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Dolla dolla bills, y'all. As in, you'll have some. Lots, even. Go call up one of your friends that went to a liberal arts school and see how they're doing. Yeah, compared to a lot of college grads, you'll be rolling in cash.

Not literally, of course. That would be weird, unless it was at one of those cash-rolling parties that the internet assures us are a thing.

The barrier to this is that high unemployment rate for this major. Where does that come from? Unfortunately, it comes from people like you. Enough college-bound people learned that biomedical engineering is where the money lives, and all of a sudden, the market is glutted. That means full. Use that next Thanksgiving and freak everybody out.

The unemployment figure is prospected to fall, based on some depressing news. Ever hear of the Baby Boomers? Right, who hasn't. Well, they're getting older every year. They can't stop. It's an affliction.

While they're getting older, they need stuff like pacemakers, hip replacements, glasses, 401Ks...those first two things are where biomedical engineers come in. More demand for those things, more employment opportunities.

Half of all Biomedical Engineers are happy with their careers, and half get graduate degrees. That's probably not perfectly linked, but there is some correlation. The higher the degree, the more earning potential.

And hey, you have a side bonus of knowing you've improved the lives of a lot of people.

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