<p>How do these school compare in Bio Engineering (undergrad)?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>you're kidding, right?</p>
<p>i don't know anything about cornell bioengineering, but it's a great dept. at ucsd. if this is your intended major i would only go to cornell if you liked the atmosphere there a lot better, and/or because it will somehow turn out to be a lot cheaper if you go there (which i kind of doubt). maybe try the cornell board if you haven't already done so?</p>
<p>US News 2008 Ranking (cornell isn't even on the top 23):</p>
<p>Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Biomedical / Biomedical Engineering
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
Methodology 1. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
2. Duke University (NC)
3. Univ. of California–San Diego *
4. Georgia Institute of Technology *
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
6. University of Pennsylvania
7. Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH)
8. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
9. Boston University
10. University of Washington *
11. Rice University (TX)
12. Northwestern University (IL)
University of California–Berkeley *
14. Stanford University (CA)
15. Vanderbilt University (TN)
16. Washington University in St. Louis
17. Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
University of Virginia *
19. U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
University of Texas–Austin *
21. University of California–Davis *
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
23. Tulane University (LA)
* denotes a public school.</p>
<p>Isn't there a difference between Biomedical engineering and plain Bioengineering? The ranking is for Biomedical while I'm looking at regular Bioengineering</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure there's no difference. If there is, it isn't large enough to make a difference in the rankings.</p>
<p>Those rankings apply to all bioengineering programs and their branches (i.e. biomedical, biosystems, biomechanical, etc.). They are all essentially the same, but some have slightly narrower focuses than others.</p>
<p>Don't trust the rankings at face value. UCSD has inflated rankings becase of its massive research spending, which doesn't impact the quality of your learning. Also, Cornell arguably has a smarter student body, which may affect the quality of your college experience.</p>
<p>Yes, but increased research spending allows UCSD to attract better bioengineering faculty. Of course one could argue that these faculty members are only concerned with research and not with teaching, but the point is that UCSD is able to get the best of the best in the bioengineering field. And keep in mind: bioengineering was BORN at UCSD (massive bonus points there hahah)</p>