<p>Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to do a biology BS and then apply for a BiomedE masters?
thanks</p>
<p>You can and a lot of schools have guidelines set up for students like this. Most admissions requirements for Biomedical Engineering programs include either undergraduate engineering degrees or science degrees with calculus and calculus based physics coursework completed.
I know that Cornell University’s M. Eng, not MS, specifically has two different degree requirement outlines for students depending on what type of undergraduate degree they received. To my understanding they will cover the same material but include different undergraduate coursework that will have to be completed in preparation for the M. Eng degree.
In some cases you may have to take a few undergraduate engineering course depending on your specialization but that you be the same for an engineering student going into the same program but they would have to take a few undergraduate biology courses.</p>
<p>Thanks! another question, will employers care that your undergraduate degree was biology? will that give you any disadvantage over others who did engineering? or they are treated the same?</p>
<p>I don’t have any experience with either of those questions but I will try to answer based off what I do know.
An employer shouldn’t care if your undergraduate degree was in biology or engineering if you’re looking for a biomedical engineering job. The preparation that the masters degree has given you should mostly nullify any differences you’d get between a biologist and an engineer, barring the differences in how they think. You should be fine as a biology undergrad going into Biomedical Engineering for graduate school.</p>