<p>This seems like a very popular path nowadays, so what I am wondering is whether employers for such companies prefer specific engineering majors? Does it matter? Personally I'm thinking of doing BME. Do some engineering majors have more graduates than others that eventually go on to do more business-related work?</p>
<p>If it's finance quant stuff, EE, CE, and Biology seem very good. I don't know about BME but if it's anything like ME then it should'nt be too bad.</p>
<p>Consulting/Management would probably like good grades and social skills.</p>
<p>Biomedical engineering seems to be rather different from mechanical engineering, but I guess it depends on what fields you concentrate on. Thanks for the thoughts though. Anyone else?</p>
<p>It's not all that different actually if you're talking about the biomechanical side of biomedical engineering. My school didn't have a BME concentration, but we didn have a few BME courses, which were taught by professors in the ME department,</p>
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<p>I would say that the cleanest, straightest shot is Industrial Engineering/Operations Research (IEOR). Your school might call it something else like 'Systems Engineering', 'Operations Management', 'Production Engineering' 'Management Science', etc. but it's all roughly the same thing: applying technical skill to improve management and administration, and that's highly applicable to the worlds of finance and consulting.</p>