<p>I know biomedical engineering is mostly engineering courses which a bio major know nothing about. A bio bs has limited career options and tremendous amount of interest is needed for phd. Has anyone ever consider this? Applying engineering to biological system feels interesting. Although biomedical engineering is suppose to be one of the fastest growing jobs through 2018, I also read that the career outlook of biomedical engineering isn't very good and that its highly competitive due to the small number of jobs so most of the competition have M.S. degree. The current job market doesn't reflect the so called growth. A friend of mine that has a biomedical engineering b.s. told me he couldn't find a job and i heard from him and from reading that most biomedical engineering jobs are taken by other engineering discipline such as E.E. Because biomedical engineering only need to know basic biology (they only take a few intro biology courses) and that the degree is too general. Unlike EE that gets really in depth about circuitry.</p>
<p>Has someone considered that idea? I’m sure they have, but it’s a horrible waste of time.</p>
<p>I believe BME is massively overhyped. The reason it is growing so fast is because it is a very small field. A small number of jobs will lead to a very high growth rate. I think some people are interpreting this growth rate as evidence that the field is absolutely booming. It’s no doubt doing well but I would be extremely hesitant to issue an extremely optimistic view of the fields long term future.</p>
<p>I am not surprised that your friend could not get a BME job with a BS. To get a true BME job it is pretty much mandatory to have a MS or PhD. Maybe if you get a substantial amount of good internship experience you could overcome just having a BS. What’s going to be interesting is in the next few years when all these students who entered BME expecting boundless job opportunities graduate only to be sorely disappointed.</p>
<p>I think PurdueEE is right.
BME major does not specialize in any subject. At BS, you learn some bio, some EE, some ME, and some CS. This is not what employers want from an engineer.</p>
<p>yeah what i thought too. thanks for the reply.</p>