Top Biomedical Engineering Graduate Schools

Johns Hopkins University

• The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University offers master's, doctoral degrees and post-doctoral fellowships. In its 2010 ranking, U.S. News & World Report named this school top biomedical engineering program in the United States. The campus is located in Baltimore, Maryland. The department has 35 primary faculty and 45 adjunct or part-time professors. Areas of research at Johns Hopkins include medical imaging, cardiovascular systems, systems neuroscience and tissue engineering. The school's website claims nine startup companies have resulted from faculty research.

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

Georgia Institute of Technology

• The biomedical engineering program Georgia Tech results in a Ph.D. degree. Admission requirements for admittance to this school are: a bachelor's degree in engineering or life sciences, one year of calculus based physics and one semester of organic chemistry. The school offers four areas of research concentration. These are biomaterials and regenerative medicine, cardiovascular biology and biomechanics, cell and biomolecular engineering, integrative biosystems, or neuroengineering. U.S. News and World Report named this school's biomedical program second in the United States for 2010. The campus is located in Atlanta, Georgia.

  Georgia Institute of Technology
  College of Engineering
  225 North Avenue
  Atlanta, Ga. 30332-0360
  404-894-1610
  gatech.edu

University of California San Diego

• The bioengineering program was founded at University of California, San Diego in 1966 through a partnership between the School of Medicine and the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Current degrees are issued through a cooperative arrangement between the School of Engineering and the School of Medicine. This school offers both bachelor's and graduate level degree programs. In 2010, U.S. News & World Report ranked San Diego's biomedical program third in the United States. Students applying to this school can expect to research topics such as bioengineering analysis of blood flow, kinetics of growth, microvascular perfusing and exchange, and biomechanical properties of tissues.

  University of California--San Diego
  Jacobs School of Engineering
  9500 Gilman Drive
  La Jolla, Calif. 92093-0403
  858-534-3555
  ucsd.edu