<p>HOSPITALS =/= Biomedical engineering.
Trust me, you don’t know what you are talking about Byerly. Having affiliated hospitals does not equate into having good biomedical engineering as the latter is often a product more from an engineering program. Hospital research can vary, no doubt, but the bulk is clinical and basic science research. When it comes to BME, JHU, Duke, and tech schools are unmatched (Stanford too). Its just a function of having “tech support” as your original link which cited Harvard’s need for MIT in order to garner some sort of respectable program.</p>
<p>For more info on Yale’s program, which by the way, splintered off of engineering in 2003 (I think it was a concentration within engineering) so its relatively young, see the website <a href=“http://www.eng.yale.edu/content/DPBiomedicalEngineering.asp[/url]”>http://www.eng.yale.edu/content/DPBiomedicalEngineering.asp</a>
It appears the program is split into three directions, biomechanical, bioimaging and biomolecular.</p>