Is Hopkins BME worth debt?

Blah2009
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:14:56 +0000

Emphasis on undergraduate research and experiences + Smaller class sizes = better research opportunities = better recommendations = better jobs and better options for grad and/or medical school after graduation. You likely won’t be top of your class at Hopkins, but that’s the point. I was not top of my class, but still made it into top grad schools like my other classmates who either graduated middle of their class or higher at Hopkins (you have to really try at JHU to be at the bottom half of your class - think trying as playing world of warcraft all day instead of going to class). My research and relationship with professors from small class sizes is what really set me a part through my recommendations. You will have a harder time achieving results like this at a state school as there will be more people vying for the professor’s attention and because there’s isn’t such an emphasis on undergraduate research and experiences as at Hopkins (See [Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards](Provost's Undergraduate Research Awards) , See [Home[/url] , see another brand new undergrad program here: [url=New grants for KSAS undergrads : Gazette Archives]New grants for KSAS undergrads | Johns Hopkins University - The Gazette](Woodrow Wilson Fellowship | Undergraduate Research, Scholarly & Creative Activity | Johns Hopkins University) . It’s free money that will let you do WHATEVER YOU WANT that will also benefit you for grad school and jobs later on. Imagine getting paid to visit or work abroad at someplace you’ve always wanted to visit. You have to realize going to a state school is a risk also. What if you don’t graduate top of your class (there are plenty of people each year who turn down top privates to attend good state schools for monetary reasons along with slackers who hit their stride in college)? It’s far from a given. JHU’s connections run deep in academia and industry through the professors who are integrated with both. You won’t go wrong.

As for earning potential, I was offered 60k (back then and like now, the starting salary was around 45k) as an engineer coming out of Hopkins and will be making 130k after getting my Ph.D. (probably more a function of earning an engineering Ph.D. rather than the specific schools, although Hopkins and Stanford in tandem did make my resume stand out).