<p>So my school doesn't offer a very strong BME program. That being said, I'm deciding between EE and ME. EE, at my school, is marginally less intensive...even though it's just two less classes, that can be a pretty big difference in my schedule as I'm interested in a lot of other things too (I wanna do some art/film stuff too...not sure about major, maybe minor but I just have a huge interest in it). So I'm really interested in going into drug/tissue production. Which of the two is better? I've read on here that BME isn't the best choice as its too specialized...well, which one applies more?</p>
<p>I would think Chem E would be better as far as the engineering majors are concerned. but from the pharmacists I’ve talked to said that you dont really need to have that sort of science degree, just to have the courses you need for those particular schools (ie…chem, bio, biochem, econ, math, etc…) and you can do whatever major you want. </p>
<p>Idk if its all true, just what I have been told</p>
<p>You don’t want to work in pharmaceuticals. Drugs created by the African children killing monopolies are going off patent: good for consumers, bad bad bad news for Big Pharm fatcats and the parasites they keep alive. No important new drugs are in the pipeline and development cycles are 10 years, so for the forseeable future Big Pharm is going to be downsizing. Add in the fact that small-medium pharm companies in the US don’t even do chemical reactions, just mix (imported) precursors in (imported) reactors then doing QC on (imported) instruments, you want to stay the hell away from pharmaceuticals. Now if you want to become a pharmacist, then don’t do engineering, because engineering lowers your GPA and trains you to think while pharmacists need a high GPA and minimum thinking. Do something like bio or English, get a 4.0 GPA with minimum thinking, and apply for Pharm school.</p>
<p>African children are killing monopolies?</p>
<p>EE does biology stuff, but it mostly has to do with imaging technologies and other instrumentation for biology applications. Biology itself isn’t the main focus. My opinion is that EE is a poor choice if you want to study drug or tissue production.</p>
<p>Chemical engineering or biomedical engineering.</p>