<p>The BME experience at Hopkins is often imitated, but never replicated or duplicated at any other school.
If cost is an issue, then go with UC Berkeley, which I assume will be cheaper for you.
If it’s not, it’s hard to turn down an offer for JHU BME. I question anyone who tells you BME is oversubscribed. What exactly makes any of the OTHER engineering paths less subscribed? Aren’t schools like MIT, Caltech, Berkeley, Cornell, etc churning out Mech Es, EEs, Chem Es, etc by the hundreds if not thousands? And in either case, more and more engineers in those fields are coming from places like China and India. One of the few engineering areas that the US still has a noticeable numerical and qualitative advantage over all others is in Biomedical Engineering, and for that program, JHU is, and has been for all the years it has ever had such a program, the #1 program in the country.</p>
<p>I can talk more in depth about the program, but only if necessary. I am curious, however, as to how the BME program at UCB would surpass that of Hopkins and why.</p>
<p>AND UCBChemEGrad is DEAD WRONG about another assessment: EACH year, only ~100 out of the 1200-1300 students in each undergraduate year is ALLOWED to major in BME. The program is kept small and intimate for good reasons ;)</p>
<p>though I’m sure at a school like UCB, 1000 people would be considered intimate :p</p>
<p>also: at Hopkins, all undergraduates in BME are assigned special advisors that they meet with frequently and whom know them by name and face within the first two weeks. There are also small projects that are coordinated with faculty and professors (3-4 students to one faculty member) that are later presented to the rest of the BME department.</p>