Biomedical Engineering

  • Biomedical engineers develop devices and procedures that solve medical and health problems
  • Many biomedical engineers do research with medical scientists to develop and test artificial organs, and prostheses
  • Biomedical engineering is a combination of biology and medicine with engineering
  • There are 16,000 biomedical engineers in the United States in 2009
  • The biomedical engineering field is expected to grow by 72% in the next decades
  • The starting salary for a biomedical engineer with a Bachelor's degree is $54,158
  • The average salary for a biomedical engineer is $77,400
  • The top three schools for biomedical engineering are Johns Hopkins University, MIT, and University of California-San Diego
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