<p>Please help me to make decision on choosing which one to attend. Some factors are:
- Med school accept rate
- School life
- Competation
- Other engineering majors, like CS or EE</p>
<p>definately jhu for bme.</p>
<p>I don't think many schools offer competation</p>
<p>Both have great BME programs but just to balance out the clout since this is the JHU disscussion board, UPenn also has the prestige of being an Ivy League school plus Philadelphia ranks third in the nation for its number of health professions and educates one out of every six doctors in the nation. Also 80 percent of the worlds major biotechnology firms located in a two hour radius of the University. So Penn has some great assests both inside and out of school. If you want to know more about Penn and Philly, the website <a href="http://www.onebigcampus.com%5B/url%5D">www.onebigcampus.com</a> has some pamphlets with great info! :)</p>
<p>Keep in mind... UPenn doesn't have a Biomedical Engineering major, they only have Bioengineering.</p>
<p>Philly does indeed have a large medical infleunce on our nation. However, I feel that Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School are just as, if not more, influencial on medicine in the United States. </p>
<p>Cali_girl's comment on 80% of biotechnology firms being within a two hour radius also applies to Hopkins, since Baltimore and Philadelphia are only one hour apart in driving distance.</p>
<p>If you want to do BME, Johns Hopkins is the place to be.</p>
<p>Pre-med, JHU 96% to medical school
Upenn 80% to medical school, double nat. ave. After we heard Upenn boasting their numbers, then we realize JHU's pre-med is really good.</p>
<p>but i heard for hopkins, the reason that 96% go to med school is because only the best students get recs.. i dont know how true that is</p>
<p>You also have to remember that you CAN get involved in the biomedical/biotechnical industry without studying BME. Studying EE, MSE, MechE, ChemE, CS are all gateways to nearly any industry (including BME). So even though UP may not have a BME degree doesn't mean you should discredit it as any lower than Hopkins. Studying another major and concentrating in bio will probably leave you with more options in the end than just studying BME at any school, this was the receiving for decling BME when I came to Hopkins.</p>
<p>I never discredited Penn. I was making note of the fact that it doesn't specifically have BME as a major.</p>