Program Overview

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Introduction to the Degree in Biomedical Engineering

The Degree in Biomedical Engineering is a fascinating discipline for individuals who are drawn to technology, science, biology, and medicine. Biomedical engineering is a field that aims to solve problems in the biomedical sector using technological tools and engineering principles. It focuses primarily on the development and application of technologies, such as medical devices and algorithms based on artificial intelligence, to understand, diagnose, and treat human diseases.

Program Details

• Duration: Four academic years.
• Price: 1,248.52 €. Estimated price for the first year for EU students.
• Places: 40.
• Admissions: Information on how to access these studies.
• Branch of knowledge: Engineering and architecture.
• Schedules: Classes will be taught in the morning and afternoon in all courses.
• Calendar: From September to June.
• Credits: 240 ECTS credits.
  • Basic subjects: 64.
  • Compulsory subjects: 112.
  • Elective subjects: 40 (including up to 9 credits of external practices in companies / including up to 30 credits of international mobility).
  • Compulsory external practices: 6.
  • Final degree project: 18.
• Languages: Catalan, Spanish, and English (depending on the subject). Subjects in the third and fourth years are taught in English.
• Location: Poblenou Campus and Mar Campus.
• Organization: School of Engineering and Faculty of Health and Life Sciences.

Presentation

Our degree offers solid training, combining technology, basic sciences, mathematics, and biomedicine, enabling students to work on projects that apply technical engineering principles to the fields of medicine and biology. Additionally, the structure of the degree allows students to take personalized itineraries according to their interests, thanks to a wide range of elective subjects, many of which follow a project-based learning methodology.

Data and Indicators

The Degree in Biomedical Engineering has a duration of 4 years with 40 new places in the first year. In the period from 2020 to 2023, the total number of enrolled students remained around 200, with a gender ratio of around 66%-34% (women-men). The cut-off mark decreased from 12,572 to 12,418 during these years. The academic performance rate ranges between 90.18% and 93.21%, with a success rate of credits passed between 92.95% and 95.67%.

Study Plan

• New Study Plan: Starting from the 2025 academic year, a new plan for the Degree in Biomedical Engineering (plan 764, version February 2025) will be implemented.
• Each subject has its own teaching guide. Each year, we publish the list with the offer of electives.

Practices

The study plan includes optional external practices from the third year onwards.

External practices are a formative action developed by students and supervised by the university. They have three main objectives:

• Apply and complement the knowledge acquired in academic training.
• Bring the student closer to the reality of the professional field in which they will exercise their activity once they graduate.
• Develop the competencies that favor their incorporation into the labor market.

In the Degree in Biomedical Engineering, we have 84 companies and organizations where 229 students have done practices during the last three years. Some of these companies include:

• CapGemini
• NTT Data
• Worldline Iberia
• Accenture
• Mango
• Grifols
• Volkswagen
• INDRA
• Avanade
• Schneider Electric
• IDIBAPS
• Keonn Technologies
• Aqua eSolutions
• Vendo Services
• Blowww 4 Analytics
• Cuatrecasas
• IOMED Medical Solutions
• Sycai Technologies
• Grupo Catalana Occidente
• Gaes
• Henkel
• Indra
• Corporació Guissona
• Altran
• RocaSalvatella
• Penguin Random House
• EY

Stays Abroad

The study plan includes optional stays abroad from the third year onwards.

We have mobility agreements with the main European universities in Germany (Tübingen, Munich), Austria (Hagenberg), Croatia (Zagreb), France (Paris-Cergy, Grenoble, Lyon 1), Ireland (Maynooth), Iceland (Reykjavik), Italy (Rome, Bologna, Milan, Padua, Palermo), Portugal (Lisbon), Sweden (Gothenburg, Karlstad), Switzerland, the United Kingdom (Warwick, Essex).

Outside of Europe, we also have agreements with universities in the USA, Canada, Korea, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico.

Professional Outcomes

Biomedical engineers can work in universities, industry, hospitals, research facilities of educational and medical institutions, teaching, and regulatory agencies. They often perform a coordination or interconnection function, using their applied experience in both the scientific-technical and clinical-biomedical fields.

Some areas where biomedical engineers can work include:

• Artificial organs (hearing aids, pacemakers, artificial kidneys and hearts, oxygenators, synthetic blood vessels, joints, arms, and legs).
• Automatic patient monitoring (during surgery or in intensive care; healthy individuals in unusual environments, such as astronauts in space or divers underwater at great depths).
• Blood chemistry sensors (potassium, sodium, O2, CO2, and pH).
• Advanced therapeutic and surgical devices (laser system for eye surgery, automatic insulin dosing, etc.).
• Application of expert systems and artificial intelligence to clinical decision-making (computer-based systems for diagnosing diseases).
• Design of optimal clinical laboratories (computerized analyzer of blood samples, cardiac catheterization laboratory, etc.).
• Medical imaging systems (ultrasound, computer-assisted tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, etc.).
• Computational modeling of physiological systems (control of blood pressure, renal function, visual and auditory nervous circuits, etc.).
• Design of biomaterials (mechanics, transport, and biocompatibility properties of implantable artificial materials).
• Biomechanics of injuries and the healing process (gait analysis, application of growth factors, etc.).
• Sports medicine (rehabilitation, external support devices, etc.).

Testimonials

Our students in the Degree in Biomedical Engineering say:

• Maria Sánchez, third-year student: “From the third year onwards, we have access to do practices in leading companies in our sector.”
• Anna Barredo, fourth-year student: “The continuous involvement in real practical projects allows us to develop competencies and skills necessary to work in multidisciplinary teams, while also acquiring fully applicable technical knowledge to work situations.”

Our alumni from the Degree in Biomedical Engineering:

• Ivan Luque del Toro, student GEBM and first prize TFG of the Annual Congress of the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (CASEI, Cartagena 2023). Currently working at UPF in the development of implantable sensors.
• Roser Sánchez, director of research at Neuroelectrics, a creative and high-tech company that offers technology for non-invasive and high-definition electrical brain stimulation for personalized neuromodulation.

Cut-off Marks

The latest published cut-off mark for the Degree in Biomedical Engineering is 12,286.

More information about cut-off marks from other years.