Stanford vs. Ga Tech vs. UCSD for BME

College Search & Selection
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<p>I am trying to decide between Stanford, Georgia Tech, and UC San Diego for Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering.</p>

<p>Stanford doesn't actually have biomedical engineering as an undergraduate major, but I could potentially BS/MS in it, and they have amazing research going on that I could potentially participate in. Does anyone know what the chances are for an undergraduate to get involved in such advanced research there? Also, I received a good financial aid package from them so it would only cost 5k a year more than GA Tech and is cheaper than UCSD.</p>

<p>Georgia Tech and UCSD are ranked 3rd and 4th nationally for BME, and both have great locations that I personally like better than Stanford's, although I haven't actually been on their campuses. I really like the sound of La Jolla's weather/beach. Also I was accepted into UCSD's "Biomedical Engineering:Pre-Medical" major, which I like because it helps leave that career path open for me.</p>

<p>Does anyone know if Stanford's "prestige" makes it more valuable for getting into graduate/medical school than the other two, even if UCSD and GA Tech have potentially better undergraduate programs? (and more accessible research opportunities)?</p>

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<p>My recommendation would be – Stanford, all the way. And I speak as an enthusiastic UCB grad, so it’s not like like I’m anti public schools or the UC system. </p>

<p>But I’ll be honest: few schools offer as much as Stanford in terms of a whole-package experience. Between the prestige, the lovely campus/weather, and the cutting-edge science done there, you simply can’t do much better than Stanford. I can’t speak about research opportunities per se – but in my experience a talented and outgoing undergrad can accomplish a great deal, especially at a customer-service-oriented private school like Stanford. The UC system, as you probably know, is grappling with a huge budget problem, and UCSD like the other campuses faces cuts. Odds are, at UC your classes will be bigger, the competition in bigger numbers. I’d imagine a similar situation could exist at Georgia Tech. Stanford being private and obsenely rich is somewhat insulated from similar economic woes. </p>

<p>In terms of grad school admission – I’m not sure Stanford will be “more valuable.” But it certainly won’t hurt!</p>

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<p>Georgia Tech is Top 2 in the USNEWS in bioenginering and overral top 4 and with this funding will be much better. So I can suggest “Don’t go with big names, go with the best” </p>

<p>Read the complete news at [Probing</a> Cell Clusters: Georgia Tech is a Partner in New $25M NSF Center that will Investigate the Creation of Biological Machines | Georgia Tech Research News](<a href=“http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/biological-machines/]Probing”>http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/biological-machines/)</p>

<p>Probing Cell Clusters: Georgia Tech is a Partner in New $25M NSF Center that will Investigate the Creation of Biological Machines</p>

<p>While the behaviors of individual cells and the functions and properties of tissues and organs have been extensively studied, the complex interactions of cell clusters have not been examined in great detail.</p>

<p>Robert Nerem, the Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine at Georgia Tech, will serve as an associate director of the new EBICS Center and will oversee the Center’s diversity objectives.</p>

<p>The new $25-million Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems (EBICS) Center to be operated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Georgia Institute of Technology intends to change that.</p>

<p>The EBICS Center — established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of its Science and Technology Centers Integrative Partnerships program — aims to advance research in complex biological systems, create new educational programs based on this research, and demonstrate leadership in its involvement of groups traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering.</p>

<p>“Ultimately, we envision being able to create biological modules — sensors, processors, actuators — that can be combined in various ways to produce different capabilities,” said Roger Kamm, Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, and the Center’s founding director. “If we are successful, this will open up an entirely new field of research with wide-ranging implications, from regenerative medicine to developmental biology.”</p>

<p>Georgia Tech will receive more than $1.6 million per year to support the research and educational efforts in the EBICS Center. Georgia Tech’s participation in the Center will be administered through the Georgia Tech/Emory Center (GTEC) for Regenerative Medicine. Robert Nerem, who is an associate director of EBICS and the director of GTEC, will work closely with Kamm and the other associate directors to achieve the Center’s educational and research goals, and oversee its diversity objectives.</p>

<p>Georgia Tech faculty will contribute to the development of the knowledge, tools and technologies necessary to create these highly sophisticated biological machines.</p>

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<p>Stanford Stanford Stanford. They don’t have BME, but they have a biomechanical engineering major. And they do have a BS/MS that a lot of engineering students end up doing. </p>

<p>Also, just because UCSD lists “Pre-medical” in your intended major and other schools did not does not mean that pre-med is closed to you at the other schools. Pre-med means taking the medical school prereqs, which any major can do. If you are thinking of both engineering and medical school, go to Stanford.</p>

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<p>Just noticed this thread is a year old. -_-</p>

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<p>you got own</p>

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<p>I love STANDFORD AND MY GIRLFRIEND</p>

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<p>Pre-med can be done with any major, not just biology or biomedical engineering.</p>

<p>Note that job and career prospects at the bachelor’s level for biomedical engineering are not so great compared to other types of engineering. (However, doing pre-med alongside engineering other than chemical or biomedical may be difficult in terms of squeezing all of the non-overlapping requirements for both in.)</p>