<p>I was accepted into the College of Engineering at Berkeley in Civil Engineering and I am going to Berkeley and I want to pursue graduate school in Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering. My plan is to do a minor in Bioengineering and then I will have a sort of "double-major" without spending more than 4 years.</p>
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<li><p>Am I able to do this? With Civil Engineering? </p></li>
<li><p>What are your suggestions? I have been told to do Mechanical rather than Civil. If you agree, why?</p></li>
<li><p>What are the requirements to the a minor in bioengineering and when should I declare it, my sophomore year or right when I get there?</p></li>
<li><p>Is it really a lot harder to do a minor and a major in a four year period at Berkeley as I plan, to even in the same College, or is it not much difference between just a major?</p></li>
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<p>If you don’t mind me asking, why did you pick Civil Engineering as your major if you planned on going to graduate school in Bioengineering (I hope I didn’t ask this question in a mean way, I’m just curious) and to answer your questions:</p>
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<li>You can get a minor in any degree as long as your satisfy the requirements for that minor ([BioE</a> Minor](<a href=“http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/program/bioeminor.php]BioE”>http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/program/bioeminor.php))</li>
<li>If the mechanical major contains more overlap courses with the biomed minor, then it would be easier to attain the minor without having to take many extra courses.</li>
<li>Check the link.</li>
<li>If the minor has many courses in it that do not overlap with your major, then it means you may have to take more than 4 courses a semester to graduate in four years.</li>
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<p>Don’t worry Diivio, I understand but well it is a sort of complicated and long situation. Acutally I am also wondering if I can do graduate school on a minor?? Any inconviniences?</p>
<p>I really am okay if I take maybe one semester more, but Berkeley establishes as a requirement that a minor cannot prolong you undergraduate career. So I guess towars my junior and senior years I am gonna have to work my ass off?</p>
<p>well I think you can go to graduate school on a minor if you fulfill the min requirements that college has to go to graduate school in that major. I saw on the Berkeley website a bio engineer going to Stanford for a Phd in EE and I didn’t know that was possible.</p>