<p>Does anyone know of any colleges with decent bioengineering programs? All rankings and listings always include biomedical engineering as well, which in my mind is very different. According to MIT's BE department, "Biological Engineering where engineering principles in design, synthesis, and analysis are applied to biology at the molecular and cellular level, in contrast to Biomedical Engineering, which is the application of traditional engineering disciplines to medical problems without any necessary grounding in molecular life sciences."</p>
<p>I'm pretty certain this is what I want to study as an undergrad, and I don't really think it's worth going to a college that doesn't have an undergrad BE program, unless the school has a somewhat relevant undergrad program with a BE grad program (good quality of undergrad education is nice too).</p>
<p>So this is what I've come up with so far:
<reach>
MIT
Stanford
Princeton
Caltech
Harvard (grad only)</reach></p>
<p><match lower="" reach="">
Berkeley
Cornell
U Penn</match></p>
<p><match>
UCLA</match></p>
<p><safety>
UCSB (grad only)
UC Davis</safety></p>
<p><??? / Don't really want to attend>
U Illinois
U Washington
Rice
IIT</p>
<p>While I think I have a chance of getting into at least a couple of the top schools, I'd like to have a more balanced list of colleges I'm applying to, rather than 6 reaches and 3 matches/safeties.</p>
<p>So can anyone help me find some colleges with undergrad bioengineering programs (in CA would be nice)?</p>