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Biomedical Eng vs Chem Eng vs EEE vs CompSci

Hi everyone! I just wanted to send in the forum to hear some of your opinions. I am currently in year 12 right now and I'm deciding between the four university courses above (A-Levels are Maths, FM, Physics, Chemistry). I have always wanted to go into Engineering as it is more practical than say Computer Science (which is just coding as far as I have seen??? I still really really really enjoy coding though) but right now I don't really know because I have mainly done coding projects but nothing much with electronics even though I think I would enjoy that. My end goal is to work in the health/ renewable energy sector as these subjects interest me, but I have heard that doing bio and chem is a bit narrow and if I want to go into other industries then EEE or even mech is better at switching. Any thoughts? Thanks so much!
Original post by Violinakat
Hi everyone! I just wanted to send in the forum to hear some of your opinions. I am currently in year 12 right now and I'm deciding between the four university courses above (A-Levels are Maths, FM, Physics, Chemistry). I have always wanted to go into Engineering as it is more practical than say Computer Science (which is just coding as far as I have seen??? I still really really really enjoy coding though) but right now I don't really know because I have mainly done coding projects but nothing much with electronics even though I think I would enjoy that. My end goal is to work in the health/ renewable energy sector as these subjects interest me, but I have heard that doing bio and chem is a bit narrow and if I want to go into other industries then EEE or even mech is better at switching. Any thoughts? Thanks so much!

Computer science is not just coding
For example
https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/computer-science
Year one is
Continuous mathematics
Design and analysis of algorithms
Digital systems
Discrete mathematics
Functional programming
Imperative programming
Introduction to proof systems
Linear algebra
Probability
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Original post by BankaiGintoki
Computer science is not just coding
For example
https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/computer-science
Year one is
Continuous mathematics
Design and analysis of algorithms
Digital systems
Discrete mathematics
Functional programming
Imperative programming
Introduction to proof systems
Linear algebra
Probability


Thanks for the reply! I completely see now that it is not just coding, but for me it still feels a bit too theoretical (I've realised CompSci is a lot of maths too, which I would enjoy but I like application of maths more). I guess the question I now have is (and I assume there are varying opinions for this): is it better to take something general like EEE or go straight into Biomedical? (I have kind of separated chemical from my debate of EEE against Bio)

Thanks so much!

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