Hey guys, I’m majoring in Biochemistry and I plan to go to graduate school for either biomedical engineering or chemical engineering. I was wondering if I should take physics as a minor since my school doesn’t offer any engineering classes?
If you have the flexibility in your schedule to take the physics courses, it would be a good choice for a future engineering graduate degree. Remember, however, that you will still likely be required to make up some deficiency courses if you are admitted.
Check the web sites of PhD programs in biomedical and chemical engineering to see what undergraduate preparation they want to see for applicants to those programs.
I was wondering why you are majoring in biochemistry if you plan to go to graduate school for engineering.
If you know what you want, why are you doing something else? Why not major in chemical engineering and take extra biochemistry classes as your required chemistry electives.
Yes, I’ve never understood why somebody would want to go to graduate school engineering after majoring in something else. Most schools won’t even let you do that in a lot of disciplines, and even if they did, you’d be at such a disadvantage!
Some students change their mind too late to change major or transfer to a college that has their new desired major (if their current college does not have it).
Some students attend colleges that aggressively weed out students who want to do engineering with high GPA requirements or competitive admission to enter (or stay in) engineering majors.
Maybe you could see if your college is involved in a 3+2 program…you do 3 years at a liberal arts college and the last 2 at a Engineering school.