Cornell VS. Northwestern for BME and Engineering in General

Alexandre
Tue, 01 May 2018 05:57:55 +0000

Cornell is not more prestigious than Northwestern, and that’s coming from a Cornell alumnus. To any educated person, those two universities are equally prestigious.

For BME, I would go with Northwestern. Their department is better than Cornell’s, and then you have many huge biotech firms in and around Chicago, including Baxter (Chicago area), Stryker (Kalamazoo, Michigan) and Medtronic (Minneapolis).

But why focus so narrowly on BME? Why not major in Electrical or Mechanical, and specialize in graduate school? In such a case, I would recommend Cornell for EE and both roughly the same for ME.