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 University of Connecticut 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 engineering, 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 3100 (211)**, 3300 (220), 3400 (251), 4300 (252), 3600W (261W), and 3700 (271).  Students with life science and mathematics undergraduate degrees must take remedial course work in basic and advanced engineering and/or 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, please follow the links below:

M.S. Program
Ph.D. Program

Candidacy and Plan of Study

The BME graduate program does require submission of a plan of study. It is important to notify the program director when you have completed degree requirements (i.e. successfully defended and met the course requirements).  After this notification, all paperwork submitted for certification to the program director will indicate to the Graduate School that degree requirements have been met.

*The BME Graduate Program Handbook is currently under revision. Please check back for updates.

** Catalog number system was changed from a 3-digit system to a 4-digit system in 2008. Old catalog numbers listed in parentheses.