I want to do biomedical engineering, but I figure I can do that as a masters after college.

But... this is what I've been considering.

Double Major - Majoring in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering.

Major Minor - Chemical Engineering major, with Japanese minor.

Major Minor - Biomedical Engineering major, with Japanese minor.

Double Major Minor - Both engineerings, with Japanese minor.

I ideally want to do the last one... but I dunno, too much?  I don't think so, engineering is closely related, so it wouldn't be that many extra courses...

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well why would you need the japanese? =/
are you going to have time for a double major?

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I have an interest in languages, and it's a language I would want to learn.  If I didn't do it as a minor, I would continue teaching myself as I am doing now, or otherwise take summer classes at another school to learn it.  I'm learning it either way, basically...

You said you were interested in a masters degree? in engineering? That's unusual from what I've heard (getting the Ph.D, instead). Unless you were thinking of a MBA (which is tentative for me as well).

What I've come down to is a major in either Biomed. or Chem. Engineering, plus or minus two out of my three other interests: management minor (it'll look good on the transcript), Japanese minor, or French minor.

Unfortunately for my uni requirements, I can only choose the major/minor combo, otherwise I lose my scholarship and pay a whole lot extra for another year of college, or pay around $500/hour for every extra credit over the 18 max limit.

Those are the realities I face, so maybe they'll help, but if you have the flexibility/resources to try all of your possible plans, I'd advise either the double major or major/minor. I wouldn't dream of making you pick between the engineering majors. Personally, I resonate more with Chemistry, but I'm definitely putting off thinking about it anymore 'till next semester.

Hope it helped.

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Well OP, it seems we have exactly the ideas in mind. Do you have an idea of how rigid your course registration or degree requirements are? That played a big role for me, as I don't plan on doing more than 4 years undergrad at my uni, and I'm not interested in grad school either (not until much further down the road).

You said you were interested in a masters degree? in engineering? That's unusual from what I've heard (getting the Ph.D, instead). Unless you were thinking of a MBA (which is tentative for me as well).

What I've come down to is a major in either Biomed. or Chem. Engineering, plus or minus two out of my three other interests: management minor (it'll look good on the transcript), Japanese minor, or French minor.  

Unfortunately for my uni requirements, I can only choose the major/minor combo, otherwise I lose my scholarship and pay a whole lot extra for another year of college, or pay around $500/hour for every extra credit over the 18 max limit.

Those are the realities I face, so maybe they'll help, but if you have the flexibility/resources to try all of your possible plans, I'd advise either the double major or major/minor. I wouldn't dream of making you pick between the engineering majors. Personally, I resonate more with Chemistry, but I'm definitely putting off thinking about it anymore 'till next semester.  

Hope it helped.

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Thank you :).

I've been thinking about it, and I've looked very deeply into my course requirements.  At this point, it's quite clear that taking any Japanese courses would help me in no way towards my major, so now you are talking about two seperate course loads.  Because of my highschool being in anotehr country, I don't have any of the American classes (history, poli sci, or cultures) requirements covered from my school.  These classes will become my breadth requirements (basically general education requirements).  That means that Japanese would be empty units towards my major, and at this point, I want to finish in three years max.

To compromise with this, I've considered it this way.  What I want from Japanese is fluency, not the degree.  Whether or not I have a degree does not need to be the only thing that shows fluency.  I will stick to my one major, and at community colleges take Japanese courses.  Likewise, I'm going to start taking my breadth requirements at a junior college too, so I can accelerate it.

In terms of masters, I did mean phD, lol.  I'm thinking that maybe I'll make my concentration in biotechnology.  I'm not too sure at this point.  But this way, when it comes time to start graduate learning, I still have the ability to get my phD in the biomedical field, right?  Otherwise, looking through the course requirements and stuff, I don't have as much flexibility as I'd like if I'd like to uphold a goal of finishing in three years or less.

And the way I see it?  If I do it this way... and I decide I DO want to double major or minor, then I won't take longer than three years, because I've been knocking out things step by step, right?  It gives me more flexibility this way :).