<p>Just wondering what college you guys would recommend if i were deciding between ucla and ucsd for bioengineering. </p>
<p>also ucla rank is 40 and i believe and ucsd is 2 so another question i have is whether or not the prestige of ucla is going to help better with grad school and/or jobs vs the ranking of ucsd.</p>
<p>I think that those rankings have to do with their grad program and not so much for their undergrad.</p>
<p>^yeah, no one ever ranks undergrad programs. </p>
<p>according to OC Register, UCI biomedical engineering is 37.</p>
<p>according to UCI, biomedical engineering is 40.</p>
<p>A few points:</p>
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<li> Bioengineering is mostly a useless engineering major. Most employers hire MechE, ChemE, and EE over BioE. Why? It's because most BioE programs don't focus heavily on the engineering aspect. When it's all said and done, it's easier to teach MechE, ChemE, and EE biology than to teach BioE graduates the engineering aspect required for most jobs.</li>
<li> With that said, you really need an advanced degree in BioE to have good job prospects in the industry.</li>
<li> UCSD BioE is better than UCLA BioE.</li>
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<p>good point tastybeef.</p>
<p>im halfway done with bioE, but decided to change to chemE( even though it'll take me 5 years) because being a BioE major is like being a jack of all trades. its so broad that they dont/cant really focus on specific topics so they introduce you to EE, mechE, chemE so you know a LITTLE bit of everything.</p>
<p>im not even sure a phd in bioE do you that much good when you are competing with chem phd people.</p>
<p>ok so first off im seeing that ranking is somewhat unimportant but the ranking of grad school usually correlates to undergrad no?</p>
<p>on the other point about bioeng isnt it like the up and coming engineering for the next decade? can bioeng with phd work out? i was thinking doing tissue regeneration in grad school and go into research. so those researchers need to be bioeng no?</p>
<p>ucsd's ranked #2 out of all colleges that offer at least a MD or PHD, but I think it applies to their undergrad curriculum too</p>
<p>anyone want to give a definitive answer as to where to go cuz i want to go to ucla for partying but if i get into ucsd their bioeng is so highly known i would think that picking ucla over ucsd would b a mistake in the future no?</p>
<p>just wondering, but where did OP ultimately decide to go? i’m also choosing btwn UCLA and UCSD for bioengineering :P</p>
<p>@ritzduck</p>
<p>Same major =] Before even applying to any of the main UC’s I was looking into (UCB, UCLA, UCD, UCSD, UCI) I decided to visit as many campuses as possible. I hit LA and San Diego in the same trip. I got a feel for the campuses and checked out the classroom and lab facilities. </p>
<p>I was much, much more impressed by San Diego’s bioengineering facilities, my god, they even had a multi-level building devoted to the field. I really liked the feel of the campus too, felt clean.</p>
<p>Maybe my opinions of UCLA were slightly skewed because I visited it after I was blown away by UCSD, but I will still share. First, I didn’t like the location of the engineering classrooms, they were practically on city streets and quite a bit away from the beautiful main campus so that was my first turnoff. Second, finding the specific bioengineering sections was quite difficult and I never found the epicenter, seemed scattered through a few buildings.</p>
<p>I decided to not even apply to UCLA, because I couldn’t see myself there, just felt wrong for me. If you can, I truly recommend visiting the campuses before making a decision. It completely changed my mind and no amount of internet research could’ve done that.</p>
<p>Do BioE if you want to gimp yourself out of job prospects while doing the same amount of work.</p>
<p>Is UCLA’s program even accredited?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it’s not as of yet. I would SINCERELY recommend going to UCSD. For bioengineering there, you would just be going for the name of the school and UCSD’s program is amazing. The school also has a ton of opportunities for you. The only problem I encountered with UCSD is that you need to take BENG 100 that is traditionally only offered in the Spring (which is supposed to be taken your sophomore year). For transfers, this basically sucks because it is the pre-req to a ton of upper division classes and because of the quarters they offer them, I realized I would have to stay there for 3 years and have no classes to take for 2 of the semesters. I haven’t spoken to anyone about how to get by this but you can refer to the course catalog and see for yourself. Though, if that’s not a problem to you, you should REALLY opt for an ABET accredited program. And ignore the people who tell you to go into a different Eng major - if you were interested in those, you obviously would have.</p>
<p>well first of all this thread is from a few years ago.</p>
<p>Second of all-
No, don’t ignore those people. Those people have real-world experience. You major in Bio-E, you will probably spend a lot more time looking for a job and have to settle. That defeats entirely one of the main draws of going into engineering, relatively solid job placement.</p>
<p>Bioengineering is so broad that it can for all intents and purposes be considered ineffective and when all is said in done you still need a solid foundation in ME or Chem E to do anything in the field. Companies simply don’t want BioE majors. </p>
<p>And if, L. Ron Hubbard help you, you are considering doing premed, you better be damn sure you love bioengineering because it very well might murder your GPA.</p>