MacBooks dont support most of the wackadoodle software we need in engineering. I dont know about biomed but im doing chemical, 1st year, and I'm really glad i got an absolute tank of a Windows device.
At £1100, I got an i7 9750h, 16gb of DDR4 dual-channel RAM, and an RTX 2060 graphics card. -That last was because of AutoCAD, and other graphics software I'll need.
You need a powerful processor and at least 16gb of RAM. and a decent (at least a 1660Ti or an RTX graphics card) given your price range.
This is basically a gaming laptop- all of the above is also the recommended spec for gaming, by coincidence.
So don't expect to have a thin and light cute little cartoon like a MacBook or a Dell XPS, or the like.
It'll be a chunky beast with a stupid battery life, but at least you can run the work you need to on your own laptop rather than being tied down to university workstations.
At my university, they have high spec computers with the most powerful graphics cards and processors available - 6 years ago. They crash somewhat often when doing the most intense workloads so yeah.