What’s a good minor if I’m majoring in biomedical engineering?

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I was thinking neuroscience, business administration, or finance. Which one will be more helpful in the future? Do minors even matter when getting a job?

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Try looking for other threads on these topics. Often the advise here is to not add constraints by doing a minor. Also make sure that biomed is really the major you want. You can work in biomed field with other more general engineering degrees

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https://bme.umich.edu/academics/undergraduate/concentrations/

Look through these BME concentrations. You will need a deeper core in another engineering field to be successful with an undergraduate degree. Whether or not you declare a minor, pick a concentration and then add coursework in ME, EE, Chem Eng or CS applicable to the concentration.

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  1. Do you need a minor? Will having an official minor help you getting a job?
  2. Will taking some classes in an area help you? So let us say a minor is 15 credits, but you can fit in 12 credits in business. That will be helpful, but not a minor.
  3. If you are biomedical with mechanical emphasis, for example, it might be better to take more mechE courses.
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I am biomedical with emphasis on EE. The way school is set up for me right now, I have room for a minor before I’m able to graduate, so I wanted to take that opportunity to take classes on something other than engineering. I narrowed it down to a couple of options and was wondering which, if any, was a good choice.

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Taking classes on something “other than engineering” means being a less educated (and thus less useful) engineer. You may find it interesting, but employers would prefer deeper engineering coursework. That is especially true of business classes. It will be a strong signal that you aren’t actually interested in doing technical work. It’s hard enough getting a job with a BME BS. Doing anything you can to deepen your engineering knowledge and experience should override any notion of an unrelated minor.

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You should also ask for advise on campus. There may be some electives that help make you more appealing to the firms that typically interview there.

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My daughter just graduated with a BS in BME. She just started a tippy top PhD program. She loves research. She minored in biology, materials science, and music. She is finding the biology (a lot of physiology in her case) and materials science a big help in the research that she is already doing and the class that she is taking. Music was just to feed her soul.