<p>My brother got accepted into Bio Medical Engineering at Johns Hopkins and Duke... and Mech E. at Carnegie Mellon and UIUC, which is the best choice for him? If he chooses to do BME and he doesnt get into Med. School, will he still have a good future comparing to Mechanical Engineering? Which one is the best choice for him?</p>
<p>Uh, I think it heavily depends on what your brother enjoys doing...</p>
<p>he said he doesnt have any preference... anything will do.. he likes both of them.. but he cant choose = =.. he afraid that if he choose BME cant get into Med school he wont be able to find any good job comparing to Mech E...any idea?? Which college is the best for him?</p>
<p>ME. Easily. If you don't have a preference then you need to keep your options open.</p>
<p>ME has about 1000X more available openings than BME.</p>
<p>-If he is planning to go to med school he should avoid engineering.
-If he still wants to do engineering then Biomedical would have a lot of overlap with premed requirements.
-There are more jobs for "MechE" people than BME people. However an engineer is an engineer is an engineer and since most engineers don't really use more than 5% of what they learned (as a lot of people on this site claim) I doubt any company will care if you're officially BME or MechE or EE or whatever.</p>
<p>-Finally, BME @ JHU requires 27 credits of advanced engineering credits (level 300+, I believe.) which you can pick out of a list of courses -- most of these are offered outside the BME department in regular departments, a large number of them are EE/MechE/CE/CS classes offered by the BME department because of the large medical component in addition to the engineering component which most non BMEs don't want and don't need. At this rate, you can double major. But you need to make sure that what I said here is true because this has changed recently and I'm no longer sure what the requirements are but they should be about the same.</p>
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However an engineer is an engineer is an engineer and since most engineers don't really use more than 5% of what they learned (as a lot of people on this site claim) I doubt any company will care if you're officially BME or MechE or EE or whatever.
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I disagree with this statement. True, you probably only use 5% of what you actually learned in school. You just don't know what 5% that might be. This is where a broad major like ME really shines.</p>
<p>@ CMU he can double major in Mech E/BME, it's not too hard. With some finagling he could probably fufill med school reqs too.</p>