<p>I read the 2008 or 2009 US News/ World Report rankings for Biomedical Engineering. Yale University is not on there at all. However, I have been told that Yale has an excellent Biomedical Engineering Department. I understand that Yale has a fairly new undergrad Biomedical Engineering Dept. and that this may be affecting the rankings. Has anyone had any experience with Yale BME?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m not a Yale student, and I don’t know much about the program, but I will say that Yale has generally been working extremely hard about changing it’s image as a place for the humanities to a place of science and engineering as well. It has never been “weak” in the sciences or engineering, but it doesn’t have that reputation.
As a side note, I suggest investigating Duke, they have an incredible Biomed Engineering program.</p>
<p>Or MIT, they are supposed to have a surperb BME program. What is the salary of a BME anyways?</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins has one of the best BME programs in the world (you actually have to apply specially to the program when you apply to JHU). That said, even though I am a possible BME major, I ended up choosing Yale over JHU. Yale will give you a fine biomedical engineering education, but with more room to explore other random courses. Do keep in mind that the program here is obviously smaller than at a place like MIT or JHU or Duke; that can be a good thing, but you should also look into what the professors here are researching to see if any of it interests you. I would guess that there is a wider variety of BME research at schools with larger programs.</p>
<p>Just to follow up, and of course this would all only matter if I get accepted, could anyone please tell me how the biomolecular engineering research area is in Yale’s chemical engineering department? And maybe tie that back to its biomedical engineering department?</p>
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