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CIP 14.0501 Engineering

Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering

IPEDS Completions, US Department of Education · 2025

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Total graduates

14,349

2025 · 238 schools

International share

16.9%

2,421 international students

Bachelor's degrees

8,891

6.6% international

Master's degrees

3,971

33.8% international

Overview

Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from biology, engineering, and medicine to develop innovative solutions for healthcare challenges. This profession focuses on designing and creating medical devices, diagnostic equipment, artificial organs, and biocompatible materials, as well as improving existing healthcare technologies.

Students in this field learn about the human body, biological systems, and the engineering principles that can be applied to solve medical problems. The curriculum often includes courses in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and specialized engineering topics like fluid dynamics and materials science. Additionally, students may engage in hands-on laboratory work, research projects, and internships to gain practical experience.

Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering play a crucial role in advancing healthcare by improving patient outcomes through technological innovation. This includes the development of advanced imaging techniques, regenerative medicine, and personalized medicine approaches that tailor treatments to individual patients. Graduates of this program can find career opportunities in various sectors, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and research institutions.

Moreover, the field is continually evolving with advancements in areas such as nanotechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence, which are increasingly being integrated into medical applications. As a result, bioengineers and biomedical engineers are in high demand, making this an exciting and rewarding career path for those interested in making a difference in people's lives through science and technology.

Graduates by year

Graduates by degree level (first and second majors)

AssociateBachelor'sMaster'sDoctoral

From 2002 to 2025, graduates grew 505% and the international share went from 11.4% to 16.9%.

International share (%)
Graduates by group, 2025
White
41.4%
Asian
19.7%
Hispanic
10.4%
Black
4.2%
Other
7.5%
Intl.
16.9%

Colleges that award this degree

In 2025, 238 schools awarded this degree as a first major. The table lists those in the 2027 U.S. News National or Liberal Arts rankings, plus the unranked schools with the most graduates.

RankSchoolStateGraduatesInternational
#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts 89 9
#3 Harvard University Massachusetts 21 1
#4 Yale University Connecticut 78 30
#5 California Institute of Technology California 35 16
#5 Stanford University California 94 23
#7 University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 246 104
#8 Duke University North Carolina 214 78
#9 Northwestern University Illinois 118 24
#9 Johns Hopkins University Maryland 415 146
#12 Dartmouth College New Hampshire 16 3
#12 Columbia University in the City of New York New York 193 61
#14 Cornell University New York 182 51
#14 Carnegie Mellon University Pennsylvania 86 56
#16 Washington University in St Louis Missouri 148 36
#16 Brown University Rhode Island 65 21
#16 Vanderbilt University Tennessee 65 3
#16 Rice University Texas 110 27
#20 University of California-Berkeley California 223 50
#20 University of California-Los Angeles California 139 36
#20 University of Notre Dame Indiana 9 5
#23 Emory University Georgia 48 12
#25 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Michigan 306 45
#26 University of Virginia-Main Campus Virginia 144 8
#27 University of Southern California California 134 34
#27 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill North Carolina 199 10
#29 University of California-San Diego California 320 115
#29 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Georgia 487 76
#31 Tufts University Massachusetts 92 20
#31 New York University New York 33 19
#34 University of California-Davis California 107 13
#34 University of California-Irvine California 180 28
#34 University of Florida Florida 156 17
#34 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Illinois 160 31
#34 Boston University Massachusetts 255 45
#34 Wake Forest University North Carolina 19 3
#34 The University of Texas at Austin Texas 195 12
#34 University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin 178 17
#44 University of California-Santa Barbara California 2 0
#44 Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Jersey 128 10
#44 Case Western Reserve University Ohio 141 34
#44 Ohio State University-Main Campus Ohio 159 14
#44 Lehigh University Pennsylvania 46 10
#49 University of Maryland-College Park Maryland 121 7
#49 University of Rochester New York 102 38
#49 University of Washington-Seattle Campus Washington 164 31
#52 University of Georgia Georgia 4 0
#52 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Virginia 104 2
#55 Santa Clara University California 36 1
#55 University of Miami Florida 74 10
#55 The Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania 161 29
#55 Purdue University-Main Campus Indiana 278 35
#59 George Washington University D.C. 45 5
#59 Florida State University Florida 55 8
#59 Tulane University of Louisiana Louisiana 30 5
#59 University of Massachusetts-Amherst Massachusetts 93 4
#59 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minnesota 159 17
#59 Stevens Institute of Technology New Jersey 85 8
#59 Stony Brook University New York 80 13
#59 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pennsylvania 160 21
#59 Texas A & M University-College Station Texas 200 19
#69 Michigan State University Michigan 7 3
#69 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New York 83 7
#69 University of California-Merced California 25 0
#72 Syracuse University New York 35 3
#73 University of Connecticut Connecticut 112 15
#73 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Massachusetts 163 5
#73 Binghamton University New York 106 8
#73 North Carolina State University at Raleigh North Carolina 202 13
#80 University of California-Riverside California 109 9
#80 Drexel University Pennsylvania 143 25
#80 Clemson University South Carolina 159 6
#85 University of Delaware Delaware 60 7
#85 New Jersey Institute of Technology New Jersey 119 12
#85 University at Buffalo New York 91 24
#90 Baylor University Texas 2 0
#90 Marquette University Wisconsin 51 4
#95 University of Illinois at Chicago Illinois 86 18
#95 University of Missouri-Columbia Missouri 41 3
#95 Rochester Institute of Technology New York 51 4
#100 Florida International University Florida 79 16
#100 University of South Florida-Main Campus Florida 64 30
#100 University of Iowa Iowa 88 4
#100 Saint Louis University Missouri 28 5
#109 University of California-Santa Cruz California 2 0
#109 Loyola Marymount University California 12 0
#109 University of Colorado Boulder Colorado 96 5
#109 Fairfield University Connecticut 13 0
#109 University of New Hampshire-Main Campus New Hampshire 8 0
#109 Temple University Pennsylvania 49 9
#109 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville Tennessee 73 3
#116 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Oklahoma 64 6
#116 University of Oregon Oregon 7 1
#121 Arizona State University-Tempe Arizona 206 30
#121 University of Arizona Arizona 67 7
#121 University of the Pacific California 11 2
#121 University of Denver Colorado 3 1
#121 University of Central Florida Florida 14 4
#121 Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois 52 19
#121 Loyola University Chicago Illinois 6 0
#121 University of Dayton Ohio 4 1
#121 University of South Carolina-Columbia South Carolina 58 4
#121 The University of Texas at Dallas Texas 139 25
#121 George Mason University Virginia 72 11
#133 Miami University-Oxford Ohio 47 3
#133 University of Vermont Vermont 49 2
#137 University of Alabama at Birmingham Alabama 79 4
#137 California State University--Long Beach California 58 2
#137 San Diego State University California 1 0
#137 San Jose State University California 97 7
#137 University of Houston Texas 81 25
#148 Catholic University of America D.C. 26 11
#148 Mercer University Georgia 9 0
#148 University of Kansas Kansas 13 3
#148 University of Kentucky Kentucky 38 3
#148 University of Massachusetts-Lowell Massachusetts 73 9
#148 University of Rhode Island Rhode Island 24 0
#156 Florida A&M University Florida 3 0
#156 Kansas State University Kansas 19 0
#156 CUNY--City College New York 38 10
#156 Oregon State University Oregon 46 4
#156 University of Portland Oregon 1 0
#156 Duquesne University Pennsylvania 23 1
#156 Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia 80 4
#169 Colorado State University-Fort Collins Colorado 77 3
#169 Michigan Technological University Michigan 69 8
#169 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nebraska 1 0
#179 University of Louisville Kentucky 42 8
#179 University of Mississippi Mississippi 42 1
#179 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Ohio 96 8
#179 University of Utah Utah 114 8
#186 Wayne State University Michigan 57 4
#186 Texas Tech University Texas 7 1
#191 University of Arkansas Arkansas 61 3
#191 Florida Atlantic University Florida 20 6
#191 Rowan University New Jersey 50 4
#191 Hofstra University New York 10 1
#191 Washington State University Washington 21 1
#202 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Louisiana 58 2
#202 East Carolina University North Carolina 4 0
#202 Ohio University-Main Campus Ohio 1 0
#208 Mississippi State University Mississippi 58 2
#208 University of North Texas Texas 102 46
#219 Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis Indiana 2 0
#219 University of Nevada-Reno Nevada 31 2
#219 New York Institute of Technology New York 7 1
#219 North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina 44 0
#219 Gannon University Pennsylvania 23 12
#227 University of Michigan-Dearborn Michigan 27 3
#227 University of North Dakota North Dakota 21 10
#227 West Chester University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 15 1
#227 University of Texas-San Antonio Texas 77 5
#227 West Virginia University West Virginia 31 0
#236 University of Colorado Denver Colorado 29 2
#236 Florida Institute of Technology Florida 32 9
#236 University of Nevada--Las Vegas Nevada 1 0
#236 University of New Mexico-Main Campus New Mexico 4 1
#236 North Dakota State University-Main Campus North Dakota 5 3
#236 University of Texas-Arlington Texas 83 20
#250 University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Massachusetts 18 0
#250 University of Missouri--Kansas City Missouri 1 0
#250 University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley Texas 3 0
#262 University of Maine Maine 32 2
#262 Western New England University Massachusetts 27 1
#262 George Fox University Oregon 6 0
#262 University of South Dakota South Dakota 10 3
#262 University of Texas--El Paso Texas 6 0
#276 Harding University Arkansas 5 2
#276 California Baptist University California 9 0
#276 University of New Haven Connecticut 30 23
#276 Widener University Pennsylvania 21 2
#276 Marymount University Virginia 1 0
#288 University of Hartford Connecticut 7 0
#288 Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Illinois 11 0
#288 Wichita State University Kansas 31 4
#288 University of Memphis Tennessee 61 4
#288 University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee Wisconsin 20 2
#299 Boise State University Idaho 1 0
#299 University of Toledo Ohio 42 15
#308 Northern Illinois University Illinois 11 0
#308 Montana State University Montana 38 3
#308 Wilkes University Pennsylvania 8 2
#317 Marshall University West Virginia 12 0
#342 University of Akron Ohio 29 1
#342 Cleveland State University Ohio 21 13
#365 Jackson State University Mississippi 2 0
#376 University of Bridgeport Connecticut 9 9
#382 Grand Canyon University Arizona 28 2
#382 Wright State University-Main Campus Ohio 25 15
LAC #29 Bucknell University Pennsylvania 26 1
LAC #44 Union College New York 38 4
LAC #180 Alabama State University Alabama 13 2
— California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo California 132 2
— University of California-San Francisco California 43 8
— Universidad Politecnica de Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 43 0
— Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Indiana 32 0
— South Dakota School of Mines and Technology South Dakota 30 0
— Wentworth Institute of Technology Massachusetts 28 0
— Milwaukee School of Engineering Wisconsin 28 1
— The College of New Jersey New Jersey 24 2
— Saint Cloud State University Minnesota 22 13
— Florida Gulf Coast University Florida 22 3
— Louisiana Tech University Louisiana 20 2
— SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry New York 20 20
— Lawrence Technological University Michigan 18 1
— University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Wisconsin 16 0
— Keck Graduate Institute California 15 3
— Trine University Indiana 13 0
— Indiana Institute of Technology Indiana 10 2
— Grand Valley State University Michigan 10 0
— University of Mount Union Ohio 9 0
— Oregon Health & Science University Oregon 9 0
— University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Texas 9 5
— Alfred University New York 8 2
— Medical College of Wisconsin Wisconsin 8 1
— Valparaiso University Indiana 7 1
— Bunker Hill Community College Massachusetts 7 0
— University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Puerto Rico 7 3
— Southern California Institute of Technology California 7 0
— Middlesex Community College Massachusetts 6 1
— Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science Minnesota 6 2
— Messiah University Pennsylvania 6 0

Purple: international students are 25% or more of the school's graduates.

Related jobs and pay

OccupationUS employmentMean hourly wageMean annual wage
Architectural and Engineering Managers 220,260 $87.28 $181,540
Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary 40,270 — $124,520
Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers 23,480 $56.20 $116,890

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025.

Graduate counts: IPEDS Completions, US Department of Education, 2002–2025. Rankings: 2027 U.S. News.