Masters in Biomedical Engineering -- Duke or Johns Hopkins?

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I’m not really familiar with either program and can’t speak to specifics, so will just offer a couple general pointers:

Research-
I’m planning on being on the thesis track and have listed a few professors for both programs. For Duke, I enter under the Director’s of Master’s Studies, which should help in finding available research opportunities if the professors I’ve listed aren’t available. JHU says that they assist students in finding labs, but the main responsibility belongs to me. I feel as though both program’s research opportunities are very similar.

Regardless of where you go, you should assume that the responsibility of finding a research advisor will be on you. In fact, at this point, you should already have contacted (or be in the process of contacting) potential advisors to figure out who might have space and/or funding and/or projects for you in their lab and might be willing to take you in.

However, everyone knows JHU as “the” BME powerhouse, so JHU might be a better research program.

What’s more important is finding an advisor whose research interests (as well as space, funding, and availability) align most well with yours.