Biomedical Engineering / Bioengineering
Ranked in 2017, part of Best Engineering Schools
Biomedical engineers and bioengineers apply their knowledge of life sciences and technology to solve problems that affect life on Earth. These are the top engineering schools for graduate biomedical / bioengineering degrees. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.
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Save | Rank | School name | Score | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment | Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) (new test) | Engineering school research expenditures (2016 fiscal year) | |||||
#1Tie | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD | 4.6 | $50,410 per year (full-time) | 3,692 | 166 | $121,140,156 | ||||||
#1Tie | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 4.6 | $48,140 per year (full-time) | 3,124 | 166 | $448,324,000 | ||||||
#3Tie | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | 4.4 | $13,452 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,872 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 8,850 | 164 | $223,060,000 | ||||||
#3Tie | Stanford University Stanford, CA | 4.4 | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 3,675 | 167 | $201,159,834 | ||||||
#3Tie | University of California—San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA | 4.4 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,635 | 166 | $168,012,410 | ||||||
#6Tie | Duke University (Pratt) Durham, NC | 4.3 | $52,925 per year (full-time) | 1,093 | 164 | $97,205,000 | ||||||
#6Tie | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA | 4.3 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,076 | 165 | $208,862,000 | ||||||
#8 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | 4.2 | $32,286 per year (full-time) | 1,674 | 165 | $103,539,325 | ||||||
#9 | Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX | 4.0 | $43,220 per year (full-time) | 949 | 166 | $69,614,390 | ||||||
#10Tie | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | 3.9 | $24,444 per year (in-state, full-time); $45,974 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,570 | 166 | $295,646,000 | ||||||
#10Tie | University of Washington Seattle, WA | 3.9 | $16,917 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,153 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,416 | 163 | $151,225,559 | ||||||
#12Tie | Boston University Boston, MA | 3.8 | $49,176 per year (full-time) | 1,121 | 164 | $95,618,671 | ||||||
#12Tie | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY | 3.8 | $44,592 per year (full-time) | 3,350 | 167 | $146,963,000 | ||||||
#12Tie | Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL | 3.8 | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 2,088 | 166 | $114,089,862 | ||||||
#12Tie | University of Pittsburgh (Swanson) Pittsburgh, PA | 3.8 | $24,962 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,222 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,029 | 162 | $88,203,781 | ||||||
#12Tie | Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO | 3.8 | $48,950 per year (full-time) | 1,256 | 165 | $24,560,000 | ||||||
#17 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 3.7 | $29,500 per year (full-time) | 2,069 | 165 | $118,254,750 | ||||||
#18Tie | Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH | 3.6 | $42,576 per year (full-time) | 702 | 164 | $42,145,000 | ||||||
#18Tie | University of Texas—Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX | 3.6 | $9,850 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,030 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,362 | 165 | $204,333,510 | ||||||
#20Tie | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | 3.5 | $45,846 per year (full-time) | 543 | 169 | $105,985,025 | ||||||
#20Tie | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN | 3.5 | $16,240 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,120 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,923 | 164 | $122,194,826 | ||||||
#22Tie | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | 3.4 | $43,296 per year (full-time) | 478 | 166 | $50,054,491 | ||||||
#22Tie | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL | 3.4 | $17,834 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,628 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,806 | 166 | $227,584,892 | ||||||
#22Tie | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | 3.4 | $11,942 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,269 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,821 | 164 | $141,939,724 | ||||||
#25Tie | Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN | 3.3 | $10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,744 | 164 | $259,111,348 |