Duke vs. Harvard/Princeton (Complicated)

sakky
Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:03:05 +0000

Well it’s mostly because of my dad. I was planning on just majoring in biochem, but he convinced me that it would probably be in my best interests to do biomed engineering (i.e. he won’t pay for my college if I don’t) since I’ll have 3 options (rather than 1) at the end of college if I take the right electives- 1. Pure biomed engineering



The sad truth is that a biomed engineering career with just a bachelor’s degree is a tough row to hoe, relative to what you could get with a more traditional engineering degree. For whatever reason, the market for BS biomed engineers is relatively weak (compared to other engineers).

Hence, I would say that if you are seriously considering working as an engineer right after school, then EE, ME, or ChemE would probably be a better choice than would be BiomedE.