<p>You can pick any field of engineering to go with biomedical, but the closest are EE, ChemE, and MechE.</p>
<p>They have a Biological Engineering (accredited) major, though, why not that?</p>
<p>You could do biological engineering or biomolecular engineering at Cornell too. These aren't common majors at other places, though.</p>
<p>is that a bad thing?</p>
<p>or is it a blessing? :D</p>
<p>good site, how old is it though?</p>
<p>is it current?</p>
<p>2004 US News ranking (for graduate program; undergrad ranking (if exists) usually mirrors closely):</p>
<p>Rank/School Average assessment
score (5.0=highest)
1. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 4.8
2. Georgia Institute of Technology 4.5
? University of CaliforniaSan Diego (Jacobs) 4.5
4. University of Washington 4.4
5. University of Pennsylvania 4.3
6. Case Western Reserve University (OH) 4.2
? Duke University (NC) 4.2
8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4.0
9. Boston University 3.9
10. Rice University (TX) 3.8
? University of MichiganAnn Arbor 3.8
12. Northwestern University (IL) 3.7
? University of CaliforniaBerkeley/University of CaliforniaSan Francisco 3.7
14. Washington University in St. Louis 3.5
15. University of Pittsburgh 3.4
? University of TexasAustin 3.4
? University of Utah 3.4
18. Columbia University (Fu Foundation) (NY) 3.3
? University of Virginia 3.3
20. Arizona State University 3.2
? California Institute of Technology 3.2
? University of Southern California (Andrew and Erna Viterbi) 3.2
? Vanderbilt University (TN) 3.2
24. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) 3.1
? Tulane University (LA) 3.1
26. University of MinnesotaTwin Cities 3.0
? University of WisconsinMadison 3.0
28. Penn State UniversityUniversity Park 2.9
? Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station 2.9
? University of CaliforniaDavis 2.9
31. Marquette University (WI) 2.8
? University of AlabamaBirmingham 2.8
33. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 2.7
? Drexel University (PA) 2.7
? Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette (IN) 2.7
? SUNYStony Brook 2.7
37. Clemson University (SC) 2.6
? Cornell University (NY) 2.6
? Rutgers State UniversityNew Brunswick (NJ) 2.6
? University of Iowa 2.6
? University of Rochester (NY) 2.6
42. Ohio State University 2.5</p>
<p>Ok, I'm going to have to plug my school, for no one's mentioned it as a serious contender yet.</p>
<p>Next year I'll be a freshman Electrical Engineer at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. It's ranked #1 for engineering among colleges that do not offer a PhD. Rose is relatively small...my class has ~500 students, and the school as a whole has about 1800 to 1900.</p>
<p>Rose is most well-known for its teaching staff. It doesn't have great research, its location is pretty bland (small podunk town in the middle of nowhere...Terre Haute, IN), and it doesn't offer any majors outside of engineering, math, and science (it does offer some liberal arts minors, though). But its teaching is world-renown, for the teachers don't get tenure for publishing papers: they're judged based upon their teaching proficiency.</p>
<p>Rose isn't very difficult to get into as long as you have a good GPA and APPLY EARLY! A friend of mine scored a 1590 on his SAT but was not admitted to Rose because his GPA is pretty low (he had a few C's in humanities classes). I scored 60 points lower than he but had a top 10 GPA and was accepted. I was also probably an easier admit because I applied early and made a visit...since Rose has rolling admission, I'm sure this helped me some. </p>
<p>The average SAT score is low at Rose (mid-to-high 1300's), but, again, GPA is weighted more in the admissions process. And, as many have said before, difficulty of admission is not directly related to quality of education. Rose is well-known for putting out wonderful engineers; ask any grad school or engineering firm, and they'll say great things about Rose.</p>
<p>Although Rose is great academically, it lacks in other areas. I visited Terre Haute, and the town is pretty run-down. Downtown definitely needs a facelift, and the smell of the nearby paper mill doesn't help. Terre Haute's weather isn't all that desireable, either, because it's cold, snowy, and cloudy in Terre Haute. The student body is terribly uniform...most people who go there are your typical white, middle-class, nerdy men. The male/female ratio's something like 4/1. VERY few minorities...even asians, who typically make up a large part of the engineering population, are scarce. The campus is quite small, as is the student body, as I stated earlier.</p>
<p>However, all this is eclipsed by Rose's best qualities: its teaching staff and its warm atmosphere. Many say that the best thing about Rose is that it has a very homey and close-knit feel...one college book said that it's an "engineering school with a heart." All the professors give out their home phone numbers to their students the first day. In the dorms, there is an "open door policy," meaning that students are encouraged to keep the doors of their rooms open during the day. That helps foster a great sense of community.</p>
<p>I do hope that you'll consider Rose in the future! For more information, check out <a href="http://www.rose-hulman.edu%5B/url%5D">www.rose-hulman.edu</a> . I do hope that you'll fall in love with it in the same way I have!</p>
<p>EDIT: Good gracious! I didn't realize I'd written so much. Sorry about that. I also wanted to link you to the facts page, at <a href="http://www.rose-hulman.edu/admissions/facts/facts.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.rose-hulman.edu/admissions/facts/facts.htm</a></p>
<p>Wow, Terre Haute kind of ruins it for Rose-Hulman then. Sorry, but there has to be balance for me!</p>