Biomedical Engineering

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<p>This is not time-sensitive at all, and it's not going to alter any kind of decisions right away, so there's no hurry.</p>

<p>I recently decided to go to Rice next year (I'm a graduating HS senior). Now that I've done it once, I'm trying to help a few of my junior-year friends with their college searches. I have one friend who is very intent on going to a school ONLY if it has a biomedical engineering major. I could have sworn I had seen Biomedical Engineering programs at Rice, but it does not appear on the List of Major Advisors page ( <a href="http://www.students.rice.edu/images/students/Major%20Advisors%20website%2020100309.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.students.rice.edu/images/students/Major%20Advisors%20website%2020100309.pdf&lt;/a> ), and I cannot find a comprehensive list of majors anywhere.</p>

<p>I think that Rice would be a great fit for her in all other respects, but now <em>I</em> am curious too. Is there a comprehensive list of majors somewhere? Or if not, does anyone know/know who I could talk to about whether or not Rice has a Biomedical Engineering major?</p>

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<p>Look into Rice’s bioengineering major. It’s pretty similar to biomedical engineering (the same at some schools).</p>

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First off, I want to ask why your friend wants to go only if there is a BME program. Does she want to do it for medical school. Cause she will be painfully miserable and even not be able to have a high GPA for it since it is one of the hardest engineering around. Also, since so many people are doing BME thinking it will help get into med school, med school aren’t going to judge BME’s GPA more leniently than compared to say Biology. If she wants to go towards a Ph.D then sure go for it. But read this site first: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/222845-avoid-bioengineering-if-you-can.html?[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/222845-avoid-bioengineering-if-you-can.html?&lt;/a&gt;
BME is one of the hardest major to get a job in.</p>

<p>Rice does NOT have a BME program, it has a Bioengineering program. BioE and BME at the undergrad level is pretty much interchangeable, only when you get to grad level does it begin to diverge as it begins to focus on much more specific fields.</p>

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<p>Entle62 - Hopefully some more Rice students will weigh in. Gunit5 is not a Rice student, though he raises a good question above.</p>

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<p>Rice has a top 10 bioengineering program… it is very similar to BME, if not the same (just a different major). However, it is definitely one of the toughest, if not the toughest, major at Rice. I know Duke and Johns Hopkins have BME, and I have heard from friends that BME at these schools are the toughest majors at the respective schools.</p>