As you move into upper year physics, you should really be exploring as much as you can. I don't think there's any specific formula for doing this. Lots of people don't really figure out what subfield they want to get into until graduate school is looming. But things that can help include...
The good news is that there is a lot of overlap between these fields. Sometimes people who do their undergraduate degrees in engineering take enough physics courses to qualify themselves for graduate school in physics. Sometimes physicists end up "engineering" some pretty cool stuff.
When you...
I agree with V50 that this is a good topic to discus with an academic advisor.
One thing I might say is that if this choice boils down to needing to do an extra year of undergraduate studies for what essentially amounts to the "prestige" of a different school, I wouldn't bother.
It sounds like...
For what it's worth neither is necessarily a bad option. Engineering is a professional field, and so when you finish you should have lots of option for work (although software engineering as I understand it is less regulated than other branches). With mathematics a lot will depend on the details...
I might just throw out the general advice that it's better not to specialize too much right off the bat.
If you're starting an undergraduate degree, just go with physics to begin with if that's an option. As you advance, develop more skills and go through some academic bottlenecks, you can get...
In my experience, it's not so much a question of compatibility. You have to very specifically *want* to do a PhD to be successful at it. If you're coming to the end of an MSc and you should either be excited about a specific project or field, or at least actively exploring different options. If...
In the Canadian system the physics GRE is often used as a mitigator. Many schools will either require, or highly recommend that you take the PGRE if you're an international student.
Undergraduate curricula across the country are reasonably uniform, at least insofar as the core courses. But once...
There's advantages and disadvantages to each path, including just majoring in physics alone.
One thing that can help you decide is to go through the course calendar and pick out the courses that you most want to take and then see which program best lines up with what you want to do.
It can...
Maybe I'm a little late to the conversation but the first big challenge to graduate admissions is even getting to the assessment stage. Most graduate schools have a hard GPA cut off for graduate admissions of 3.0. So when you apply, if your grades don't convert to a 3.0 GPA by however that...
You might also want to consider not just GPA, but the fact that you are currently only enrolled in four courses. If you drop one, that's down to three. Maybe four is considered a full course load at your university, but in my experience it's usually five. And more to the point people on...
There is an academic bottleneck effect that a lot of undergrad students experience. When it happens often depends on a number of factors: the quality of their high school education, the details of the university curriculum, management of prerequisites, etc.
In high school your peers are, for...
Just to throw in my own two cents on the matter... one of the big reasons for the thesis (or more accurately, a dissertation) is documentation.
As you work on a PhD, you do a lot of research. You start with a tremendous amount of background reading and skill development in your own particular...
This seems like the kind of question that's best answered by Googling and searching through university program calendars. I'm sure somewhere it's possible, though likely not without consequence. Single major engineering programs tend to be crammed full of course work as it is. Double majoring is...
In my experience most classes are taught during clinical hours on weekdays, although labs and QA work need to be done outside of clinical hours because the machines are busy treating patients during the day. So I would anticipate some late nights. A program may also have a clinical rotation...
A certificate program could be an option for you. Note that there is minimum level of physics courses that applicants generally need to satisfy, and BME can vary in program content, so make sure you read the fine print to make sure you have the necessary coursework background before applying...