<p>At this point, I've gotten to down to deciding between Northwestern and Johns Hopkins for my undergrad experience.
I plan on majoring in Biomedical Engineering and would love to hear what you guys have to say are the pros/cons of each program.</p>
<p>At this point, Johns Hopkins is slightly cheaper than Northwestern, but not significantly. I WOULD have more loans after graduating from Northwestern.</p>
<p>I'm from Minnesota, so Northwestern does have the edge on distance from home since it's a bus ride vs. a plane ride away.
Academically, I am still using my resources to figure everything out, which is why I'm here!</p>
<p>Discuss away :)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Since you’re visiting, i’m sure the picture will become clear soon. Make sure to ask questions during your visits. Loans do suck though, and I would factor that in considering the schools are comparable academically.</p>
<p>I grew up about 10 minutes away from NU and spent a lot of time in high school hanging out with friends there. The two are very similar in terms of prestige although JHU has the edge on the east coast, and NU has the edge in the midwest. Their academic specialties do differ: JHU is very well known for its biomedical engineering/life sciences, international relations, and creative writing. NU is more business, journalism, and theater. the NU campus is in a very cute suburb, the JHU campus is gorgeous but in a city. NU’s undergrad population is about twice the size as JHU’s. From talking to my friends, they had more big classes (and bigger ones) at NU than I ever had at JHU. NU has more distribution requirements out of your major, JHU has very few. The social scene for each is very similar–if you want to party, you definitely will. I am biased and think JHU has the edge because of the compactness of the campus and students living off campus (if you walk around you will pass lots of house parties, as all upperclassmen live around campus) as well as the fact that you are in a city with lots of bars and clubs to go to.</p>
<p>Did you get in to the BME program at JH? If so, then Hopkins would be the obvious choice as it is the best in the entire world. If you didn’t get into the BME program there or did not apply that is a different story. Hopkins still has several BME-related majors. There is biomolecular engineering as well as biomechanical engineering.</p>
<p>I did get into BME, and AM leaning toward Johns Hopkins but don’t want to make a hasty decision. I thought I might be biased just based on my own interpretations of everything and that I might be missing. Essentially, MasterMargarita hit a lot of the points that I was curious about from a student’s standpoint.</p>
<p>I’d love to hear more opinions, keep 'em coming! :D</p>
<p>if you got into Hopkins BME then that’s pretty hard to turn down…</p>