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BME Undergraduate Placements


Click on the links below for information about the the post-graduation
activities of our Bachelor of Engineering graduates.

Placement as of May 1
Medical Schools, Graduate Schools, and Employers
Highest Degrees Held by Alumni
Occupations of Alumni

 Placement of Vanderbilt BME Graduates as of May 1 Each Year 

Number of Degrees

‘02

‘03

‘04

‘05

‘06

 

 

 

 

 

 

BE BME

51

41

55

75

76

BE BME/EE

5

7

5

6

2

BE BME/ChE

2

0

0

0

0

Total degrees

58

48

60

81

78

% Medical School

 

 

 

 

 

Accepted

12%

24%

20%

15%

28%

Waiting

4%

 

3%

 

5%

 

 

 

 

 

 

% Graduate School       

 

 

 

 

 

Accepted

33%

24%

22%

24%

14%

Waiting

4%

2%

8%

 

5%

 

 

 

 

 

 

% Jobs

 

 

 

 

 

Offer

16%

19%

12%

29%

14%

Interviewing

27%

26%

13%

6%

15%

 % Other

 

 

 

9%

5%

 % No Data

4%

5%

22%

17%

14%

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL PLACEMENT

61%

67%

54%

77%

61%

TOTAL AWAITING PLACEMENT

35%

28%

24%

6%

25%

   

 

 

 

 

 

UNKNOWN

4%

5%

22%

17%

14%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 * Administrative errors led to loss of a large number of surveys (about 40%) in 2001. 
Available results are normalized to the number of survey replies.

Vanderbilt Bachelor of Engineering in BME graduates have gone on to the
following medical schools, graduate schools, and employers.

Medical Schools

U. Alabama (Birmingham), U. Tennessee (Memphis), Vanderbilt, Florida, U.Kentucky, U. Kansas, Johns Hopkins, Emory, Baylor, Indiana, East Tennessee State U., Ohio State U., TX A&M, Illinois, Louisiana State U., Mississippi, Northwestern, Minnesota, Louisville, U. Washington, U.GA, Case-Western Reserve Univ., Duke, St. Louis U., U. Texas (Galveston)

Graduate Schools

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Duke U., Case Western Reserve U., Vanderbilt, Washington U., U. Virginia, Northwestern, Emory, U. Tennessee (Knoxville), U. Texas (Austin), Rice, Georgia Tech, Purdue, Drexel, Clemson, U. Alabama (Huntsville), Illinois, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U. Washington, U. Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, U. Tennessee (Memphis), Michigan, U. Alabama (Birmingham), Texas A&M, U. Texas Southwestern, Bowman-Gray, Tulane, Stanford, Columbia, U. California (San Diego), U. Florida.

Jobs

DuPont, Food & Drug Administration, Rockwell Int'l., TRW, Eli Lilly, Parke-Davis, IBM, Proctor & Gamble, Picker, Systematics, NCR, General Motors, Teledyne Brown, Krug Life Sciences, Health Care Resources Management, Health Care Management, Inc., Columbia-HCA, Guidant Corp, York Int’l, National Instruments, Cytometry Associates, Abbott Labs, Kimberly-Clark, Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis), Anderson Consulting, Ernst and Young, Price-Waterhouse, Nortel, Lockheed-Martin, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, Alcoa, TennecoGas, COBE Labs, Westinghouse, Oak Ridge Nat'l. Labs, ICS Management, Charlotte Orthopaedic Clinic, Marlowe Surgical Tech., Scottish Rite Hospital (Atlanta).  

 

Figure 1.  Highest degrees held by BME BE alumni from the classes of 1996-2000
who responded to an alumni survey.

 

Figure 2.  Occupations reported by BME BE alumni from the classes of
1996-2000 who responded to an alumni survey.

updated 11/2006

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