Biomedical or chemical engineering major

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<p>I'm a junior in high school, and am pretty set on studying either chemical or biomedical engineering in college. For a while I always assumed I'd major in biomedical engineering g because that is specifically the field I want to go into, and is also very fastly growing in terms of job availability. However it seems like chemical engineering has a more wide variety of possible jobs, including jobs in biotech/biomedical research, and get better pay on average. I'm also fascinated with nanotechnology, so chemical engineering seems like a good fit for me. What do you think is the wiser major for jobs in the future, especially in California. And what are some schools that offer good programs for both? What about possibly double majoring in the two? </p>

<p>Schools I'm interested in: USC, UC Berkeley, Michigan, Cal Poly SLO, Columbia, UPenn, University of Washington (Seattle) and ideally MIT</p>

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<p>Please be advised that if you need to pursue a degree in Bio-Medical-Engineering, you need to go all the way to Phd. You can’t stop at undergraduate because this field is for research. If you just stop at bachelor then your job most likely will be fixing the BME equipment/machine like mechanics or maintenance person. More importantly, you have to maintain high GPA ( I am not talking GPA of 3.2 but it has to be around 3.4 or 3.5 cumulative) in order to go to BME grad school if you cant do that, they will not be able to let you take the grad. school. For example, BME- Master or Phd programs at Johns Hopkins Univ., for the admissions, you have to go to their Medical School since that dept. is under med. school and you know med. school requires high GPA. </p>

<p>With strong desire and focus, you can do it. Good luck.</p>