3. 1 John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) 2 Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) 3 Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) 4 University of California (La Jolla, California) 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

4. The typical biomedical engineers salary is about $81,950. On the low end of the spectrum, some biomedical engineers earned $79,650. The elite biomedical engineers’ salaries top off at about $92,870 per year.

5. There are 14,000 biomedical engineers employed nationwide. Most of them are employed in medical equipment and supplies manufacturing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects to see a 21%, or 3,000 increase for biomedical engineers through 2016.

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