Artaurian

Will employers look down on you for not having a job and/related work experience in college and graduate school? Will this hurt you in getting a job related to your major? Why or why not? If someone is paying for your school and you don't need the money is it better to focus on school to perform better and not get distracted from your long term educational goals?

I had to abbreviate some things in the question because it wouldn't fit. Biomedical eng. means biomedical engineering, Bach. degree is bachelor's degree, bio is biology, and mast. degree is master's degree.

Basically would someone be at a disadvantage or less likely at getting a job in biomedical engineering with a bachelors in biology and master's in biomedical engineering instead of having both degrees in an engineering field? Would not having the undergraduate bachelors in engineering hurt that person's chances? The area of biomedical engineering I'm talking about is tissue engineering and/or biomaterials. I tried asking on more related websites relevant to my question but haven't gotten a response and I believe professor responses in that field could be bias.

I heard they do this even though there are plenty more qualified people they can accept and plenty more space for them. Isn't this completely wrong to be rejecting those who could have been accepted for the sake of higher wages, especially in a profession that is centered around helping others? Is this true? Is there evidence of this? What should be done to stop this?