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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