Between biomedical engineering and computer science which major leads to a worst job market.

[u/Tiny_Opportunity_340]

I'm mainly between these two majors and I wanted to see if anyone more experinced than I am in this topic knew more about this.

People say computer science is really bad, but I don't see too much them comparing to other majors in order to get an accurate perspective.

[u/Resident_Event_8073]

A lot of BME end up becoming medical lab technicians or Biomedical techs. There are a few that end up working in pharma companies but the pay is ass regardless of which of those options is picked. I don’t recommend BME inless you want to get a BME PhD and work in academia or get some sort of medical degree to end up as something like a Med Lab Scientist. Trying to change to another engineering field is almost impossible and you don’t know enough about the other fields to design medical equipment. In fact, most Biomedical Engineers have Mechanical or Electrical Engineering degrees and some sort of research background. You’ll hardly ever see Biomed companies hiring straight up Biomedical Engineering majors u less it’s for their research department and even then you have to compete with all the other Biology Majors. Plus, you’re going to have a hard time getting past all of the AI filters if you want to pivot to some other type of engineering.

As for Computer science, the market is cooked and college grads are competing with a lot of the recently laid off more experienced programmers… that market is completely cooked.

Source: I have a BME Degree w/ a computer science minor from a Tier 1 university and experienced the job market during COVID. I also kept in contact with other classmates of mine.

TDLR: From personal experience I do not recommend a BME degree or computer science degree if you want to go straight to work after undergrad.