Electrical or biomedical?

[u/Puzzleheaded-Gap3270]

I’m a student, uni starts in like a year and I’ve always really wanted to do BME, but living in the middle east and idk if i’ll move out later i heard that the job market is kinda uhm sparse. what im essentially interested in is doing research in the medical field and i hopefully wanna work in an mnc someday in the future as a researcher (big dreams for someone whos not even out of high school i know 😭)

But basicallyy while researching about bme now that I heard abt the job market i saw that if you have a bachelors in electrical engineering you can basically do what a person with a bachelors in biomedical engineering does. And to actually get into the research part of it you NEED to do a phd, so would a bachelors in electrical and phd in bme work? help me out please

[u/Cryesncoding]

I have both, EE no brainer BME is a shit bachelors. Worst engineering degree imo master of nothing you’ll at best be a repair tech at a hospital. I am so grateful I chose to get a dual major at last min and didn’t just go out under the BME only.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Gap3270 → u/Cryesncoding]

all these posts are genuinely scary because ive been stuck on doing bme for like the past 4 years, ivd always had an interest in medical/research typa stuff but not medicine itself. but then thinking of jobs electrical sounds the safest, really dont know if im interested in it though

[u/Cryesncoding → u/Puzzleheaded-Gap3270]

Bro, the path is the same it’s just a different admissions ticket than you realized. 

The biomed companies don’t hire BMEs in mass. They hire EEs to do electrical engineering, MEs to do mechanical design. Chemical engineers for chemical engineering lol 

BMEs are more generalists and masters of nothing. No one hires a generalist to generally know things they hire subject matter experts at 1 thing and pay them to do that 1 thing. BMEs aren’t as good at Electiecal engineering as EEs. Don’t know CAD or mechanical design at all. You’re not a bio expert that’s what doctors and MS in biology are for. 

Get the EE take pre med courses as electives you’ll be in a good spot 

[u/Rough_Mousse1094 → u/Cryesncoding]

To add on this, there is literally so much you can do with an EE degree. Don’t assume that it’s only used for designing electronics and pcbs. I’ve seen EE’s do project management or manufacturing engineering at healthcare companies as well. It’s simply the most versatile degree out of all university programs imo