What are the drawbacks to majoring in biomedical engineering?

-Biomedical Engineering is such a large field, thus even after 4 years of study, you will have a surface understanding of a lot of different sub-field (imaging, tissue engineering, optics, modeling, nanobiotechnology, prosthetics, etc.) and almost no in-depth understanding of anything. read more

In engineering, you learn technical drawing, conception, mathematics, physics and how to apply it. You gain useful skills that can be applied into real life. With biomedical science, what you get is a way of thinking. It boosts your critical thinking skills because you have to think like a scientist to every articles you read. read more

Being a biomedical engineer versus majoring in it is completely different. I majored in BME as an undergrad and it made things really tough. Both finding a job wise and also I didn't get my money's worth. read more