<p>If you’re lucky enough to get accepted to Duke, its the clear choice here by a very large margin. Duke has the second best BME program in the country behind JHU and is one of the top feeders schools in the country to the most elite business positions. If you decide to go into business instead of engineering, Duke has a giant advantage over JHU.</p>
<p>The thing with good state schools is that you don’t have much flexibility with regards to switching majors or career paths once you enroll like you do at the top private schools. For instance, UVA has a great undergrad biz program but you have to decide by at least sophomore year that you want to pursue that path and sacrifice any dreams of being an engineer that you had in the process. If you stay the engineering route at UVA for all four years, on the other hand, then you sacrifice your opportunities to work for elite companies because the IBanks and consultancies who visit UVA will mostly hire kids from McIntire and not from Engineering.</p>
<p>At schools like Duke however, you can major in whatever you want and then get whatever job you want because companies recruit from all majors when they visit the school since it doesn’t have separate vocational programs like undergraduate business or nursing. In fact, the engineers are in the best position in the school job wise because they can either work in the industry, go to grad school, join the finance world, do a fellowship, enter a consulting firm, etc. etc. The world is your oyster if you major in BME at Duke and do even moderately well.</p>