Knowstuff May I ask which college did he do his BS/MS from ?
University of Michigan.
Iām going to throw out another consideration. BME at my Dās school is a capped, extremely small major. (We heard the same at other schools as well.). The competition to get into that major was worse than CS last year. Many students that had above the GPA cut off didnāt make it into the program and are now doing related majors with a concentration in BME. That should be on your radar when making up the college list.
For a PDF of 2018 WPI graduates in BS, MS and PhD majors go to https://www.wpi.edu/student-experience/career-development/outcomes and take a look at page 13. The knowledge rate for these BS graduates is 95.3%. I do know of one student who just graduated with a BS in BME and is currently in the PhD program at Johns Hopkins.
All comments are very helpful! I see a general consensus that doing post graduation is important in BME . But opinions/experience in getting jobs in industry still seem to be split.I heard from one college admission officer that doing double major with BME is very hard. I thought it might be useful to double major BME with business school majors or CS major . Does anyone have any experience with that? what about minors? Are minors even useful in the real world when recruiters come to campuses?
@pearl0607 Sorry for late reply! It is cold and snowy in Maineā¦ distracted by wood harvesting. It is ākind ofā fun, but one has to keep moving! One needs to read Robert Frost to view a more personal perspective of the āOld New Englandā before one throws in the towel and retires to Florida AZ of CA.
At the WPI web address given above, the double majors of the BME graduates that year are also listed. In 2018, they were:
International & Global Studies
Mechanical Engineering
Professional Writing
Robotics
See Robotics crossover example @ https://www.wpi.edu/academics/departments/biomedical-engineering
BME majors are not restricted to this list. The closest engineering crossovers are ME and Robotics. Professional Writing and International & Global Studies would be expansions of the required IQP and Humanities parts of your degree requirements. If you can get into WPI and are really interested, you can do it!
It really depends on you and your passion!
Look up @HPuck35ās great posts on why not to double or minor in business.
As for CS, unless you can see yourself pounding out code all day, every day, just take the CS classes BME requires. If you can see yourself doing this, why not just major in CS or SE? Youāll have better job prospects with a BS only.
In general you are better getting a deeper education in major area that interests you rather than diluting that with a minor or double.
Good luck!
Another viewpoint: https://www.medicaldevicesgroup.net/medical-devices/biomedical-engineering/