00:00is a biomedical engineering major or
00:02biomedical engineering degree
00:04worth it that's what we're going to be
00:06talking about today and we are going to
00:08right into it what the heck is
00:10biomedical engineering so biomedical
00:13engineering is basically combining
00:15engineering with medical research and
00:18development and they do this in order to
00:20create new ways to treat and cure
00:22injuries and diseases now as somebody
00:25myself who works in healthcare i think
00:27biomedical engineering is super cool i
00:30think it would be really cool to be a
00:31cyborg that's half machine and half
00:33and so i hope that biomedical
00:35engineering blows up and we're able to
00:37integrate technology and machines into
00:40the body okay i'm kidding i'm kidding i
00:42don't want to actually be a cyborg
00:44but i think you get the idea i think
00:45it's really cool now with this degree
00:47you're going to have to have a firm
00:49grasp of engineering principles like
00:51mathematics and science
00:52but you're also going to combine that
00:54with a little bit of healthcare
00:55knowledge so you're going to be taking a
00:56lot of anatomy and physiology
00:58classes now because of the fact that
00:59you'll be making products that human
01:02quite literally be using not just
01:04physically but they might
01:05be inside of somebody's body you have to
01:07think of things from a little bit of a
01:09marketing perspective as well a lot of
01:12very weirded out by putting some sort of
01:14technology inside of their body
01:15and so you need to make things as
01:17ergonomic and pleasing as possible now
01:19around 7 400 people graduate with this
01:22degree every year so
01:23i'd say it's kind of mid-tier it's not
01:25extremely rare but it's also not a very
01:27common degree either now on these videos
01:29i like to break things down into four
01:31different sections and the first one
01:33we're going to be talking about is going
01:35salary or earning potential now this
01:37degree you'd expect to make around 67
01:39000 a year starting out and 116
01:42000 in mid-career pay you can compare
01:45low paying type of degree and you'll see
01:47that this is on the higher paying side
01:49as a biomedical engineer you'd make
01:53a year or 43 dollars an hour another
01:55career path you might go down is
01:56becoming a materials engineer and they
02:00000 a year and 44 dollars an hour now
02:02there are some related occupations that
02:04you might end up going down and i'll
02:06have some of those pop up on the screen
02:08now you can check those out you can
02:09pause the video if you want to and
02:11another thing to mention here is that
02:12engineers in general
02:13over a lifetime make really good money
02:16actually more than any other type of
02:17degree at around 3.5 million dollars
02:20compared to the average degree which is
02:222.4 million now keep in mind this is the
02:24latest census which would be the last 40
02:26years or so and so who knows what's
02:28going to happen in the next 40 years it
02:30could be engineering is the highest or
02:32maybe technology or something completely
02:34unrelated would take its place
02:36but overall that is a good sign and
02:38because of all these things i'm going to
02:39give this one a score of 9 out of 10
02:42when it comes to salary
02:43next we're going to be talking about
02:44satisfaction and this one is extremely
02:47subjective for one person it might be
02:49the most amazing degree the most amazing
02:51career ever and for another person it
02:54keep that in mind uh take this section
02:57with a grain of salt for you it might be
03:00put your own score in there with that
03:01being said i like to focus on
03:03meaning and job satisfaction because
03:05these are the two most subjective things
03:07that we can look up and measure on the
03:09internet so when it comes to meaning
03:11which is basically how much you think
03:13positively impacts the world pay scale
03:15shows that biomedical engineering is at
03:1872 percent you can compare that to ones
03:21high and low meaning scores and you'll
03:22see that it's definitely on the higher
03:25now if you get this degree and you
03:26actually end up becoming a biomedical
03:28engineer it gets even
03:30better they have a meaning score of 82
03:32percent and if you look at their job
03:34satisfaction it is 69
03:36and again you can compare that to one
03:38that has really high scores and one that
03:40has really low scores and you'll see
03:41that is on the higher side
03:43so if you are able to become a
03:45biomedical engineer you'll likely be
03:47very happy and satisfied with your job
03:50on top of that engineering majors in
03:52general tend to be degrees that people
03:54not regretting engineering is the third
03:56least regretted type of degree only
03:59of people regret it and the main reason
04:01is because some of the better jobs out
04:03are going to require an advanced degree
04:06like a master's or a doctorate with that
04:08being said like i mentioned before this
04:09is extremely subjective it could depend
04:11on the company you work for
04:13the particular career path you went down
04:15the industry that you end up working in
04:17where you live the people you work with
04:19there's so many different things that
04:21are going to influence how happy you are
04:23i think one of the reasons this one has
04:25such high job satisfaction and meaning
04:28is because you are very directly helping
04:31people so a lot of the time you're going
04:32to be designing devices
04:34that you think are going to literally
04:36save someone's life or maybe prolong
04:38their life or improve their quality of
04:40and so that can give you a lot of
04:42meaning a lot of health care degrees in
04:44general have high meaning scores and
04:46oftentimes they'll have good job
04:48satisfaction as well
04:50and i think that's the reason is because
04:51you're directly helping people
04:53there's a lot of other careers where you
04:54might be helping people but it's a
04:56indirect you don't necessarily get to
04:58see the fruits of your labors so with
05:00that being said i am going to give this
05:02one a score of 8.5 out of 10.
05:05it's one of the engineering degrees that
05:06has the highest meaning and job
05:10next we're going to be talking about
05:12demand and this is where this one
05:14doesn't do quite as well
05:16so when you look on bls you'll see that
05:18there's 21 000 jobs available right now
05:20and it's growing at 5 which is a little
05:24so that means over the next 10 years
05:25there's going to be 1 000 new jobs that
05:28remember what i talked about before
05:30there's around 7 000 people
05:32graduating every year so one of the big
05:35is that if you want to become a
05:36biomedical engineer you don't
05:38necessarily have to get a biomedical
05:42a lot of people who go down that career
05:44path get mechanical engineering degrees
05:46and then they just specialize and take
05:49in order to become biomedical engineers
05:51and on top of that if you get a
05:53mechanical engineering degree you've got
05:54a lot more flexibility there's so many
05:57other career paths you can go down
05:58so if your plans don't work out for
06:00whatever reason maybe you meet somebody
06:02and you decide that you're gonna
06:03sell everything and move somewhere so
06:06that you can marry them
06:07you have other options whereas if you
06:09get a biomedical engineering degree it's
06:11not going to be nearly as flexible you
06:13pigeonholing yourself somewhat now one
06:16career path you might end up going down
06:17is becoming a materials engineer and
06:20they have around twenty seven thousand
06:23and they're growing at two percent which
06:24is slower than average so that one is
06:26going to have a lot of the same problems
06:28now when it comes to unemployment in
06:30general of course you know things could
06:32be different here in 2020 there's not
06:34any good statistics out right now on the
06:36specific degrees but
06:38generally speaking stem degrees have
06:40favorable unemployment rates
06:42and engineering degrees are some of the
06:43best out of all the stem degrees
06:45now one little test i like to do is to
06:47look up biomedical engineering degree on
06:49monster.com and you'll see that around
06:54meaning there's around 2 700 jobs that
06:56have that specific keyword
06:58in their job description now again you
07:00can compare this to a really good one
07:02and a really bad one and you'll see that
07:03it's kind of on the lower side there's
07:06employers or hiring managers out there
07:08that are looking for people with this
07:11so again that is a little bit of a red
07:14flag but one thing i always like to say
07:15about engineering degrees is
07:17even if you don't end up working in the
07:19specific engineering field that you were
07:22i.e biomedical engineer a lot of the
07:25time they just tend to be a little more
07:27well respected than other types of
07:29so for instance you might give up on
07:31being a biomedical engineer and then you
07:33apply for a completely unrelated job
07:35in business for instance and you might
07:37end up getting it just because of the
07:38fact that engineering degrees tend to be
07:41you can see that when top companies are
07:43surveyed on what majors they're looking
07:46engineering degrees are consistently at
07:49the top so they're usually either the
07:50number one or number two type of degree
07:53but with that being said when you
07:54compare this one to a degree like
07:56mechanical engineering
07:57it's much more recognizable so a lot of
08:01people who have been hiring for a while
08:03likely would have hired somebody with a
08:05me or a mechanical engineering degree
08:07already so they'd be more comfortable
08:09hiring this person for a position that's
08:12whereas somebody who has a biomedical
08:15they're kind of a wild card they might
08:17be the first person that a hiring
08:19manager has ever seen
08:20that has had that major so it's almost
08:22like some of the more common engineering
08:24degrees have real estate
08:26within people's brains they're just more
08:28used to it and so therefore even though
08:30maybe you're just as good as a
08:32mechanical engineer they might not trust
08:35so with that being said when it comes to
08:37demand i'm going to have to give this
08:397 out of 10. next we're going to be
08:41talking about x factors and this is
08:43anything that's important that we didn't
08:45go over before so you remember before
08:47how i mentioned that over a lifetime
08:49engineering degrees in general tend to
08:51earn really good money so about 3.5
08:53million over a lifetime compared to 2.4
08:55million for all other types of degrees
08:57the lifetime earnings tend to be really
09:00high paying no matter what career you
09:02into so for instance i always like to
09:06on average it's only 2.4 million over a
09:08lifetime but if you get an engineering
09:10degree and then you become an
09:11artist you know arts and media you're
09:13gonna earn around three million dollars
09:16another great example is community
09:17service and legal so
09:19you know 1.8 million dollars for all
09:22and 3.2 million for engineering now
09:25again this could be correlation or
09:26causation it could just be the engineers
09:28are super smart and so they would have
09:30been successful no matter what they did
09:32or it could be that you know when you
09:33get a degree it's going to teach you
09:35certain skills that are going to help
09:37you later on in life so i think it
09:39probably has a little bit to do with
09:41now when it comes to these skills you're
09:42going to learn biomedical engineering is
09:44pretty specific and ziprecruiter
09:46does not have an index for that however
09:49mechanical engineering is going to be
09:51and they have it at 77 out of 100 and
09:54again you can compare that to a really
09:55good one and a really bad one and you'll
09:57see that it's on the higher side so the
09:59skills that you learn will likely be
10:00pretty valuable but you're gonna have to
10:02prove yourself to your employer it might
10:04be pretty difficult for you to get your
10:05first job especially if you don't end up
10:08becoming a biomedical engineer
10:10and again the reason for that is because
10:11they're just gonna be much more familiar
10:13with people who have mechanical
10:14engineering degrees and why take the
10:16chance when you know what you're getting
10:17when you hire someone with a different
10:19degree that's much more common
10:20with that being said it's very unlikely
10:23that any type of engineering degree
10:24especially biomedical engineer is ever
10:27automated so according to will robots
10:30take my job only a four percent chance
10:32and when it comes to outsourcing it's
10:34the same thing a lot of the time you're
10:35gonna have to be working
10:37in person and many engineering degrees
10:40the middleman between a technician and a
10:43scientist so you're someone who's going
10:46touching things in person and that's
10:48just never going to be able to be
10:49automated or outsourced
10:51part of it might be but definitely not
10:53all of it there's a lot of creative
10:54intelligence involved there and i just
10:56really doubt that it'll ever be
10:58fully outsourced or fully automated and
11:00if it is then pretty much everything is
11:02going to be by that point now another
11:04thing i always like to mention
11:05is that engineering is a great segue
11:07into entrepreneurship
11:08and the reason i say that is because
11:10it's the number one type of career that
11:12creates the most millionaires as well
11:14as billionaires i think the reason for
11:16that is because it basically just
11:17teaches you practical
11:18problem solving and so a lot of the time
11:20you're going to be working a few years
11:22you get some skills you get some
11:24and then you're going to recognize an
11:25opportunity where there's a problem that
11:28being solved and if you're able to solve
11:30that problem you know bring
11:31value to the market then there's a very
11:33good chance that you can become
11:35a millionaire but i always like to
11:36mention as well engineering's tough
11:38there's a really high dropout rate and
11:40there's a reason for that you know i
11:42have spent a lot of time around
11:43engineers and i'm telling you
11:45they're pretty much just studying all
11:46the time now with this one
11:48i think it's really a dark horse
11:51it might not necessarily be really good
11:55and the reason for that is because a lot
11:57of the time the same jobs that you could
11:59get with a biomedical engineering degree
12:02with a mechanical engineering degree and
12:04then you'd also have a lot more
12:05flexibility but with that being said
12:06this one is a dark horse candidate in my
12:1010 or 15 years from now this might be a
12:13i see a lot of advancement that's going
12:15to be made in the near future when it
12:17comes to biomedical engineering
12:19putting technology in humans and using
12:22technology in order to
12:24cure people or treat people that have
12:26different diseases or
12:27injuries it could be 10 years from now
12:2920 years from now 30 years from now but
12:31i think it's inevitable
12:33that this is going to be an industry
12:34that really takes off so overall i am
12:37going to give this one a
12:389 out of 10 when it comes to x factor
12:40and i'm fully acknowledging that i could
12:42be wrong on that prediction
12:43maybe it doesn't happen for another 60
12:45or 80 years so some of the pros here
12:47are the salaries great you know most
12:49engineering degrees are going to have a
12:52has a high meaning score and the job
12:54satisfaction is good and then another
12:55pro is that it's just
12:56cool i mean i i don't know maybe it's
12:58just me but i think biomedical
13:00engineering is really cool
13:01some cons here is that some of the
13:03careers you might get into can be done
13:05by other degrees that are much more
13:07common like mechanical engineering
13:09some of the companies might not be
13:10comfortable hiring someone with just a
13:12bachelor's you might want to get a
13:14master's or a doctorate depending on the
13:15position that you're going for
13:17it's also a relatively rare degree and
13:19so you might end up kind of pigeonholing
13:21yourself a little bit
13:22into a particular skill set it's not
13:24necessarily as flexible as some of the
13:27maybe it is as flexible it's just not
13:31as flexible if that makes any sense so
13:33the overall score here is going to be an
13:368.375 out of 10. this can be a
13:39very good one for the right person as
13:42always make sure you do your research on
13:43this make sure you plan it out
13:45do your due diligence you know figure
13:47out what career you're going for
13:48talk to people who are in that career
13:50and make sure you know exactly what
13:51you're getting yourself
13:52into if you want help doing research on
13:54different degrees and you don't want to
13:56wait for me to make a video about it
13:57check out my college degree ranker down
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