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The Real World: BME graduates reflect on whether universities are providing adequate preparation for a career in industry.

ABSTRACT:

Let?s face it: Within the United States, a school degree isn?t what it was. Currently, forty sixpercent of recent school graduates think about themselves underemployed and in jobs that don't need their college degrees?degrees that have already value many of these grads and their families hundreds of thousands of bucks in student loans, with no promise of employment and salary to pay those loans back. But engineering majors are said to be outliers. Engineering as a field is widely thought-about one amongst, if not the most, lucrative academic ways for students seeking well-paid employment immediately following school. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that almost 40% of the 45 most highly paid professions that require only a bachelor?s degree are in engineering. Salaries for all biomedical engineers, entry level or not, are among the best, with a median pay people$eighty six,960. And engineering departments at colleges don't seem to be shy to advertise these numbers: the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Texas, Austin, declares on its Web page that, ?electing to graduate with a significant in biomedical engineering opens the door to an ever-growing quantity of job opportunities,? citing a seventy twop.c, ten-year job growth forecast. Boston University?s program cites U.S. News and World Report?s claim that BME is that the country?s fastest-growing occupation.