<p>Can anyone provide any information on schools offering biomedical engineering degrees for students who are not in the top 10% of the class and have good Test scores, and a B+ average? Or are those who major in this field all ultra smart? I am asking as I look or safety schools...Thx.</p>
<p>Look at the ABET website - you can search by major and state for ABET accredited programs. The admission standards of the schools are not all the same.</p>
<p>Biomedical may be a bit more demanding, as it’s usually recommended that you get a Master’s degree (which requires keeping a high GPA score, and scoring well on the GRE). Most folks get a standard BS degree (in ME, EE, etc.) and then apply to grad school for the Biomedical Masters degree. You may notice that some of the schools you are looking at only offer the master’s level degree and not the BS degree in Biomedical.</p>
<p>UAB in alabama. (birmingham) only one in the state that offers biomedical engineering… a b student should still qualify for merit aid automatically. oos cost for tuition, dorm, food etc will be about 28K minus scholarships</p>
<p>Case Western Reserve has biomedical engineering and a relatively high acceptance rate (around 50%?) I don’t think it wold be a safety, but maybe a match?</p>
<p>Just looked it up, and they said the acceptance rate dropped from 54% in 2012 to 39% in 2013. Interesting. I wonder what their yield was and if they had to go to the waitlist.</p>
<p>Thanks for all responses…can you, and anyone else, speak to how the University of Alabama is seen in the college world? Is it considered rigorous? A party school? Offer a good balance between studying and fun? How is their engineering school ranked? Retention rate of freshmen? Diversity? Thanks for any and all thoughts and answers to my questions…Los feel free to share any insights you all have…</p>
<p>UA in tuscaloosa and UAB are 2 different schools. UAB is the only one that offers biomedical engineering in this state. About 26% AA, 11k undergrads. urban campus, not a party or football school. only about 6% greek.
It is known in the state as the science/med related school due to it being the home of one of the med schools and the close interaction between the hospitals, med school/grad school and undergrad programs. UAB’s med school is in the top 30 with many of their programs in the top 10. student teacher ratio is about 18:1,
the campus is not the beautiful old building charm…primarily newer (>1967) red brick buildings but it has a central green area around which is surrounded by all the buildings a student uses like dorms, dept buildings, rec center, library etc. i personally like the campus. The rec center was named one of the top 25 college rec centers this year. so although it is considered an urban campus it is quite compact for students.</p>
<p>about 2500 students live on campus, and they are building a new dorm as they are at 100% capacity. A lot of students also live just off campus in the southside area. the campus is surrounded by about 5-6 hospitals. </p>
<p>it has automatic merit aid for certain stats , it also has full ride scholarships for national merit/acheivement/hispanic scholars. They have a “generic” honors college for high stat students but they also have honors “programs” (4 different ones) Sci tech is about 60 students per year with a research focus…my son has been doing research since his first semester as a freshman. the 4 years of students interact all through their undergrad, have specialized courses like “public speaking for scientific presentations”, retreats, peer mentors and an advisor. UAB also has honors tracks for different majors, and a 5th year track for masters. If interested in biomedical engineering i would encourage you to think about sci tech </p>
<p>In the 2010 Princeton Review College Rankings, UAB is listed as one of the Best Southeastern Colleges and among the top 15 percent of colleges and universities in the U.S.
In addition, out of their 371 Best College Rankings, UAB was ranked third in race/class interaction and 11th for happiest students,</p>
<p>As of 2009, the Carnegie Foundation classifies UAB as an institution of “very high research activity"—the only university in Alabama to receive that classification, and one of only 96 public and private universities in the entire nation.</p>
<p><a href=“Univers - Wikipedia…_at_Birmingham%5B/url%5D”>Univers - Wikipedia…_at_Birmingham</a></p>
<p>Its retention rate is about 80-85% i think, however its graduation rate does not look good on the surface… there are many students that go part time and that of course reflects in the graduation rate…there are stats available in their data that show that students that enter with scores of 28 and above and strong gpa’s have a rate of about 7-80% in four years</p>
<p>Thanks parent56…this gives me a better sense of the school…is your son studying bioeng? Dd he consider ther schools, if so, which ones? Thanks.</p>
<p>ontocollege, sent you a pm…but no he is not biomedical engineering, he is chem and biology.</p>
<p>and oops that last line in my previous post should have been 70 not 7</p>