Practical to double major biology and mechanical engineering?

jwxie
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:15:31 +0000

You should consider mechanical for now, and go to graduate school for BME if you still want to pursue career in biology field (and it’s engineering) IMO.

You should only major in physics if you want to pursue graduate physics degree (as a double major). That’s what my physics advisor told us.
If it only meant a year more to earn double major in one of the engineerings and plus the physics major, and one has decided to do graduate physics - it’s totally worth it.
A major in CS is too much. A minor is reasonable if you want to learn CS through classes. Some people are good software engineers by experience and reading. I am definitely not.
I can only learn through classes and doing the work.

All engineers take at least one intro computer class. Try it and see if you like it or not.
You can sign up for one more cs classes and maybe you will like it.
It’s actually quite helpful to have background in computer science these days.