<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I was recently accepted into the Biomedical Engineering program at UT Austin a week ago, and I'm wondering how is the major?</p>
<p>Yes, I'm familiar that any engineering major at Cockrell is top knotch and etc, but how are the research opportunities, internships, and first year classes under this department?</p>
<p>I’d say it’s pretty good overall? I’m not a BME but I have quite a few of BME friends.
Most of them are involved in research—whether it’s related to BME or not, so I think you have pretty good research opportunities.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, internships might be difficult to get because your major is highly specialized towards—usually—medical industries. I have a friend who’s working at a prosthetics company, but other than her, I don’t know anyone who managed to get an internship at one of these “medical” companies.</p>
<p>I think many BME kids plan to go to med school too… that’s why they’re not too into getting internships. But, conventional engineering companies rarely hire BME. So this might be something to think about.</p>
<p>First year classes… Well, you’re going to take your usual physics and calculus classes with the other engineering majors. You’re going to take chemistry and biology with so many different majors. I think how good these classes are depends a lot on the professor. For example, for BIO 311C, I would take it with Prof. Buskirk if possible. I really enjoyed that class.</p>
<p>Here’s your degree plan btw:
<a href=“UT Cockrell School of Engineering”>UT Cockrell School of Engineering;
<p>Ditto on what rocketderp said. I was a BME major until I hit EE 319K; that class was killer and made me realized I did not want to be an engineering major!</p>
<p>Everything is top-notch for the BME program. Lots of research opportunities and good support from advisors. There is a little lack of companies hiring BME grads, but it shouldn’t be a problem.</p>