Hi everyone, I was hoping for some advice on whether to go with Johns Hopkins or Georgia Tech for my course of studies. I recently found I have been admitted to both universities, but I unfortunately didn’t get into Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins, which is the major I am hoping to study. I do know that at Johns Hopkins, I can pursue another engineering path as an undergraduate and possibly do Biomedical Engineering for my masters and Ph.D., but was wondering if it is worth passing up Hopkins potentially to go for Georgia Tech. Hopkins has been one of my dream schools for the longest time, and as such I am very confused on which would be better. I hope to potentially do an M.D./Ph.D. or at least a Ph.D. in the future and as such thought Hopkins is a better decision, but I am currently unsure as I may not get to pursue my major. Thank you all for reading, and any advice is greatly appreciated.
both are fantastic schools for BME, you cannot go wrong with either choice. You will still get a PhD at GaTech. You should go to GTech, they are arguably better than Hopkins and at least equally regarded if not more.
@vishmanx : The undergraduate school choice does not really matter as much for MD/MDPhD and both can easily feed you into solid PhD programs. Any school with excellent research infrastructure and good science education has those covered. As far as I know, Georgia Tech may be better in the latter for sure. They’ve worked a lot more on finding innovative ways to run their BME courses and STEM programs in general. Hopkins until recently has been very traditional and only relatively recently launched initiatives to fix many of its STEM courses.
You probably just thought the more prestigious private school would provide better opps, but the prestige gap narrows for those 2 when you only consider STEM undergraduate. If one made it hard to do research (again, needed for any PhD option), then I would put one ahead of the other, but that is simply not the case. Any student completing a degree and doing solidly at either program would be looked upon very favorably by graduate programs.