<p>I really like Rice and I was really curious if there are any programs at rice that would be like a Health and Society, International/public Health, or health policy type of program.
I have searched through the Rice website and it seems as though there are opportunities at the Baker institute and other centers like that but there aren't any degrees available.
Does anyone know of anything or even anything similar?
What kind of options could you have to create such a major?</p>
<p>A global health minor just started last year, and you can concentrate in health policy within the policy studies major.</p>
<p>Go to Rice! Rice has one of the better pre-med programs in the country, with access to places like the Texas Medical Center and some of the research done there (as well as medicine-related courses in other areas). Also, it has the Baker Institute for Public Policy, one of the best political think tanks in the country. You've got the two together, and you could seriously do exactly what you want to do. </p>
<p>Rice is too small to have a major in absolutely everything. They have a lot, and you can specialize within your major to focus on what you want to do. So don't worry if there's not a major with exactly what you want to do.</p>
<p>As a side note, I have a friend who designed something in a class, and is on a project implementing that project in a clinic in southern Africa. That seems to be the sort of idea you're after--medicine as it's applied internationally. Maybe I'm wrong though?</p>
<p>I think you can talk to this one lady (She's the director of health careers/sciences) and i bet she would love to make a custom or find a major that suits you best.</p>
<p>ya jon314...my views have kinda shifted a bit and I think there are tons of awesome opportunities at Rice to make whatever I want happen.
I have never really considered a Bioengineering program but after reading about students who engineer things then put them to use throughout the world, it has inspired me. (just like your friend) I think this could potentially be a very cool course of study and would certainly prepare me as premed. </p>
<p>Thank you iambored10....i am going to try and find her email and send her an email. I am visiting rice in mid-august. Maybe i will set up a meeting with her then. I was thinking about possibly emailing proffs in my prospectus area of study too.<br>
Do you guys thinks this would bode well for me when it came to admissions?</p>
<p>Is this who you are thinking of?</p>
<p>Health Professions Advising: Dr Dana McDowelle</p>
<p>zfox - emailing the professors probably will not help in regard to admission, but it wont hurt either.</p>
<p>When you do come to Rice, it can be a small plus as you have corresponded with the professors already. </p>
<p>End result: go for it</p>
<p>yeah blackeyedsusan. She really helps with choosing courses and majors for your intended "study"</p>
<p>this may seem like a kinda dumb question considering all of Rice's departments are probably difficult. But....how competitive and hard is the bioengineering department?
Would you guys say it is more on the competitive side or the friendly/collaboration side?
(I don't want to say cut-throat/laid back because no top schools are truly laid back. But I mean are the students competitive with themselves or others just as much?)
How hard is it to succeed in the program?!</p>
<p>Bioengineering and chemical engineering--arguable two of the toughest majors at Rice (one might throw in architecture as well, though I know less about that major)--have some of the best student environments of any major. Students who major in either of those subjects get very close to one another, and they end up working with each other a lot. The reason is because it's so difficult, students have to use each other in order to get the grade they want. The other reason for the "community" created by the two majors is SDL--Senior Design Lab. Students are essentially divided up into groups and work on a design project during their senior year to finish their major. They work with each other night and day in the lab working through problems, doing their project, etc. Everyone manages to get through the program, perhaps due in large part to the support and encouragement of the students around them. Cutthroat is perhaps the last word you would use to describe students in those two majors. It is indeed very difficult (just look at the requirements!), but very rewarding.</p>
<p>Hopeful BioE major with global health concentration, here, and dude: that last post has me SO FREAKIN EXCITED for next year!!!</p>
<p>I've got nothing else to contribute to this thread other than enthusiasm, though, sorry...</p>
<p>Im kinda nervous that the BioE major is going to make it really hard to keep a high GPA...do many people go on to medical school afterwards?</p>
<p>yes. (10 char)</p>