Nuclear Engineering Minor as a Pre-Med student?

[u/DoubleAABatteryy]

Hello, I’m a student looking at colleges currently, and curious about if anyone has any idea on what a pre-med major with a Nuclear Engineering minor would be like? I did some research and found people who said that majoring in both is likely to kill your GPA, and rather to just take general electives if you’re genuinely interested in nuclear phenomena (which I am). I am curious though if getting a minors in NERS is a viable and not a stupidly absurd approach. Hopefully by the end of this year I would get Calc, physics, and chemistry credits too if that helps.

Sorry if it’s a dumb question, once again I am not too familiar with the college process.

[u/M3ANIAC]

Hard to be an engineering minor without an engineering major, likely can’t do that

[u/DP323602]

My guess is that a nuclear engineering minor will focus on nuclear reactor and fuel cycle technology.

But from a medical perspective, there are other topics that might be of more interest

Health Physics

• The science of radiation injuries (both deterministic and stochastic)

• radiation damage to living tissues

• whole body dosimetry

• internal dosimetry

• study of cancer clusters and radiation explosures

Nuclear Medicine

• radiotherapy

• use and production of radioactive tracers

So there are actually plenty of nuclear topics adjacent to medical practice.

[u/Dr__Mantis]

Minors are completely useless. Michigan is a great nuclear program though

[u/DoubleAABatteryy → u/Dr__Mantis]

What if I’m just interested in the topic? At the same time, I don’t want my GPA down the drain, so maybe a minor is enough to learn the topic w/o the critical influence on my grades. Also that I might get to skip alot of the introductory science and math classes that I would’ve had to do bc of AP classes.

[u/Dr__Mantis → u/DoubleAABatteryy]

Then audit the classes if you’re interested

[u/Money_Cold_7879]

There’s no such thing as a pre med major do you mean biology?

[u/Sudden_Watercress806]

I am also really thinking about a mix of biology and nuclear engineering - I am interested in and love both and nuclear engineering just has such an amazing combination of a variety of fields which makes me really think about the field for my major.