<p>Hey yall,
Well Im in a bit of an internal conflict. I've been accepted into both UofR and Case Western for BME. I know Case BME has an amazing reputation (usually top 10 every year) but I just came back from a Rochester Visit and I absolutly loved it. Does Rochesters BME program also have high prestige. Goergen hall for BME looked state-of-the-art from outside but I just haven't heard so much about the greatness and prestige of Hajims program.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your help!</p>
<p>Just follow your heart. You’re choosing undergrad school! You have to disregard ranking or reputation of major, which usually comes from graduate school.</p>
<p>I can point you to the ASEE profile - that’s at asee.org under publications, college profiles. ASEE is the American Society for Engineering Education. They collect data about engineering programs. </p>
<p>If you look up the two schools, you don’t see a real but not massive difference. Case Western gets about $12M in biomed research dollars while UR gets about $6M. By contrast, a really large program might get $25-30M. Just by looking at dollars, you’d say CW has a bigger program but that UR has a substantial program as well. </p>
<p>That suggests to me you should follow your heart; there isn’t that big a difference in funding to drive you to one. Not that funding is the be all and end all. It’s rather that all things being equal, funding for research tells you how many resources exist at the school, how much faculty attention, how many research opportunities you have, etc. It seems both have these.</p>
<p>Remember that you, personally, are likely to do better where you’re happier.</p>
<p>BME is a really popular major at UR. Since UR has a top program in Optics, they are doing a lot of cutting edge work there
if you are interested in research
[BME</a> Senior Design - Biomedical Engineering | University of Rochester](<a href=“Department of Biomedical Engineering : University of Rochester”>Department of Biomedical Engineering : University of Rochester)</p>