<p>Biomedical Engineering
What's the course work like? Does it consume a lot of time?
How did you decide on this major, and what do you like about the major/career?
Btw I've read a lot of different sources saying to earn a master's degree along side a bachelor's degree will make obtaining jobs better, is that true?</p>
<p>BME requires the most diverse course load of all the engineering majors because you are using chemical, material, cs and mechanical engineering in order to develop projects. If you aren’t a capable programmer you might not want to pick this option. As for the actual courses like statics and dynamics which are heavily physics based all engineering majors eventually have to take it along with three levels of calc and differential equations. There’s also the fact that unlike some other engineering majors bme’s are required to take a course in orgo which means a year of undergrad chem with lab. As for your career options there’s a lot of fancy work going on with new medical machines for surgery and diagnostics or you could go into research in a genome area. Problem is most ugrad bme programs aren’t respectable on their own depending how long they have been in the school so you may want to go to grad school for bme or you could ugrad in bme and then go to grad school and get an mba or do another engineering discipline to broaden your horizons.</p>
<p>Which are some of the more respectable undergraduate Biomedical Engineering programs?</p>
<p>Here is the list of the 2012 US News Undergrad Biomedical Engineering programs. However, keep in mind that there are plenty of other respectable bme schools other than these.</p>
<ol>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>University of California-San Diego</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>U Penn</li>
<li>University of Washington</li>
<li>University of California- Berkeley </li>
<li>Michigan- Ann Arbor</li>
<li>Boston U</li>
<li>Case Western</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>WUSTL</li>
<li>University of Texas- Austin</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
</ol>