How promising is BME at Iowa?

rwehavingfunyet
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:00:23 +0000

If you do wind up needing to decide between UIUC and Iowa, please let me know. I attended UIUC (for engineering) and my oldest attends Iowa now. I’d be happy to share my detailed thoughts.

Quick summary – I think both schools are great, with a lot to offer. UIUC is of course larger, with perhaps modestly more variety that comes with the size, but also a little more difficult to navigate, and more expensive if you are OOS. Can’t help on the BME front. With the smaller Iowa size, the campus feels a little warmer, although I am from Chicago, so UIUC never seemed large or difficult to navigate to me.

Hard to go wrong with the 3 schools you are considering – good luck!