Biomedical or chemical engineering major

Socal95
Sun, 27 Jan 2013 04:05:48 +0000

I’m a junior in high school, and am pretty set on studying either chemical or biomedical engineering in college. For a while I always assumed I’d major in biomedical engineering g because that is specifically the field I want to go into, and is also very fastly growing in terms of job availability. However it seems like chemical engineering has a more wide variety of possible jobs, including jobs in biotech/biomedical research, and get better pay on average. I’m also fascinated with nanotechnology, so chemical engineering seems like a good fit for me. What do you think is the wiser major for jobs in the future, especially in California. And what are some schools that offer good programs for both? What about possibly double majoring in the two?

Schools I’m interested in: USC, UC Berkeley, Michigan, Cal Poly SLO, Columbia, UPenn, University of Washington (Seattle) and ideally MIT