<p>What major is best for tissue and genetic engineering? I am so confused about what is the ideal major. </p>
<p>Every forum I visit tells me all of these majors are useless. I've heard jobs for biology majors are very scarce, and you can do nothing with the degree. I've heard Bioengineering is also useless because it is too broad and will also get me nowhere. If all these majors are useless, what's the best option?</p>
<p>Long story short, what major (that is also employable) should I choose?</p>
<p>As far as I know bioengineering is not really useless… the fact it is broad should be the reason why it is not useless. of course you do not necessarily have to get a degree in bioengineering to become a so called, “bioengineer”, since similar can be done by biomedical/chemical/other varieties of engineers. </p>
<p>Biomedical engineering is what tissue engineering is, I think. Or making prosthetic and other tools for such purposes.</p>
<p>Easily chemical engineering. Just in case the bottom falls out of your biosciences career, which inevitably it will, at least you can fall back on a chemical engineering degree. BME is not all it is cracked up to be.</p>
<p>BME is not useful with an undergraduate degree, compared to other engineering majors. If you want to go on to graduate school, by all means major in bioengineering.
Actually, for tissue/genetic engineering, your options in the field are going to be limited no matter what you major in, unless you go to grad school.</p>
<p>These are extremely interdisciplinary fields. Don’t think because the word engineering appears in them that you need to major in engineering. Most genetic engineers I know are structural biologists and biochemists…they also work with many industrial and process engineers, chemical engineers and biomedical engineers as well as medical doctors. Tissue engineering I cannot say the same because I have not experienced it (I work in metabolic engineering). </p>
<p>But…the people I described study strictly mechanistic aspects, uncovering more and more evidence, not so much working for a company to develop products as to publish significant research that will later be developed by a company to make products. Your focus may bias more towards the latter stages of development where more implementation principles learned in engineering majors come into play.</p>