<p>Some chemical engineering programs have rebranded themselves as “chemical and biomolecular engineering” and perhaps thrown in a semester of biology to the course requirements.</p>
<p>If you check the career surveys at various universities, chemical engineering graduates generally do better than bioengineering graduates.</p>
<p>[RPI’s</a> career survey](<a href=“Students | Career and Professional Development”>Students | Career and Professional Development) is not as complete as [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html]those”>University Graduate Career Surveys - Career Opportunities & Internships - College Confidential Forums]those</a> at some other universities<a href=“some%20of%20which%20include%20placement%20rates%20by%20major”>/url</a>, but it does have average pay of graduates who got jobs. Biomedical engineering is the lowest paid of the engineering majors graduating in 2010 from RPI (even lower than civil engineering, which one expects to be low due to the real estate crash driven economic downturn).</p>
<p>Be aware that the closer your major is to biology, the more the masses of pre-meds who did not get into medical school will be competing for your job.</p>