How is the job prospect for biomedical engineers?
I am currently a high school senior and I am planning on attending Ohio State, and majoring in biomedical engineering. I was wondering whether biomedical engineering has a good job prospect over the next 5 to 10 years. Also do most biomedical engineers complete graduate school prior to entering the job market? Does anyone know if Ohio State’s biomedical engineering program is prestigious, because it is a new major, yet I am unsure whether it is prestigious. Tags: engineer, graduate In Science we trust 7:06 pm on March 6, 2010 Biomedical Engineering is a great field. It is a growth field and is one of the most recession proof areas of the economy. It is particularly a good field if you go into the higher end of business which is about designing, making and delivering medical device technology. For example, pacemakers, catheters, stents, artificial hearts, dialysis machines, artificial joints, and vascular grafts are some of the devices that biomedical engineers help produce. Most of the