So if you can afford CWRU, and she likes it - it’s great.
It’s a lower paying engineering field - and where you go should matter little.
Case BME in 2024 is showing 45% working, 47% continuing to study, 4.5% haven’t yet found jobs (not sure of the snapshot time) - they don’t show average salaries but by bands - and a quarter report $70-75K - with a near even spread above $75K and below $70K. 17 total showed salaries.
OSU shows a $71,450 average with an $80K 75th percentile. They show 282 reporting with 204 reporting salaries.
U Mich reports a $73,437 average amongst 47 respondents.
Just for other data points - UCONN = $70,845, UMN $71,000.
I would contend that where you go, including UM, doesn’t matter.
I would also contend that this statement - doesn’t preclude any school.
Leading towards CWRU for research experience.
One can do research anywhere - my son’s large southern flagship had lots of opportunities sent out the entire time and his college gf did research every year. You simply had to ask.
Case is a great school - and if you can afford it and what comes afterward, then there’s no issue. If you can’t, then OSU is great or you can find a smaller and cheaper alternative.
You note both are debt free so the question becomes will the next level require debt if you go to CWRU and are you ok with it?
To me, you should go to Case based on preference - if the money works out - because you didn’t like OSU and you like a smaller school. Given they report salaries from few biomedical grads, you might dig deeper to ensure the program itself is robust enough. Clearly OSU program is much larger.
Best of luck.