<p>Is it possible to double major in Biomedical Engineering and Economics in 4 years? Might be an unfair or unanswerable question.</p>
<p>When i went to an information session they made it seam that double majoring at JHU was easier than at other schools because of the lack of core curriculum. Their ‘core curriculum’ simply requires that you take a certain number of classes in each of four (i think) categories that all of their classes have been divided into. Therefore if you take a lot of economics classes they can serve as part of your core curriculum requirements for your BME major and visa versa.</p>
<p>I know someone double majoring in BME and some other (non-BME related) major. Can’t remember what it is though. It’ll be tough, but it’s definitely possible… especially if you’re willing to take classes over the summer as well</p>
<p>My brother is triple majoring in BME, Applied Math, and Economics. As long as the majors are somewhat-related, it is possible. You would need to enter with a TON of college credit, though.</p>
<p>i don’t know about econ requirements, but you can double major in BME and Applied Math in 3 years. 
JHU is very awesome with AP credits (Calc BC, Chemistry, and Comp Sci in my case) and BME and Applied Math have a lot of good overlap.
I reckon Econ classes can overlap with BME H/S course requirements, so you could probably graduate double majoring BME and Econ in 3.5 years if you wanted.</p>
<p>The Econ major doesn’t require that many courses. You need calculus and statistics, elements of macro, elements of micro, macro theory, micro theory, econometrics, and five electives within the major. You’ll already have the math as a BME. It’s generally pretty easy to double major at Hopkins. The only potential double majoring pit fall would be if a required freshman BME course conflicts with one of the elements courses… if you can’t take elements freshman year, it will make completing the rest of the requirements kind of a headache since those are prereqs for the rest of the courses in the department. It could still be done in that case, but it would be difficult (unless you wanted to take summer courses… then it wouldn’t be a big deal at all). You could check the course schedule to see how that works out.</p>
<p>I was a BME/Econ double major and it’s definitely doable. </p>
<p>An important thing to think about is why you want to do the double major. During my freshman year, I actually thought about minoring or double majoring in everything from math to physics to econ to business (entrepreneurship and management minor). I initially started taking econ classes just to fulfill my distribution requirements, then decided to do a minor, and once I finished the minor, decided to double major since I had room in my schedule. I went to talk to the econ department advisor and his advice to me was to keep taking econ classes I found interesting, and if I ended up with a double major, then that’s great, but I ended up a couple classes short, there was absolutely no reason to take a couple boring classes to turn it into a double major. Unless I was looking to go straight into a job where economics was directly relevant (I wasn’t), he said there would be no advantage to having the double major - he told me it would even be okay if I decided to apply to econ PhD programs without the econ major. </p>
<p>He actually didn’t sign my double major paperwork at that point, and I officially only became a double major in February of my last semester once I decided there were enough interesting econ classes that I would end up with enough econ credits. Just some food for thought. Don’t lock yourself into the double major at the expense of taking other interesting classes that you won’t have a chance to ever take later in life.</p>