<p>Hey everyone, I'm enrolled into a community college and I wanted to do engineering and premed, then I found out I can do both at the same time with biomedical engineering. I was wondering what public or private universities have bme/premed in CA. I was also wondering what would be the total cost of premed school if I graduated. Would it be a good idea to work in bme and when I get enough money apply for premed school? How much should I be saving up? I just finished my freshmen year in community college</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>[List</a> Of University Majors by Discipline](<a href=“Welcome to ASSIST”>Welcome to ASSIST) lists UC and CSU schools with Bioengineering majors (and a few others that fall into the category when searching for majors on [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) ).</p>
<p>Use that web site to find out what courses you need to take to transfer to each degree program. For costs, go to each school’s web site and check for the cost of attendance and the financial aid information.</p>
<p>Be aware that you need a very high GPA and MCAT score to get into any medical school in the US, and the job and career prospects for Bioengineering are not generally as good as most other kinds of engineering (see Berkeley’s career survey here: <a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm</a> ).</p>
<p>I wanted to do engineering and premed, then I found out I can do both at the same time with biomedical engineering.</p>
<p>You can do both with ANY engineering…not just biomed engineering.</p>
<p>That said…engineering is a tough gig. Unless you’re certain that you can have a very high GPA, it’s not a good major for pre-med. You won’t get bonus points for being an engineering applicant to med school.</p>
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<p>Actually, ucb, the employment data for most engineering fields looked pretty bleak in the data set you linked to. A higher percentage of English majors (38%) and classics majors (31%) were employed than bioengineers (24%), civil/environmental engineers (18%), engineering science majors (25%), or materials science majors (11%). Mechanical engineers (34%) were in about the same ballpark as English and classics majors. Only industrial engineers/operations research majors (62%) and electrical engineers/computer science majors (55%) were heavily employed. </p>
<p>These figures may be a bit misleading because it appears a large percentage in each engineering field were headed to grad school, but it’s not clear what’s the cause and what’s the effect here: were the job numbers so low because engineering grads were postponing work to continue their educations, or were they heading to grad school in large numbers because of bleak job prospects with an undergrad degree?</p>