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Maybe I haven’t noticed before but these abandoned cars are clogging up all the roads and nobody is towing them away?

Also, anyone know why they are abandoned in the first place?

thanks

I'm an EU student doing my master's in Biomedical Engineering in the Netherlands. For context: I'm an English-speaking graduate from a UK university, with a newly gained Bachelor's in Bioengineering (BEng) and basically no relevant experience. I tried to get a placement year during my degree but couldn't find one at all…

I have offers from two programs and I'm torn between them. Groningen (MDD - Medical Device Design) has a new 6-month guaranteed internship (30 credits) starting this year. University of Twente (IIVD - Imaging and In-Vitro Diagnostics) is apparently the strongest BME course in the Netherlands, but only has a 3-month guaranteed internship (15 credits), with a 45-credit thesis instead.

Worth noting: my undergrad project was heavily diagnostics-based, which fits Twente's IIVD track slightly better than Groningen's MDD track.

I like both options, and I do think Twente is the stronger course overall, but I'm wondering if the benefits of the better course are outweighed by the longer internship (6 months vs 3). Is that the right way to think about it?

Thoughts? Opinions? Experience?

Thank you for your knowledge 🙏❤️

I'm an EU student doing my master's in Biomedical Engineering in the Netherlands. For context: I'm an English-speaking graduate from a UK university, with a newly gained Bachelor's in Bioengineering (BEng) and basically no relevant experience. I tried to get a placement year during my degree but couldn't find one...

I have offers from two programs and I'm torn between them. Groningen (MDD - Medical Device Design) has a new 6-month guaranteed internship (30 credits) starting this year. University of Twente (IIVD - Imaging and In-Vitro Diagnostics) is apparently the strongest BME course in the Netherlands, but only has a 3-month guaranteed internship (15 credits), with a 45-credit thesis instead.

Worth noting: my undergrad project was heavily diagnostics-based, which fits Twente's IIVD track slightly better than Groningen's MDD track.

I like both options, and I do think Twente is the stronger course overall, but I'm wondering if the benefits of the better course are outweighed by the longer internship (6 months vs 3). Is that the right way to think about it?

Thoughts? Opinions? Experience?

Thank you for your knowledge 🙏❤️

I’m a bioengineering bachelors in engineering graduate and an EU citizen looking to go into industry rather than academia, and I’m not keen on doing a PhD honestly. If anything I’d sooner do an MBA down the line and move toward the business/management side. My background is a mix of both these fields, so I could genuinely see myself going either way, which is why I’m stuck.

Bigger picture, which field is the better bet in the EU if you want to stay in industry and get hired? Biomedical engineering (devices, regulatory, hands-on) or bioinformatics (coding, data, ML)? I’m weighing a Twente BME master’s against a VU/UvA bioinformatics one, but I’m really trying to figure out the field more than the specific programme.

For context, the BME one has a built-in internship for multiple months (up to 6). My main question is really about hireability: if you work in either field in the EU, how easy has it been to actually get hired and progress without a PhD?

Thanks for the help 🙂

Im an EU citizen coming by hopefully later this year. Any societies, social groups or other ways to help meet new people and integrate faster?

Thanks for the support 🫡