Professional School
The biomedical science major serves as an excellent background for many of the health related professional degrees, including the following:
- Medicine
- Dentistry
- Law
- Osteopathic Medicine
- Physician Assistant
- Pharmacy
- Physical Therapy
- Graduate School
- Veterinary Medicine
- Nurse Practitioner
- Occupational Therapy
- Optometry
- Podiatry
- Chiropractic Medicine
Graduate School
Many students use the biomedical sciences major to advance to graduate programs in areas, including the following:
- Biology
- Bioinformatics
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Community Medicine
- Counseling
- Environmental Management
- Exercise Physiology
- Forensic Science
- Genetic Counseling
- Health Behavior
- Health Care Administration
- Nutrition
- Neuroscience
- Perfusion Science
- Public Health
- Education
- Zoology
Areas in Pharmaceutical Industry and Biotechnology Where our Graduates are employed:
- Research and Design
- Marketing
- Sales
- Quality Assurance
- Environmental Health & Safety
- Customer Service/Support
Some Job Titles of Positions our Graduates have taken:
- Air-pollution analyst
- Analytic chemist
- Anatomist
- Animal ecologist
- Animal scientist
- Anatomical pathology tech
- Aerosol development manager
- Assayer
- Associate chemist
- Biochemist
- Biological photographer
- Biologist
- Biomedical engineer
- Biophysicist
- Botanist
- Case manager
- Chemical analyst
- Chemical information specialist
- Chemical safety officer
- Chemical technologist
- Chemist
- Chiropractor
- Clinic manager
- Clinical
- Biochemist
- Clinical embryologist
- Clinical cytogeneticist
- Clinical immunologist
- Clinical microbiologist
- Clinical scientist in histocompatibility and immunogenetics
- Clinical tech
- Consumer protection specialist
- Curator
- Curator/medical museum
- Curator/ zoological museum
- Cytologist
- Cytoscreener
- Cytotechnologist
- Dentist
- Dietitian
- Dietitian/researcher
- Editor (scientific and technical publications)
- Entomologist
- Environmental analyst
- Environmental scientist
- Exercise therapist
- Food and drug analyst
- Food-and-drugs inspector
- Forensic scientist
- Forensic lab analyst
- Forensic pathologist
- Geneticist
- Geriatric rehabilitator
- Health administrator
- Health care lobbyist
- Health policy researcher
- Hematologist
- Histopathologist
- Hospital administrator
- Hydrologist
- Industrial hygienist
- Information analyst
- Information scientist
- Insurance case reviewer
- Insurance claims adjustor
- Laboratory assistant
- Laboratory analyst
- Lab coordinator
- Laboratory tech
- Lawyer
- Long term care administrator
- Marine biologist
- Medical illustrator
- Medical librarian
- Medical technologist
- Medical Device Analyst
- Medical Device Sales Person
- Methods development chemist
- Microbiologist
- Medical illustrator
- Medical lab scientific officer
- Medical librarian
- Medical technologist
- Medical lab assistant
- Medical legal assistant
- Microbiologist
- Molecular geneticist
- Museum tech
- Mycologist
- Nematologist
- Nuclear medical technologist
- Occupational health and safety inspector
- Occupational hygienist
- Occupational Therapist
- Oceanographer
- Optometrist
- Organic mass spectrometrist
- Orthopaedists
- Orthotists
- Osteopath
- Paint formulation chemist
- Paper product developer
- Parasitologist
- Pathologist
- Pathologist Assistant
- Pedorthists
- Perfusion Scientist
- Pharmaceutical detailer
- Pharmaceutical salesperson
- Pharmacologist
- Phlebotomist
- Physical therapist
- Physician
- Physician Assistant
- Physiatrists
- Plant pathologist
- Plant physiologist
- Podiatrist
- Pollution controller
- Process development chemist
- Production chemist
- Product tester
- Prosthetists
- Pulp and paper chemist
- Psychologist
- Public health educator
- Quality assurance chemist
- Quality assurance
- Quality control chemist
- Research assistant
- Safety inspector
- Safety manager
- Sales rep. (chemicals and drugs)
- Sanitarian
- Scientist in hemostasis and thrombosis
- Social service counseling
- Social worker
- Soil scientist
- Soil tester
- Surgeons
- Teacher/college
- Teacher/high school
- Technical writer
- Technical sales representative
- Textile chemist
- Tissue and transplant coordinator
- Veterinarian/Lab animal care
- Water quality analyst/technician
- Writer/scientific, technical
- Zoologist
Contact Biomedical Sciences
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Health Sciences
Schroeder Complex, 426
P.O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
Phone: (414) 288-7251
Fax: (414) 288-6564
