<p>I am a senior in high school looking at pitt for biomedical engineering. I received both an engineering scholarship and a tuition scholarship which cover 4 years, so my question is will 4 years be enough time to complete a major in biomed at pitt? If it takes more time, oos tuition is a lot to cover.</p>
<p>IMO, all majors are designed to be completed in four years, provided you plan well and take slightly above the 12 credit minimum every semester.</p>
<p>It should be if you take enough credits each semester. The engineering advisors are GREAT!</p>
<p>Pitt is also fairly generous with AP credit, which gives most students a bit of a cushion. You can look up the AP credit information on Pitt’s site.</p>
<p>Check your specific major for the AP credit. Engineering is pretty specific about what it will accept.</p>
<p>Thank you all so much! I think one of the things I read somewhere is that for engineering they only accept up to 2 AP credits for humanities, is this correct? But that’s a start at least. I’m super excited!</p>
<p>Yes, only 2 AP credits for humanities :(</p>
<p>I know about the AP credit guidelines, but does anyone have any experience transferring dual enrollment credits?</p>
<p>I have dual enrollment credits. About 18 credits showed up for me but only 4 credits were able to be used to place out of anything. It’s made on a case by case basis, I believe.</p>
<p>I’m not worried about placing out of anything, I’d rather retake Calculus and things like that for my major, but I’m curious if I’d be able to wipe out my gen. eds?</p>
<p>You can knock out 2 of intro courses but they require upper level humanities courses plus a professional writing course.</p>
<p>You will be able to finish in 4 years. Now, you may finish in 5 years if you take a co-op, but your scholarship still convers 8 semesters. if you take 1-2 semester off for co-op, the tuition doesn’t count towards them.</p>
<p>If you plan to double major, it may take you longer to fit in extra classes, but your scholarship will cover 8 semesters.</p>
<p>if you double major, the honors college will extend your scholarship to cover a fifth year! they’re great about it. biomed is definitely do-able in four years, unless you do a second major; few bioE’s co-op but it is possible.<br>
remember though, it’s extremely hard to get a bio engr job without a masters/doctorate.</p>
<p>That’s a great bit of news about the double major extension, RachelleyLee. Thank you. I will pass that on.</p>
<p>I have never heard of a fifth-year scholarship from the Honors College for double majoring.</p>
<p>The info is listed in the Honors College stuff we received. They will pay for the 5th year but you have to get prior approval. I would think it is quite difficult for an engineering major especially since they restrict the number of AP credits that the engineering school will accept. </p>
<p>So if interested, I would think you need to start early to try to get all your requirements in and more importantly, you would have to get UHC approval. It has to be a dual degree program from the School of Engineering and the School of Arts & Sciences. They also will pay an extra year for a master’s degree in a humanity or social science major but once again, you need prior approval from UHC. They won’t pay for a master’s degree in engineering though.</p>
<p>I wonder how many actually try to accomplish this and if you can’t get it done in five years – you would have to pay out of pocket to finish up the double degree program or master’s degree.</p>
<p>pitt freshmen bioE here. UHC covers 5th year… also pitt has bioengineering, which is essentially synonymous with biomed. it is do-able in 4 years, however you have many options that may delay your graduation i.e. co-op, double major. double majoring will be difficult as most freshmen engineers are required to take the maximum of 18 credits the entire year and engineering at pitt is no joke. you will have some form of chemistry, physics, calculus, programming class, and a humanities elective for both semesters. </p>
<p>and yes, you may only use AP credit for 2 of 4 required humanities electives. i used one of mine first semester, and i’m saving my last one for fall semester of soph year when i have organic chemistry.</p>
<p>I responded to this thread already, but I got some new information that I thought might be helpful. (I’m a sophomore BioE w00t w00t)</p>
<p>About the covering the fifth year thing: </p>
<p>I actually recently went straight to the Honors College a couple weeks ago. I wanted to see if they could extend my scholarship to cover my ninth semester at school because I’m co-oping (if you are thinking of co-oping, don’t be in dismay- typically you don’t have to pay for 9 semesters of school… it’s a long story). My scholarship only covers 8 semesters, so I don’t have anything to cover the 9th.</p>
<p>The woman I talked to who handles scholarships and things (can’t recall her name) said that the Honors College only extends scholarships if you double major in TWO DIFFERENT schools. So they won’t extend it if you double major in two arts & sciences majors, but they will if you major in engineering and a major in arts & sciences. So, it could work if for example you wanted to do bioengineering and math, but not for biology and math. (BioE and pre-med don’t count, in case anyone was curious.)</p>
<p>However, I think this is due to the terrible economy right now. Pitt is getting squeezed in terms of money, and its endowment isn’t so great at the moment, so extending scholarships is not a viable option. People in my situation have had it done in the past, but at the moment it ain’t gonna happen. But you can bet that next year I will definitely be asking again!!</p>