I still can’t fathom you are willing to pay extra for Georgia tech. I would pay to not go to Georgia tech. Personally I turned down Berkeley and Cornell for Hopkins and recently graduated from MIT as a mech e master’s student with full funding.
Johns Hopkins Chemical Engineering or Electrical Engineering vs. Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Tech is the #1 biomedical undergrad program in the country – https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-biological-biomedical It also has a tremendously better campus than Hopkins and I believe (this part is subjective) the daily student life is better.
Tremendously better campus? Lol - right. It has a terrible yield for a leading public school for a reason. This despite having SAT scores over 100+ points lower on a math plus verbal scale (this despite being a pure stem school)
You would think a quality school with poor yield would at least have comparable test scores relative to one with humanities
The more I am learning about the options, that is being able to actually do a 5 year masters in BME, and the strong grad school placement, I am certainly leaning more strongly to JHU, its the cost effective option and was my initial top choice.
@stevensPR What was Mech E at Hopkins actually like? I know all across the board, irrespective of major research is great at Hopkins, but what about the internship opportunities?
@Jsteez lol…I misread. I see now it’s a one year grad program for premeds doing a gap year.
Internship opportunities are great - everyone in engineering does one in sophomore or junior year. I had my pick of companies from Lockheed to Northrop to JHU’s Applied Physics Lab to Tesla even on the west coast amongst other options. Companies come on campus to do the recruiting.
and Mech E was chill - a lot of varsity athletes (especially football and baseball) and normal kids mixed.
Also a bunch do biomedical device related internships as you can read about here:
@stevensPR Is it true the grading for the engineering is very difficult? I have heard rumors it is extremely difficult to keep a good GPA in engineering at Hopkins.
Also, do you know if any of the average/median starting salary information is available for Hopkins? I looked and couldn’t find anything.
Average engineering gpa was a 3.27 (this is not graduating GPA) as of 2011. Grading is hardly different between the departments but people just say engineering is harder since engineering students tend to take more credits with the majority of those being STEM courses.
Don’t know too much about average salary for the majors though. I don’t think they really publish this since the majority go on to grad school/med school postponing high salaries.
the median engineering GPA at Hopkins when I graduated in 2014 was a 3.35 - so I don’t think engineering grading is that tough. Average salary is tough to determine since it depends where you go (higher cost of living areas such as SF or NYC pays higher). Amongst my classmates and my personal experience, average salaries were in the mid 60s to low 70s for entry level engineering jobs in mech e.
My daughter is ChemBE at Hopkins (she chose over GT, but not their BME, and several others) and is extremely happy! She had several research position offers and is very happy with the one that she chose and began during second semester. Classes are difficult and, from what I hear, grades are not inflated as they are rumored to be elsewhere, but I think (and hope) grad schools/employers take the major and school into account when looking at those gpa’s. Good luck with your choice.