seem to be changing my interests every week…</p>
<p>This choice could depend on whether you plan to pursue a master’s degree or not. According to the BLM, even though BME is the fastest growing area of engineering, so is the interest in this field - which is making it more competitive than other engineering fields:</p>
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<p>Salary-wise, chemical eng. destroys biomedical eng.</p>
<p>[Most</a> lucrative college majors - highest starting salaries - Jul. 24, 2009](<a href=“http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/highest_starting_salaries/index.htm?postversion=2009072404]Most”>Most lucrative college majors - highest starting salaries - Jul. 24, 2009)</p>
<p>Chemical = 65k starting salary
Biomedical = 54k starting salary</p>
<p>On average, chemical eng. get paid 11k more out of college.</p>
<p>Conclusion: Go with chemical engineering.</p>
<h2>"As for the school. Northwestern is ranked the highest for Engineering as a whole, AND its ranked in the top 25 for both BME and ChemE. However Boston is ranked Top 10 for BME. I think you should go where YOU will be happy. College Tours, etc. Also talk to professors, see which college has more research in Engineering, etc. "</h2>
<p>The OP said NorthEASTern, not Northwestern</p>
<p>In my biased opinion, chemical engineering is a much broader field and will allow you more variety of employment opportunities. I would not pigeonhole myself into a narrower field too early in my academic career.</p>
<p>To support uCBChemEGrad post, I’m a chem eng student and I’m doing a BME internship right now. I got bored with pharma and oil so I decided to try something different this time.</p>
<p>ChemE hands down. </p>
<p>Not that I have anything against BME but right now the major is too new and the job opportunities too thin. ChemE will give you a solid foundation and a few electives or a masters will allow you to compete for BME jobs.</p>
<p>this might give you the answer. Based on how Princeton University sees the future, the prestigious ChE. department has now changed its name to:</p>
<p>Princeton Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> University - Name change highlights links between engineering and biology](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/02/83E84/]Princeton”>Name change highlights links between engineering and biology)</p>
<p>The future of BME may not be as hot as you might anticipate. In the new federal health care law it is my understanding that biomedical device manufacturers (makers of everything from tongue depressors to pacemakers) got screwed because they didn’t lobby hard for themselves like other medical industries. If profits and tax benefits are reduced, interest in research and innovation gets reduced and eventually technology get frozen – the equivalent to 1950’s era TVs and automobiles in Cuba.</p>
<p>mrego, forget all that</p>
<p>the bioengineering major is the major chosen by many premed students these days</p>