Biomedical engineering or medicine

You can become a biomedical engineer with a bachelor's degree, while a medical degree is the minimum educational requirement to be a doctor.

You can become a biomedical engineer with a bachelor's degree, while a medical degree is the minimum educational requirement to be a doctor. Although both biomedical engineers and doctors can earn lucrative salaries, doctors have a much higher national average income.

What are the job responsibilities of a biomedical engineer?

Biomedical engineering jobs combine engineering and biological science to design software and instruments for healthcare.
They also develop prosthetics and artificial body parts, oversee drug therapies or pharmaceutical production, health monitoring and create software and systems to improve the medical field.

What is the median salary for a biomedical engineer?

Biomedical engineers make $79,436 per year on average, or $38.19 per hour, in the United States.
Biomedical engineers on the lower end of that spectrum, the bottom 10% to be exact, make roughly $57,000 a year, while the top 10% makes $108,000.
Location impacts how much a biomedical engineer can expect to make.

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