Campus Visit this Sunday

pbleigh
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 20:01:38 +0000

@kcheves Since your daughter is interested in Biomedical Engineering, as is my son who is currently a freshman at A&M, and also was accepted into UT Austin, Baylor and A&M, I can give you my son’s perspective on the same decision. Baylor does not have a BS degree in Biomedical Engineering; they do have a master’s however. My son felt that their engineering program was not as good as either UT or A&M. He said just reading the credentials of the teachers you can get a good feel, but in addition there were just more opportunities for research, etc at the other two schools. He wants to do biomechanics within Biomedical Engineering so his plan for Baylor would have been mechanical engineering BS with a MS in biomedical, if he had chosen to go there. UT has a great program but for him Biomedical Engineering at UT Austin is strictly from the chemical side. Biomechanics research at UT Austin is done in the mechanical engineering department, so that is where he would have majored had he chosen UT Austin. What he did not like about UT Austin was that he felt like he was in a city the whole time he walked around the campus; he said you could not tell where the campus ended and the city began or vs. versa. The kids were not as friendly there, and being more reserved and introverted, that did not appeal to him. The dorms at UT Austin were very old and not updated (he said they were kind of gross), most kids live off campus in apartments or private dorms which he said were not as nice as A&M’s new White Creek Apartments and Hullabuloo. With A&M they had a specific biomechanics track within the major which appealed to him and he was also interested in a new track they added this year which was biomolecular and cellular. He decided to pursue the engineering honors program at A&M which will allow him to fast track a masters degree. He came in with so many AP credits that transferred at A&M he is already technically a sophomore and after this semester a junior. The way that has worked out for him is that he can finish his BS degree earlier then 4 years while also starting his MS degree so that he can finish both degrees within 5 years, and that was a big positive for him. That’s about all I can remember at the moment, if you have any specific questions I can pass them along to him for you.