Hi,
i have been wondering about the highest regarded biomedical engineering schools. I really want to go to all of the schools listed below except finances are a problem. I live in California so I’m thinking UC Berkeley just because it is cheaper. But anyways, if any of you could rank the following from highly regarded to the least regarded. Thank you!!!
UC Berkeley
Stanford
Georgia Tech
MIT
UCSD
Duke & Johns Hopkins should be on your list for BME
Case Western Reserve University
Boston University
A career in Biomedical Engineering typically requires a graduate degree. In fact, a career in this field doesn’t even require an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering.
FYI, google the words: “biomedical engineering degree useless”
Northwestern (besides the ones already mentioned).
From your group, maybe Georgia Tech. Rose-Hulman and RPI would also be very strong.
RPI also has a pretty good biomedical engr program
Does your definition of “a pretty good biomedical engr program” include graduates actually getting a job in this field?
GMTplus7 is right in that an undergraduate degree in BME puts you in a relatively poor position when it comes to seeking employment in the biomedical industry. The reasoning is twofold:
- BME is a relatively small field requiring specialized engineers
- Undergrad BME programs are too broad to provide the specialization that employers want.
Basically every job that an undergraduate BME could potentially fill can be better filled by an undergrad of a different disciplines.
So the general advise is pursue a more general engineering discipline for undergrad then work in the BME industry / specialize in BME for grad school.
Now that that’s out of the way here’s the USNews list of top BME and BioE programs. They’re all good engineering schools where (as far as I know) you can specialize in BME even if you’re not a BME major.
(I’m a BME & CS double major at Hopkins)
BME is a good major if you don’t plan on going into BME lol. Most BMEs I know understand that they’re most likely going to academia, grad school, or some sort of industry (management/tech consulting, finance) but still choose the major because it truly interests them. It’s by no means a useless major but bioengineering as a field is very small.
^lol j actually forgot to link that list.
That actually true. Out of all of the people I know who graduated with a BS in BME most went into grad school or med school. Out of those who went into industry, most went into consulting (the breadth of BME which hurts us when applying to engineering jobs can be an advantage in consulting). Very few actually went to work in BME.
@GMTplus7 most of the BMEs I know end up going to graduate school, but I do know some undergrads went on to work for companies like Regeneron.