Program Overview

Biomedical Engineering Master of Science Degree

Overview

RIT’s biomedical engineering MS produces professionals who can innovate solutions for today’s most pressing health care challenges.

Why Pursue a Biomedical Engineering MS?

• STEM-OPT Visa Eligible: The STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) program allows full-time, on-campus international students on an F-1 student visa to stay and work in the U.S. for up to three years after graduation.
• Develop and Improve Technologies: Design equipment, devices, and processes such as artificial internal organs and prosthetics, pharmaceutical development and manufacturing processes, and machines for performing robotic-assisted surgery.
• Pathway to Advanced Education: Use your degree as a pipeline to graduate study or an immediate gateway to a dynamic biomedical engineering career.

Biomedical Engineering Is Critical to the Future of Health Care

Biomedical engineering applies the principles and theories of engineering to solve problems in the wide-ranging fields of medicine and health care. Biomedical engineers can be found working alongside scientists, other engineering professionals, and medical practitioners to evaluate the complex, interdependent systems of the human body in order to develop and research effective solutions to improve or enhance a patient’s quality of life.

Biomedical Engineering Master's Requirements

Through core courses and electives, RIT’s biomedical engineering master’s program will provide the knowledge you need to develop and define your knowledge of biomedical engineering principles and practices to prepare you to design biomedical engineering systems that result in applications that improve and enhance the health and well-being of patients.

Careers in Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical engineering is a rapidly growing field with a variety of career opportunities for students with an interest in combining engineering with medicine. It’s a branch of engineering that uniquely leverages the vast knowledge base of biology and medicine to solve problems focused on health care and the human body.

Biomedical Engineering: MS A Pathway to an Immediate Career or Advanced Study

The biomedical engineering master's program equips you to launch a career immediately after earning the degree or to pursue advanced study in any number of graduate or professional programs, including engineering, science, medicine, and healthcare professions.

Careers and Cooperative Education

Cooperative Education

Cooperative education is optional but strongly encouraged for graduate students in the biomedical engineering master’s program.

Curriculum for Biomedical Engineering MS

Biomedical Engineering, MS degree, typical course sequence

• First Year
  • BIME-607: Graduate Biodesign
  • Choose one of the following:
    • BIME-750: Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Biomedical Data
    • ISEE-760: Design of Experiments
    • MATH-655: Biostatistics
    • STAT-614: Applied Statistics
    • STAT-670: Design of Experiments
  • BIME-791: Graduate Biomedical Laboratory
  • BIME-792: Project with Paper
  • BCEP-795: Graduate Seminar*
  • CHME-709: Advanced Engineering Mathematics
  • BME Grad Elective
  • KGCOE Engineering Elective

Total Semester Credit Hours: 30

*Students take BCEP-795 twice.

Admissions and Financial Aid

Application Details

To be considered for admission to the Biomedical Engineering MS program, candidates must fulfill the following requirements:

• Complete an online graduate application.
• Submit copies of official transcript(s) (in English) of all previously completed undergraduate and graduate course work, including any transfer credit earned.
• Hold a baccalaureate degree (or US equivalent) from an accredited university or college in engineering (or a related scientific or technical field). A minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 (or equivalent) is recommended.
• Submit a current resume or curriculum vitae.
• Submit a personal statement of educational objectives.
• Submit two letters of recommendation.
• Entrance exam requirements: GRE optional but recommended. No minimum score requirement.
• Submit English language test scores (TOEFL, IELTS, PTE Academic), if required.

English Language Test Scores

International applicants whose native language is not English must submit one of the following official English language test scores.

• TOEFL: 88
• IELTS: 6.5
• PTE Academic: 60

Cost and Financial Aid

An RIT graduate degree is an investment with lifelong returns. Graduate tuition varies by degree, the number of credits taken per semester, and delivery method. View the general cost of attendance or estimate the cost of your graduate degree.

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