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What can I study after biomedical engineering?

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Alycia’s Answer

I have a friend who is a pre-med Biomedical Engineering major! After a gap year (or two) he plans on applying to medical school. So it is possible to major in something that isn't Biology and still be on a pre-med track.
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You can study anything after biomedical engineering. Earning an engineering degree proves to yourself (and shows the world) that you are tenacious, analytical, smart, and a problem-solver. Your first couple of years in college will consist of foundational science and math classes (for example: calculus - at least 4 levels, chemistry, physics, programming, labs, statics, dynamics, statistics, etc.), along with any general university-required courses (e.g. language, expository writing, etc.). In most engineering programs, you have to choose your major by the end of freshman year, not sophomore year like non-engineering or specialty school majors, so that you can graduate in 4 years, if that's your plan. You will also likely need to take more credits than a liberal arts major to graduate from an engineering program, so your courseload and schedule semester-to-semester will be packed. Major classes are fun though, and give you hands-on problem-solving experiences and opportunities to present your work in writing, orally, and visually, which are required corporate-world skills. You'll also have plenty of teamwork challenges which will also prepare you for life after college! With a biomedical engineering degree, you could continue your engineering studies in that discipline or another engineering discipline. You could go to medical school. You could get your MBA. With your B.S. in biomedical engineering, you could immediately take the Patent Bar Exam (check out https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/patent-and-trademark-practitioners/becoming-patent-practitioner) and become a Patent Agent, a person who is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office to help others apply for patents. If you are interested, you could go to law school and then take the state Bar Exam to become a lawyer (note that you do NOT need to take the Patent Bar Exam to become a patent lawyer after law school, you just need it if you're going to file patent applications for a living). As a law school applicant, you would stand apart from the crowd, because traditionally, engineers are not associated with heavy reading and writing, and your engineering degree (really, any engineering degree) gives you that distinction. The bottom line is, studying engineering teaches you how to teach yourself, gives you courage and skills to learn things you don't know, inspires your curiosity and creative thinking, trains you to think analytically and logically, focuses on solving problems and practical matters rather than just theory, and prepares you for anything you want to do later in life. Good luck!
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