My D is a bioengineering major. At her school they say about 1/3 of the BioE’s get jobs right out of school, 1/3 go to grad school and 1/3 go to med school. But I also sat through a presentation her freshmen year where the presenter said they don’t necessarily encourage pre-meds to major in BioE. It’s a hard route to take when grades are very important for med school admission. But, obviously many kids go that route and get into med school so it works out. And they have good career options should they decide not to go to med school vs a biology major.
As for careers, lots of kids transfer out of Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering because they hear job prospects are better for Mechanical Engineering. My D thought about it but she does not want to be a Mechanical Engineer, it’s the BIO part of Bioengineering that interests her. She is interested in medical device design. She has a great internship lined up this summer as an R&D Intern for a medical device design company and a lot of her classmates have internships and jobs with major medical device companies (Medtronic, Boston Scientific, GE, Stryker, etc.) and some go into more chemistry/pharma type fields like with companies like J&J. I know this is antidotal, and maybe the job market is harder for Bioengineering majors, but we weren’t going to push our D into a major she’s less interested in over one she is passionate about.