They don’t have biomedical engineering. It’s biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics which might also be interesting to the OP but is a different type of program.
Within this major at UCSC,
- the biomolecular engineering concentration is “designed for students interested in protein engineering, stem cell engineering, and synthetic biology. The emphasis is on designing biomolecules (DNA, RNA, proteins) and cells for particular functions, and the underlying sciences are biochemistry and cell biology.”
- the bioinformatics concentration “combines mathematics, science, and engineering to explore and understand biological data from high-throughput experiments, such as genome sequencing, gene-expression chips, and proteomics experiments.”
Sorry to be picky, but since my daughter is applying for bioengineering / biomedical engineering, I’m more sensitized to these distinctions than I was previously!
For the OP who is thinking about various biology / biotech / bioengineering majors:
My daughter and I found it useful to look at this PDF presentation from UCSD, which talks about the history of biomedical engineering departments, the four majors in the UCSD Bioengineering department, and lots and lots of different research areas and where they might fit into different majors and departments:
- **[Bioengineering: The Four Majors at UCSD]
https://be.ucsd.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/BENG%20UG%20Major%20Overview.pdf