johns hopkins ee, a bit confused

[hashirama]

Hi all,

 

I have just been accepted into JHU ECE PhD. This is my only application to ECE field this cycle (the rest of my apps I directed them to other bioinformatics programs). My interests are computational biology and systems biology, and the ECE department in JHU seems to do a good job at hosting multidisciplinary projects with BME and School of Medicine. Even my Prof is from both ECE and BME, and his research is certainly interesting.

 

However, JHU EE is not that well-ranked...

 

I would love to know how to make the best out of this ECE offer. Is there any way I can transfer it to BME PhD, or get some external certifications (with other biomedical research centre at JHU)?

 

My goal after this PhD is to take a MD in a good med school (JHU included ). I would love to receive some advices from you of how to turn this PhD offer to something useful for my med school preparation later on.

 

Tks!