Working in Baltimore
Employment Opportunities
The Baltimore-Washington Metro area is a national force in the health & life sciences sector, supported by its unique access to federal institutions, leading research universities, and scientific non-profits. In their 2022 report, the real estate and investment firm CBRE identified and analyzed the top 25 domestic markets for life sciences talent and ranked Washington DC/Baltimore in second place, just behind Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts and ahead of the San Francisco Bay Area.
The DC/Baltimore metro area boasts the nation’s highest ratio of workers employed in professional, scientific and technical services at 15.4%. Home to the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and other federal offices, the headquarters of scientific societies and non-profits, and a number of biomedical industries, there is a diversity of career paths open to our alumni in this area.
Academic Institutions
Government Institutions
Some examples include:
- Aberdeen Proving Ground
- National Institutes of Health
- Food and Drug Administration
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Veterans Affairs
Scientific Societies/Nonprofits
Some examples include:
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Society for Microbiology
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- FASEB
- HHMI/Janelia Research Campus
- Milken Institute
- Miltenyi Biotech
- Society for Neuroscience