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<p>A dangerous misconception. Biology, biochemistry, and chemistry have relatively poor job and career prospects (about as good as humanities and social studies majors other than business and economics). Bioengineering is also generally worse than other engineering. Other engineering and science majors can be subject to business and industry cycles (e.g. civil engineering now (poor) versus 2005 (good); computer science now (good) versus 2000-2003 (poor)).</p>
<p>If you are not sure, or intend to go into a low paying major, you need to be more sensitive to costs and avoiding student loan debt when selecting a school.</p>
<p>Some chemical engineering departments have rebranded themselves as “chemical and biomolecular engineering” and added a biology course or few to the curriculum, presumably because of high student demand for bio-anything majors.</p>