The Best Biomedical Engineering Colleges

Duke University

• The Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University grants both undergraduate and graduate level degrees. The graduate biomedical engineering program at Duke was ranked in the top five in the United States by the National Research Council. U.S. News & World Report ranked it in the top five graduate level biomedical engineering programs in 2010. Biomedical engineering is the second-largest graduate and seventh-largest undergraduate major at Duke. The campus is located in Durham, North Carolina inside what is known as the Research Triangle. Duke has major research programs in biomechanics, biomolecular and tissue engineering, electrobiology, and biomedical imaging.

  Duke University
  Pratt School of Engineering
  305 Teer Building
  Durham, NC 27708-0271
  919-684-3913
  duke.edu

University of Washington

• The College of Engineering at the University of Washington is located in Seattle. In 2010, U.S. News & World Report named this school the fifth-best graduate level biomedical engineering program in the United States. The department has 237 faculty members. Recent areas of research at this school include making composites for aerospace, combining nanoparticles for medical applications, and organic electronics. The college awarded its students over $8 million in scholarships in 2009. It has more than 4000 undergraduates and just over 1500 graduate students. The school's website claims that Kiplinger's rated it one the of best value colleges in the United States due to its low tuition rate. UW also promises to cover 100 percent of tuition for low-income Washington state residents.

  University of Washington
  College of Engineering
  371 Loew Hall, Box 352180
  Seattle, WA 98195-2180
  206-543-5929
  washington.edu

Johns Hopkins University

• According to U.S. News & World Report's 2010 ranking, the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University is the best graduate-level biomedical engineering program in the United States. The department has just over 400 undergraduates and about 200 graduate students, and 80 faculty members. This department is also the largest pre-clinical program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The school's website states that nine startup companies have resulted from its faculty research. Recent areas of research within this department range from medical imaging to cell and tissue engineering to systems neuroscience.

  Johns Hopkins University
  Whiting School of Engineering
  3400 N. Charles Street
  Baltimore, MD 21218
  410-516-8174
  jhu.edu