<p>How is Yale's undergraduate program in biomedical engineering? Does anyone know how it compares with Duke and WashU (and others with strong BME programs)? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>The undergraduate BME program is very, very strong. Access to the medical school and Yale's research in general (Yale has more research per undergrad than any other school except MIT or Caltech). It is only a few years old, so not everyone recognizes that.</p>
<p>Here is where the leading research in bio-medical engineering has taken place:</p>
<p><a href="http://hst.mit.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://hst.mit.edu/</a></p>
<p>To learn more, see:</p>
<p>He was asking about undergraduate, TROLL!</p>
<p>And the top BME programs include Stanford, MIT and JHU for undergraduates. Harvard can only hang on MIT's engineering credibility for graduates, it seems.</p>
<p>Also, still no citation from posterX, meaning his statements in this thread are fallacious.</p>
<p>Don't forget the research funding and research opportunities associated with Harvard's 17 affiliated medical institutions.</p>
<p>This provides major benefits for undergrads as well. See: <a href="http://www.deas.harvard.edu/research/opportunities/biomedical/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.deas.harvard.edu/research/opportunities/biomedical/index.html</a></p>
<p>Ooh! Harvard offers research! So do a lot of schools.</p>
<p>Not at 17 affiliated medical institutions.</p>
<p>Oh for Christ's sake!
You guys add absolutely nothing to any of these discussions!
How come it always becomes a war of alma maters instead of real answers?</p>
<p>Divide this up per undergraduate science major and you'll see what I mean.</p>
<p>Total Federal Research Support 2005</p>
<p>Yale 415.4 million (all of which takes place in the central campus)
Harvard 507.9 million (some of which takes place at the medical campus, which is miles away and in a different city from the undergraduates)
Cornell 381.0 million (much of which takes place in New York City, hundreds of miles away from the undergraduates)
Stanford 484.6 million
Northwestern 302.8 million
Princeton 114.0 million
MIT 424.0 million<br>
Rice 59.0 million </p>
<p>Source: facts.wustl.edu</p>
<p>As Crimsonbulldog has pointed out to you many times, TROLLSTER, those numbers are not representative of the situation at Harvard, where, for accounting reasons, the vast research sums funnelled to the 17 Harvard-affiliated medical institutions are reported separately. </p>
<p>If, as at Yale, Stanford etc, the NIH funds for affiliated hospitals are included, the"total federal research support" at Harvard dwarfs that at any other institution except JHU - with its unique ties to federal facilities.</p>
<p>"Total Federal Research Support 2005"</p>
<p>Not representative. You would have to include ALL research support, not just federal money. Stanford, then, will benefit from California's progressive attitudes on stem-cell research, and also from private foundations.</p>
<p>The top 5 private hospitals in NIH research funding are all Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals.</p>
<p>Harvard has shown a Berlin Conference-like ability to affiliate themselves with hospitals. That doesn't matter much, because undergraduates aren't doing research at hospitals far from campus. </p>
<p>Undergrads are both doing schoolwork and researching at the Cincy hospital?</p>
<p>No, Byerly, no. </p>
<p>And Harvard does "fudge" its funding data because it has little to do with the hospitals spread around the country it has attached its name to.</p>
<p>Huh ???</p>
<p>I think your not reading carefully enough, lad.</p>
<p>1 MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL $285,112,059 </p>
<p>2 BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL $231,412,376</p>
<p>3 DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE $122,127,512</p>
<p>4 BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER $114,564,223</p>
<p>5 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (BOSTON) $99,571,939</p>
<hr>
<p>All are Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, located within yards of Harvard Medical School, (or, in the case of Mass General, an 8-minute subway ride) and a short shuttle bus ride from Harvard Square.</p>
<p>We're talking about biomedical engineering and central campus research expenditure, not affiliated hospitals.</p>
<p>No we're not. We're talking about biomedical engineering and research opportunities,</p>
<p>Stick to the OP which was a questions about YALE, NOT HARVARD (which does not have a strong biomedical engineering UNDERGRAD program no matter what you spin in terms of affiliated hospitals). Stop destroying these threads you insecure troll.</p>
<p>Yes, I read the chart wrong initially. </p>
<p>I retract what I said.</p>
<p>Thank you zepher. You get extra credit for that.</p>
<p>And bulldog - you better check again: I believe the OP asked how Yale compared to <em>other</em> schools.</p>
<p>The OP:</p>
<p>Does anyone know how it compares with Duke and WashU (and others with strong BME programs)? </p>
<p>Note the words "strong BME program." Even your incessant love affair with harvard couldn't blind you to such an extent to consider Harvard's undergraduate BME program strong.</p>