The Real World: BME graduates reflect on whether universities are providing adequate preparation for a career in industry.
The Real World: BME graduates reflect on whether universities are providing adequate preparation for a career in industry.
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现实世界：BME 毕业生反思大学是否为工业职业生涯提供充分的准备。
作者：
Jennifer Berglund
让S面对现实吧：在美国，大学文凭已今非昔比。如今，46%的应届大学毕业生认为自己就业不足，从事的工作不需要大学文凭--这些文凭已经让许多大学毕业生和他们的家人损失了数十万美元的学生贷款，而且没有工作和工资来偿还这些贷款。但工程专业的学生被认为是异类。工程学这个领域被广泛认为是学生在大学毕业后立即寻找高薪工作的最有利可图的学术途径之一。美国劳工统计局表示，在45个收入最高、只需要S学士学位的职业中，近40%是工程专业的。所有生物医学工程师的工资，无论是不是初级的，都是最高的，工资中位数为86,960美元。而大学的工程系也不会羞于宣传这些数字：德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的生物医学工程系在其网页上宣布，选择生物医学工程专业毕业打开了通往不断增长的就业机会的大门。引用了72%的十年就业增长预测。波士顿大学？S节目引用《美国新闻与世界报道》？S声称北京梅隆是全国？S增长最快的职业。
Let?s face it: In the United States, a college degree isn?t what it used to be. These days, 46% of recent college graduates consider themselves underemployed and in jobs that do not require their college degrees?degrees that have already cost many of these grads and their families hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans, with no promise of a job and salary to pay those loans back. But engineering majors are said to be outliers. Engineering as a field is widely considered one of, if not the most, lucrative academic paths for students seeking well-paid employment immediately following college. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that nearly 40% of the 45 most highly paid professions that require only a bachelor?s degree are in engineering. Salaries for all biomedical engineers, entry level or not, are among the highest, with a median pay of US$86,960. And engineering departments at colleges are not shy to advertise these numbers: the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Texas, Austin, declares on its Web page that, ?electing to graduate with a major in biomedical engineering opens the door to an ever-growing amount of job opportunities,? citing a 72%, ten-year job growth forecast. Boston University?s program cites U.S. News and World Report?s claim that BME is the country?s fastest-growing occupation.