<p>Recruiting is often local or regional, especially for smaller companies (bigger companies have more recruiting resources to recruit widely).</p>
<p>Nothing prevents a student from applying widely to companies that are not visiting the career center. But it takes extra work to find and apply to those companies. Also, he should not rule out jobs in his major that are not in the exact industry – not everyone gets his/her dream job right out of college, and people do change industries in mid-career.</p>
<p>$120,000 is an unreasonable amount of debt for most students. Also be aware that the biomedical engineering job market is weaker than most other engineering job markets, based on career surveys.</p>