Job Prospects in Duke BME?

Zonlicht
Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:20:22 +0000

BME prestige doesn’t matter if it is not that great of a degree. It is not that BME job prospects are not good, it is that there aren’t good BME jobs for BME bachelor holders. You either get shuffled into some sales, technical support rabbit hole at a biotech firm, or are forced to rely on your ECE or ME skills to land a job. (Assuming you haven’t swept up by the banking/consulting fever, or are a premed in the first place.)

You can’t minor in engineering as far I know. If you want an engineering job straight out of college, major in ECE or ME. If you want to study BME, get ECE or ME then go to BME graduate school.