Best Engineering Major for a Premed

drusba
Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:41:22 +0000

Any of those engineering fields are fine. The real issue for someone pre-med, besides getting a high GPA which is more difficult in engineering than other majors, is meeting the pre-med requirements while also trying to complete the engineering requirements (large numbers of hours). The easiest way, scheduling-wise, is to do chemical or bio engineering because a number of your pre-med requirements, like organic chemistry, are also courses that can be taken as part of those majors. The result is that you can still meet the pre-med requirements and the major requirements in four years. With something like electrical engineering, which often requires no more than one course in basic chemistry, your pre-med requirements are electives you have to pick up when you find time while trying to meet the 16 to 17 credit hours per semester in other courses required for the EE major.