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Biomedical Engineering
Engineering for medicine: implants, prosthetics, imaging and medical devices.
Who it suits
IRC
- Thinker: analysing, researching, figuring out why
- Builder: hands-on, tools, machines, outdoors
- Organiser: structure, data, precision
Students here tend to be a bit more curious than average.
Builds on
Mathematics ●●Physics ●●Biology ●●Chemistry ●●
Typically offers
High salary · Job security · Working with technology · Impact on society or the planet
Where it leads
Biomedical engineer · Medical device engineer · Clinical engineer · Bioinstrumentation engineer
US median earnings, one year after a bachelor’s
$56,251
College Scorecard, US Department of Education
453 programmes tracked
🇺🇸 United States 255🇩🇪 Germany 132🇦🇺 Australia 29🇨🇭 Switzerland 20🇦🇹 Austria 10🇫🇮 Finland 5🇫🇷 France 2
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