<p>Simple question: which is better for biomed undergraduate, Duke or MIT? My friend got this thing from Duke so he's already accepted there and MIT RD, but he's a finalist for some full ride scholarship at Duke that's really prestigious. Assuming he gets a full ride from both (which may not be certain), which is better for biomed? Btw, I'm going to MIT (got accepted EA and plan on going into Physics), so any other info about MIT you want to tell me would be great too! Thanks. :)
And yes, I realize I'm posting in the Duke forum, so I'm posting this in the MIT forum as well.</p>
<p>if it was for any other engineering except biomedical engineering, i would have easily said MIT. For biomedical engineering however, Duke has a very strong program, arguably? better than MIT’s.</p>
<p>If you really have a full ride at MIT, i would probably go MIT. However, if there is a significant cost difference, i would highly consider Duke. Also look at Boston vs Durham. Im my opinion, Boston is much better place for a college student, except maybe for the weather. Duke has the more beautiful campus (again, only in my opinion) though.</p>
<p>Just some things to think about.</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight.
If he doesn’t get a full ride to MIT, he definitely won’t go, so it makes his choice simpler, I suppose.
I really like the campuses of both, but I’ve visited MIT and only seen videos/pics of Duke. From what I’ve seen, though, I like MIT’s architecture much better. But that’s just me, so it doesn’t much matter.
I’ve heard that MIT only accepts a few (~40?) to its BE program, but I’m not really sure about that. Do you know where you found out about the strength of each of their programs?</p>
<p>I didn’t think MIT gave full rides???</p>
<p>Essentially full ride, that is. The average indebtedness is ~$15,000 at graduation, which is nothing. They pay full tuition (36k out of 50k total) if you make less than $75k. I don’t think they have merit-based scholarships though.</p>
<p>ok, thanks for clearing that up</p>