Founded in 1851, Northwestern University is a private university with two Illinois campuses: a 240-acre campus in Evanston and a 25-acre campus in Chicago. Northwestern's Biomedical Engineering Department offers both an undergraduate bachelor's degree program and a master's degree program, as well as a combined bachelor's/master's program. Northwestern's biomedical engineering programs provide students with quantitative biomedical training and emphasize methods of applying engineering techniques to analyzing biological systems. Students have a choice of five program specializations to prepare them for specific opportunities in industry: electronic instrumentation, biomechanics and rehabilitation, transport processes and tissue engineering, biological materials and biotechnology, and biomedical signals and imaging.
Northwestern University
633 Clark Street
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-3741
www.northwestern.edu
Founded in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a public university with an enrollment of nearly 28,000 undergraduate students and over 9,000 graduate students. Illinois offers a Bachelor of Science degree in bioengineering. Program coursework integrates biology and engineering in areas such as biomechanics, modeling of human physiology, bioinstrumentation and tissue engineering. During their third year, bioengineering students choose from elective tracks that include biomechanics, cell and tissue engineering, imaging and sensing, and therapeutic engineering. During their senior year, students take a yearlong course in which they apply engineering fundaments to biological problems that have been submitted by faculty, clinicians and industrial firms.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
601 East John Street
Champaign, IL 61820-5711
(217) 333-1000
www.illinois.edu
The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is a private, Ph.D.-granting research university with five campuses in the Chicago area. IIT has an undergraduate enrollment of over 2,300 undergraduate students and a total enrollment of 7,400 students. IIT's Department of Biomedical Engineering offers both a bachelor of science undergraduate program and a Ph.D. program. Both programs allow students to specialize in their choice of three areas: cell and tissue engineering, medical imaging and neural engineering. The programs draw on the fields of life science, physical science, medicine and engineering, and prepare students for leadership positions in industry, medicine and research.
Illinois Institute of Technology
3300 South Federal Street
Chicago, IL 60616
(312) 567-3000
http://www.iit.edu/