Does UCSB have a bioengineering major?

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<p>Hi
I am a senior in high school, and i am about to apply to UCs. I want to major in Bioengineering, and i heard that SB is great for bio, so i was looking at the majors it has, and i couldnt find Bioengineering in the undergrad majors. My family friend who goes to Caltech told me that Bioengineering is a broad term, and that it can also be disguised under biochem/biotech and other names. </p>

<p>If there is a bioengineering program at UCSB, what is it called, and how would you rate it?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Couldn’t you have researched this yourself?</p>

<p>[UCSB</a> Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucsb.edu/allmajors.asp#eng_ccs]UCSB”>http://www.admissions.ucsb.edu/allmajors.asp#eng_ccs)</p>

<p>No, UCSB does not have a bioengineering Major</p>

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<p>FutureENTSurgeon, be nice this forum is to help people, not criticize them.</p>

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<p>I know and I help people a lot but wouldn’t you agree that people should research their question before posting a thread?
I see how my comment might have come across as mean and I didn’t mean to come across that way.</p>

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<p>Generally, yes but she/he did her research if you read her/his post</p>

<p>“i couldnt find Bioengineering in the undergrad majors. My family friend who goes to Caltech told me that Bioengineering is a broad term, and that it can also be disguised under biochem/biotech and other names.”</p>

<p>He/she was just wondering if he/she skipped over it somehow.</p>

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<p>Ferrari,</p>

<p>College of Engineering</p>

<p>Chemical Engineering B.S.
Computer Engineering B.S. **
Computer Science B.S. **
Electrical Engineering B.S.
Mechanical Engineering B.S.</p>

<p>that is the list of engineering majors we have under the College of Engineering.</p>

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<p>Ferrari,</p>

<p>UCSB’s majors are organized in a generalized manner, but keep in mind that there is a lot of inter-disciplinary research that goes on at UCSB. You could be a chemical engineering major, yet get heavily involved in research related to Bio-E. There are research institutes set up in UCSB (i.e Institute for collaborative Biotechnologies, and center for stem cell biology and engineering) where professors and students from different departments collaborate to do research. </p>

<p>Check this website out: [Bioengineering</a> at UC Santa Barbara | UCSB Engineering Industry Center](<a href=“http://industry.ucsb.edu/technology-leadership/bioengineering]Bioengineering”>http://industry.ucsb.edu/technology-leadership/bioengineering)</p>

<p>If I can give you an advice, it would be to visit UCSB and meet a professor or researcher from these institutes to see if you can be a student of an engineering department who also helps doing research in Bio-E. Who knows may be you’ll learn something new or at least have a contact of a researcher. Good luck.</p>