[Andy from Chapel Hill]

My son is a Biomedical Engineering student at Vanderbilt. The starting salaries for BME’s are in the range of $55-60k/yr. Here is what the VU website says about placement:

“* Of the graduates who sought employment, 95 percent had jobs within six months of graduation.
* After graduation, 20 percent of graduates go to on to graduate school and 15 percent go to professional schools.”

His BME friends at NC State and UVa say the results are very similar at their schools.

BME is more difficult to offshore due to FDA issues. But, my son researched the placement data BEFORE he applied to college since I said he was on his own on Graduation Day +1.

[SeekAndFind]

His BME friends at NC State and UVa say the results are very similar at their schools.

BME is more difficult to offshore due to FDA issues. But, my son researched the placement data BEFORE he applied to college since I said he was on his own on Graduation Day +1.



Good for your son. But maybe you can enlighten the folks in this thread, exactly what does a bioengineer do ? Where are most of the areas of employment and who are hiring (other than hospitals ) ?

Thanks.