What do Vanderbilt Biomedical Engineering graduates do after graduation?
Roughly half of our graduates enter the job market, taking positions with employers focused on medical equipment, medical computing, biomedical imaging, regulatory affairs, biomedical research, software, other engineering, and teaching as well as government and military service. Employers include Accretive Health, Accuray, Boston Scientific, Brainlab, Cordis, Ethicon, Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation, GE Medical Systems, Globus Medical, Google, Jacobs Engineering, Johnson & Johnson, Medicraft, Medtronic, Merck, NASA, National Institutes of Health, National Instruments, NFL Players Association, OrthoHelix Surgical Designs, Pathfinder Therapeutics, Philips Medical Systems, PharmaSys, Roche Diagnostics, RTI Biologics, Smith & Nephew, Stryker, and Wylie Laboratories. About 30% of our graduates choose to go on to graduate school, most in biomedical engineering with a few in management (MBA), law, other engineering, or life science programs. About 20% of our graduates attend medical sch
About half of our graduates enter the job market, taking positions with employers focused on medical equipment, medical computing, biomedical imaging, regulatory affairs, biomedical research, software, other engineering, and pre-college teaching or national laboratories and facilities including the National Institutes of Health, government, and the military. About 30% of our graduates choose to go on to graduate school, most in biomedical engineering with a few in management (MBA), other engineering, or life science programs. About 20% of our graduates attend medical school. A report on the long-term placement of VU BME graduates is available on this web site.
