After MATH 2204
Gateway: MATH 2204
Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate BMES coursework.
Generated from Virginia Tech’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate BMES work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.
Showing the 87 BMES and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 47 more BMES courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on BMES, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Biochemistryall required
Chemical Engineering2 required · verify with the official sheet
Chemistry2 required · verify with the official sheet
Civil and Environmental Engineering1 required
Computer Science1 required
Engineering1 required
Food Science and Technologyall required
Mathematics1 required
Materials Science and Engineeringall required
Nuclear Science and Engineering1 required
Sustainable Biomaterialsall required
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in BMES. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
6 courses deep, ending at BMES 4016
6 courses deep, ending at BMES 6125
5 courses deep, ending at BMES 3124
5 courses deep, ending at BMES 5304
All BMES courses in the Virginia Tech catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under BMES yet.
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BMES does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Virginia Tech campus feed.