Some 30+ years ago, probably you can get an employment with AA degree but today it’s more common to go for a grad school or professional school, so I am wondering if it’s worth spending some 300K for CMU undergrad when a student can get a decent education from CCS ?
Public vs Private :Are private schools worth the cost ?
I coordinate the biology program in CCS and would be happy to answer your questions. There are some quite complex issues here that I encourage you to discuss. My name is John Latto and you can find my contact info on the CCS webpage.
@ccsfaculty, thanks for responding.
CCS been top of our list so far. The only difference I see between a private and public university is the private schools are more flexible if the student want to change the major. My general understanding with CCS is that student might be moved to L&S if they decided to change major in case double major option is not available. Is it true ? Currently, my daughter isn’t trying to change any majors, but I will like to know what are the options available.
Also, I read in UCSB pages that bioE is a pilot program, but I didn’t see anyone graduating with a bioE degree in the past couple of CCS commencement on you tube. Is the following program not offered anymore ? I tried to contact the professors whose names are listed and didn’t get any response so far, so I am wondering if there is no interest in continuing the program ?
I will request my D to contact you too. Anyway, it will be great if you can answer it here for the benefit of other parents who might have similar questions. Thank you in advance.
It can be difficult to access Engineering courses at UCSB, particularly intro classes, unless you are in the College of Engineering. I suspect this will be true of many universities. My recommendation for anyone seriously interested in bioengineering would be to look at which programs can guarantee you access to the classes you will need. It will generally be easier to enter an engineering program and pick up biology classes than it is to enter a biology program and pick up engineering classes.