<p>How hard is BioE at UCB? </p>
<p>How much free time does the average bioengineering student have?</p>
<p>Are the professors good or are most classes taught by TAs? </p>
<p>Is it true that I will be taking almost the same classes as all the other engineering students my first year?</p>
<p>How difficult is bioengineering compared to eecs?</p>
<p>Just letting you know that Berkeley's BioE program isn't yet accredited.</p>
<p>UCSD has better program.</p>
<p>Dude, don't worry about it - accreditation means next to nothing, simply because there are no jobs that are meant for bioengineers...</p>
<p>I'm guessing employers will treat you like any other engineer that's come out of Berkeley.</p>
<p>I, too, want to know the answers to the above questions!</p>
<p>give berkeley a couple of years, and it'll probably surpass sd. it's better in just about everything else. and accreditation really doesn't mean anything (if you check, a lot of the best schools in america aren't accredited in this field because their programs are good enough that they don't need to be validated by some random thing that just hems in their freedom).</p>
<p>bioengineering is a rather broad major. eecs is more focused. i'd say the difficulty depends a large part on your strengths and interests. and of the engineers i know, none of them lack a life or are dying from the workload/difficulty of engineering.</p>
<p>ABET accreditation means absolutely nothing, this coming from someone from my family who graduated from Cal bioE
bioE is a little quirky at Cal, you take classes from all sort of engineering majors
all engineering students must take the physics 7 series, the math series, a chem class. BioE needs to take a programming class, most took 61A.<br>
A lot of bioE students also take EE40.<br>
My sister took 20N as well.
So basically by the time she's a junior, all of her classes are very similar to the EECS kids.<br>
No classes are taught by TA. TA holds discussion sessions, which help you with the lectures, answer any questions you might have, collect homework, give weekly quiz, etc...<br>
Compare to EECS, more bioE conducted research at Cal. probably due to smaller number of students in the major.
BioE at Cal is HARD!</p>
<p>bioE has more free time than the hardcore EECS who did EECS 150, 152, or CS 162, 164. But if you compare EECS 140 series, not much difference.
a lot of bioE students take EE 143 and 130 as well.</p>
<p>BioE prereqs are hard
BioE ud's are the easiest biology ud's (as per thecampusbuddy.com)</p>
<p>What are UD's?</p>
<p>ud = upper division</p>
<p>How hard is BioE at UCB? </p>
<p>If math and science is your thing, not hard at all. In upper division BioE classes, the curve is set around A-/B+ so you really have to try to get a C. (I've taken more than one class there everyone got either an A or a B.) I don't know about the new curriculum, but in my case, I never had to enter a laboratory again after sophomore year. Not true from my EECS and ChemE friends. If you venture into other engineering departments to fulfill your coursework, then your work may be tougher, as you are competing with different majors in their own area of expertise, areas which you may have had less exposure to than your classmates. Lower division courses are usually not limited to specific majors and tend to serve as good weeders.</p>
<p>How much free time does the average bioengineering student have?</p>
<p>That depends on what else you do. Do you have other activities? research? girlfriend? The major, like any engineering major, has plenty of requirements. In fact, the fools who designed the curriculum decided to assign 18 units a semester to freshman. This doesn't mean it's impossible to do.</p>
<p>Are the professors good or are most classes taught by TAs? </p>
<p>Within the department, most professors are good, but some are not so good. Lecturer (Terry Johnson) is even better. Upper division is all taught by professors/lecturer. There's not much to take in lower division. The ginormous classes you take as a freshman are lectured to by a professor.</p>
<p>Is it true that I will be taking almost the same classes as all the other engineering students my first year?</p>
<p>Yes. It also depends on how much you waive with AP. If you can get out of Math 1A/1B, do so. I hear the class is not nice to most people.</p>
<p>How difficult is bioengineering compared to eecs?</p>
<p>EECS is more difficult. At least gradewise, since the EECS department sets curves much lower (B-, i think). You also get less freedom to pick you classes with EECS, so you can't just go after the easy ones and fulfill core requirements in the integrated biology department as you can with BioE.</p>
<p>UCSD's top ranked program refers to its accredited normal track, not the premed or biotech tracks. They, like the other tracks Berkeley offers are potentially nonos for aspiring engineers. Berkeley is trying to get its main track accredited, I hear. But unlike civil engineering where you need a license to practice, accreditation is generally meaningless.</p>