<p>Why is it on the BME site at CMU it only talks about double majoring? Can't you just major in biomedical engineering? Would it be easier to just focus on BME, or would it be easier to do BME and Mechanical Engineering?</p>
<p>BME is available as only a second major, when the first major is something in CIT. It is CMU's philosophy that it is best to have a solid grounding in a traditional engineering discipline and knowledge of BME.</p>
<p>My nephew didn't like the CMU approach to biomed engineering and went to Rice instead. It's probably worth looking at each college pretty carefully to see how these interdisciplinary fields are handled.</p>
<p>bme is a double major or a minor.
you cant start it until 2nd term frosh year or soph year i believe also...so you can have a foundation in ee or mech beforehand.</p>
<p>personally i think doing ee and bme would be really difficult, as ee alone is the hardest major in cit. mech+bme would be more managable, or you can do it as a minor.</p>
<p>you have 5 majors to choose from:</p>
<p>Mech e
EE
Chem E
Materials
Civil</p>
<p>then you have 2 potential double majors:</p>
<p>Biomed
Public Policy</p>
<p>If you really want to go heavy BME, I would pick a lighter traditional engineering, not Chem. E or EE.</p>
<p>yeah, not many schools have it as a stand alone major right now. MIT just made it its own major two years ago (by lottery, only a handful of students can declare per year) and it was placed as the fifth best biomedical engineering program in the nation its first year, which kind of tells you how many school actually have it as a major currently.</p>