<p>I already mentioned in the MIT thread that you should go to the admitted students weekends at both schools and then decide based on academic and cultural fit. </p>
<p>However, be aware that Biomedical engineering at Duke is probably very different from bioengineering at MIT. </p>
<p>Biomedical is usually one of the engineering disciplines applied to solving medical problems and in particular many students think of it as creating robotic arms or other medical devices. </p>
<p>Bioengineering at MIT is mostly about genetic manipulation and isn’t specifically related to medicine. Bio engineers can be creating biofuels/cosmetics/pharmaceuticals or manipulating the genome for various other reasons.</p>
<p>Here’s a better explanation from the MIT website: [MIT</a> Biological Engineering & Biomedical Engineering Society](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/bmes/www/academics.html]MIT”>http://web.mit.edu/bmes/www/academics.html)</p>