How competitive is Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering for undergraduates?

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering is very competitive because Hopkins is one of the strongest BME schools in the country, but for undergraduate admission you are generally admitted to the university, not directly to the major. In other words, applying with biomedical engineering as your intended interest usually does not make freshman admission separately harder in the way a capped direct-admit major might.

What does matter is that Hopkins expects strong preparation for engineering overall, especially in math and science, and BME is one of its most popular and rigorous paths. Hopkins also has a deep reputation in this field through the Whiting School of Engineering, the Homewood campus engineering programs, and major research ties to the Johns Hopkins Medicine ecosystem, so a lot of strong students are drawn to it.

The competition is real, but it is mostly competition to get into Johns Hopkins itself. Once enrolled, students in engineering typically move into the biomedical engineering track through the university’s curriculum rather than by being locked into that major at admission.