<p>I've pretty much randomly chosen biomedical engineering as my prospective major because I very much enjoy math, physics, chemistry, and biology at school. I've looked at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt, and Bucknell so far, but I'd like to look at more schools. I'm located in Scranton, Pennsylvania and would travel up to about 6 hours away for college. What schools do people recommend for biomedical engineering? Is there a different major that would heavily use math, physics, chemistry and biology that would be better suited for me? I also like to tinker with computers and software. I've thought about computer science but the field seems very crowded to me.</p>
<p>I would prefer a more rural school if possible; I'm not used to big cities</p>
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<h1>2 in my class of 225</h1>
<p>SAT Math: 750
SAT Reading: 740
SAT Writing: 750
Member of FIRST Robotics Team, Key Club, Gifted Club
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<p>Case Western is also well-known for it though. I just don’t have their undergrad majors page bookmarked (my son goes to URoc for neuroscience, so I have a few pages at my fingertips). </p>
<p>Both schools are likely to offer you merit aid and definitely should be considered.</p>
<p>Here are some search results from college navigator for biomed engineering in New England, the Mid-Atlantice and some southeast and midwest that don’t look too far:
[College</a> Navigator - Search Results](<a href=“College Navigator - Search Results”>College Navigator - Search Results)
It does include cities, so if you redo that search to eliminate cities it eliminates most of the choices! I know you aren’t used to cities but you may not find a small city to be too bad.
An example would be WPI, which has an excellent biomed program.
[Biomedical</a> Engineering - WPI](<a href=“http://www.wpi.edu/academics/bme.html]Biomedical”>Biomedical Engineering | Worcester Polytechnic Institute) They also have bio/biotechnology and bioinformatics and computational biology for you to consider.</p>
<p>True - if you don’t like cities you aren’t likely to like Case Western (or Pitt & Carnegie Mellon). U Rochester does have its own campus that is well-defined, so it could be still worth looking at IMO.</p>
<p>For the Northeast, I’d recommend MIT (although it’s almost impossible to get in) and UPenn.</p>
<p>EECS may be crowded, but the job opportunities are a lot better for EECS than BioE grads. The only deterrent is that people who major in EECS typically have had an interest in programming for years and learn the languages before they start college. So you might be behind the curve if you haven’t already started.</p>