Graduate Students

About the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering

The goal of the biomedical engineering graduate program is to provide students the interdisciplinary training in biological and medical sciences, physical sciences, and engineering necessary to solve complex biomedical problems. Faculty members from engineering, biomedical sciences, materials sciences, chemistry, physics, medicine, and dental medicine form an interdisciplinary graduate degree program that spans the University of Connecticut campuses at Storrs and at the Health Center (UCHC) in Farmington.

The BME Graduate Program Handbook provides complete information about the program.

Students with a B.S. degree in BME are ideally suited for the BME M.S. and Ph.D. studies at UConn.  Students with a B.S. degree in either engineering or physical sciences or mathematics may seek admission to the BME Program at UConn.  Students with a non-BME engineering degrees will need to take at least the required undergraduate BME courses at UConn (BME 211, 221, 251, 252, 261W, and 271).  Students with life science undergraduate degrees must take remedial course work in basic and advanced engineering and mathematics (two years through differential equations) and the required undergraduate BME course at UConn.  Note that these undergraduate courses do not count toward the BME graduate program degree requirements. 

For information concerning the M.S. and Ph.D. programs, click below:

M.S. Program
Ph.D. Program

Candidacy and Plan of Study

The BME graduate program does not require submission of a plan of study.  The PeopleSoft system is used to monitor graduate degree requirements.  It is important to let the program director when you have completed degree requirements (successfully defended and met the course requirements).  After this notification, the program director will certify with the graduate school that the degree requirements have been met.