<p>No.</p>
<p>Let’s try another go at explaining the BME/BioTech route at Tufts (note that environmental science works the same way). You need a major that is NOT one of the above. For BME, you can do liberal arts or engineering (as I said, they are trying to keep it flexible - just read the different courses required for each). So, you would have to MAJOR in mechanical engineering if you wanted to take BME. Basically, you graduate with two majors - one that is your primary major, and then BME, which is your secondary major. You’ll get advisors in each department, but, whenever you double-major, you are required to indicate one as the primary. Here, you are not allowed to have BME as your primary major. </p>
<p>Now, I think that Tufts is allowing double-major and minor (which changed sometime so my class could not take advantage of it…grrr… too late for me to have snagged math as well), so you could, for example, do chemical engineering as your primary, BME as your secondary, and mechE as your minor (you would also, for the record, go crazy). </p>
<p>Anyway, I’m serious - if you call or email the department, they’ll be more than happy to talk with you. For better or for worse, the chemE dep’t is very biology-oriented; there were only a handful of straight-up chemical engineers. Most were all excited about cloning and stuff (not me, however, so I’m a very bad person to talk to about this).</p>