Job opportunities are most commonly found in fields such as cellular, tissue, genetic, clinical, and rehabilitation engineering. Additionally, there are opportunities within the fields of bioinstrumentation, biomaterials, biomechanics, drug design and delivery, medical imaging, orthopedic surgery, pharmaceuticals and systems physiology.
As an undergraduate biomedical engineering major at The University of Texas at Austin, you will have the opportunity to learn about each area and discover the field you are most passionate about. Roughly one-third of graduates from the undergraduate biomedical engineering program go into industry, one-third go to medical school, and one-third go to graduate school or professional degree program in fields such as law, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine.
Biomedical engineering students have access to Career Services, which provide services and resources for students, including individual career advising, resume review, access to jobs, internships and employers participating in on-campus recruiting.
Recruiters and students also have access to HireTexas: AccessUT, a free online job search website at The University of Texas at Austin.
Advancing Our Quality of Life
Biomedical engineers use their engineering and science backgrounds to design the next generation of systems and treatments that will advance the quality of life for patients. They leave an impact through the creation of medical devices that detect and treat disease, the invention of materials that can be used to treat illness in the body, and by designing complex computer models to develop the next generation of disease-fighting drugs.
Biomedical engineers are responsible for the creation of artificial organs, automated patient monitoring, blood chemistry sensors, advanced therapeutic and surgical devices, application of expert systems and artificial intelligence to clinical decision making, design of optimal clinical laboratories, medical imaging systems, computer modeling of physiological systems, biomaterials design, and biomechanics for injury and wound healing, among many others.
Biomedical engineers respond to societal needs and provide solutions to engineer a healthier world.
