Is BE the best engineering major for premeds?
No, it is no better than any other major. Keep in mind that Biological Engineering is not MIT’s substitute for “Biomedical Engineering” as offered by other schools with curricula containing medicine and physiology classes (at MIT, you can focus on Biomedical Engineering through the Biomedical Engineering Minor Degree). Biological Engineering is engineering analysis, design, and synthesis based in modern molecular life sciences and has wide-ranging applications in technologies outside of health care. Many application areas of engineering in medicine are better represented in the curricula of the traditional engineering disciplines, and the premed requirements can be easily fulfilled by students in many engineering majors. Students who are strongly interested in medicine are advised to explore all of the options throughout the School of Engineering and possibly consider combining the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Minor degree with a traditional engineering SB.
