<p>I was accepted to GW's biomedical engineering program with the hopes of attending med school after I graduate (I want to go into Orthopedics). I was given a good scholarship from the school (which evens out the high tuition) with admission to the Dean's Scholars in Quantitative and Natural Sciences Program. </p>
<p>I was wondering if someone could tell me how the engineering department is at GW. How is the quality of the education? How well it would prepare me for post grad engineering programs or BME jobs if I don't decide to pursue medicine?</p>
<p>BUMP, I would like to know this also as i was accepted as a Computer Science major at SEAS, and i’ve heard both extremely good reviews of gwu engineering programs and extremely bad.</p>
<p>I have been looking for reviews everywhere for GW engineering and can’t seem to find one.
I checked its ABET accreditation for BME (which it has) and it is ranked 94th for engineering. I have been accepted into schools that are higher ranked than GW but I believe the university has been investing a lot of money into the the engineering and applied technology department in recent years. Not to mention it has great internships and research.</p>
<p>However, the lack of reviews and its ranking is making me hesitant.</p>
<p>Thats exactly the same for me, i got into schools that are pretty well recognized for comp sci, but they don’t offer the same opportunities as gw in other fields. I like GW because its in DC and offers great opportunities because of that, but i heard people talk about gw as if elliot was the only good program there, and that worries me.</p>
<p>I googled alot, e.g. “engineering at GW CC”, also just reading around the CC page for GW, every now and then someone would comment comp sci is good and another would say gw is one-dimensional-only really good at International Affairs.</p>
<p>I think i saw this before, i make it out to mean that the pure engineering courses like civil and mechanical aren’t as good as they are made out to be. I did consider double majoring in econ also, so maybe that is a possible route. I’m not sure much of what he says applies to biomed and other more specific engineering majors.</p>
<p>I heard that the BME is better than their other engineering programs but I dont know by how much. You should see if GW is ABET accredited for CS.</p>
<p>Hey all. I also applied for a CS major at GW. Someone told me at one point GW was ranked #74 for Computer Science… not sure how true that is now. Anyways, I found that the CS program at GW is ABET accredited [url=<a href=“http://www.cs.gwu.edu/abet/mission.html]CS”>http://www.cs.gwu.edu/abet/mission.html]CS</a> Accreditation<a href=“check%20out%20some%20of%20the%20outcomes%20expected%20for%20students”>/url</a>. However, only the B.S. in Computer Science program is accredited - not the B.A. I’m curious what other people find… Since I’ve been accepted into UW, which has a superior computer science program, I might end up going there instead… we shall see.</p>
<p>Pink - Did you happen to get in as a Freshman Direct to the UW CS program? Also, did you know that it doesn’t have ABET accreditation? I don’t think the accreditation matters too much–at least not at the UW.</p>
<p>MSNDIS - Not a direct admit unfortunately, and the competitiveness of the major does intimidate me for when I apply at the end of sophomore year, so I’m definitely taking that into account when choosing between schools. Subconsciously I think I knew UW’s CS program wasn’t ABET accredited, but honestly most students who graduate from the CS program have jobs lined up before they graduate, and the Seattle area is quite the hub for tech jobs right now.</p>