Tufts or UNC Chapel Hill?

Mastadon
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:20:39 +0000

@warblersrule- Thanks for the info.

I think I have figured it out.

Biomedical is one of the more recent additions to the field of engineering.

When it came time to create a program…

The engineering program was based at NC State
The medical school was based at Chapel Hill

So they created a program that spanned the two campuses

Makes sense, but has implications.

Tufts has two “bio related” campuses as well (three if you count the vet school).

The Medical, Dental and Nutrition schools are downtown,
Engineering is in Medford/Somerville .

The Biomedical Program is in Medford/Somerville - which has a different set of implications.

Harvard, MIT and Harvard’s largest teaching hospital reside in between Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus and the downtown campus (there are research partnerships between the universities/hospitals).

This makes it complicated to compare…

it’s markedly more pleasant to wait on public transit in NC than Boston in the winter.

I would agree with this, but I would also assert that when it does snow in NC it is markedly less safe to drive in NC than Boston