<p>So I won't bore with a long background, but basically I got into the bioengineering program but I have been thinking about majoring in some type of biology instead. Opinions/personal experience of the differences?</p>
<p>do you like math or physics over biology?</p>
<p>Well I like math and am good at it, as for physics, well I got an A in AP and a 4 on the test but I feel more comfortable with biology I think. I definitely don’t want to do premed though, I would focus on ecology or micro I think, but I’m just not sure what I could do with it? Like I’ve read I could do research, but what does that really mean and entail?</p>
<p>have you considered biomedical engineering?</p>
<p>My bioengineering friends all easily found good jobs. My friends who did biology (and other non engineering versions of a life science discipline) can’t find any decent jobs.</p>
<p>I say stick with the engineering route.</p>
<p>These links may help shed light on the differences you may see in career prospects depending on if you go engineering vs non engineering route:</p>
<p>[Biology</a> Major Jobs - MajoredIn](<a href=“http://www.majoredin.com/jobs/Biology]Biology”>http://www.majoredin.com/jobs/Biology)
[Bioengineering</a> Major Jobs - MajoredIn](<a href=“http://www.majoredin.com/jobs/Bioengineering]Bioengineering”>http://www.majoredin.com/jobs/Bioengineering)</p>
<p>Good luck with whatever you decide!</p>
<p>The job prospects and salaries are so much higher in engineering vs biology that I wouldn’t even consider biology especially if I was already in engineering. Biology is typically a prerequisite for professional school or people who graduate end up working min wage jobs, or crappy temp lab tech jobs.</p>
<p>You don’t want to end up like these people
<a href=“http://www.indeed.com/forum/gen/Career-Advice/Bachelors-degree-Biology-can-you-do-it/t132436[/url]”>http://www.indeed.com/forum/gen/Career-Advice/Bachelors-degree-Biology-can-you-do-it/t132436</a></p>
<p>Biology graduates are a dime a dozen. Engineering’s more smug but it does have better job prospects.</p>
<p>Compare biology majors to engineering majors here if post-graduation outcome is of concern:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys-4.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys-4.html</a></p>
<p>I was in a similar position to you about a year ago. I was majoring in bioengineering but was finding my science/math classes much more interesting than engineering. After doing research in neuroscience during my second semester and over the summer, I realized that I really liked research. I ended up switching my major to physics and I am much happier now… I found bioengineering to be way to specialized. I’ve since discovered a liking for earth science and I’ll be doing an earthquake seismology internship this summer and next year. Physics is great because it leaves so many doors open for grad school where you can specialize once you find what you like. The caveat with this is that the physics education is so broad that you won’t get any specific skills and will likely have to go to grad school. I would say that biology is probably even worse than physics in this respect. Regardless, I’d suggest trying research ASAP.</p>