Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering

• Comprehensive Curriculum: A calculus-based engineering degree with foundational science that includes cell and molecular biology, human physiology, physics, and chemistry.
• Gain Real-World Experience: Four blocks cooperative education offer opportunities to gain real-world experience through engineering co-ops.
• Jobs at Industry-Leading Companies: Companies hiring our students for co-ops include Medtronic, Merck, Moderna, Bausch & Lomb, Bristol Myers Squibb, Corning, Hill-Rom, Johnson & Johnson, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Regeneron, and more.

Improving the health and well-being of others is the emphasis of this dynamic biomedical engineering BS. Biomedical engineering leverages the vast knowledge base of engineering, biology, and medicine to solve problems focused on health care and the human body. Biomedical engineers:

• Design instruments, devices, and software
• Bring together knowledge from many technical sources to develop new medical products, procedures, and pharmaceuticals
• Conduct research needed to solve clinical problems
  RIT’s biomedical engineering BS is a five-year program consisting of the following:
• Biomedical Engineering Core Courses: A core set of courses in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) give you the ability to apply principles of science and engineering to analyze, model, design, and realize biomedical devices, systems, components, and processes. You will learn to solve biomedical engineering problems including those associated with the interaction between living and non-living systems as well as make measurements on, and interpret data from, living systems.
• Professional Technical Electives: Two free electives allow you to choose courses from any college in the university. In the fourth or fifth year of the program, students choose two technical electives specifically related to some aspect of biomedical engineering, such as biomechanics, instrumentation and imaging, or tissue engineering. 
• Cooperative Education: One year of cooperative education experience provides you with hands-on experience working in industry. (See Cooperative Education below.)
• Liberal Arts Courses: Courses that include writing, communications, and the humanities and social sciences comprise liberal arts courses you will complete as part of your degree. A three-course immersion is also required. The immersion can enhance your biomedical engineering studies or be a topic that explores a personal interest.
• Free Electives: Chosen based on your interests, these free electives provide you with the opportunity to select additional course work to enhance a personal or professional interest.
• Multidisciplinary Senior Design: This two-course multidisciplinary senior design experience integrates engineering theory, principles, and processes within a collaborative environment that bridges engineering disciplines. Explore projects and innovations developed in multidisciplinary senior design.

Learn more about the Student Learning Outcomes and Program Educational Objectives for the biomedical engineering BS degree.

It’s a question we’re asked all the time. While there are subtle differences in the course work between the two, choosing a major in engineering or engineering technology is more about identifying what you like to do and how you like to do it.

Furthering Your Education in Biomedical Engineering

Students enrolled in the biomedical engineering undergraduate program may choose to participate in one of our pre-med or pre-vet advising programs:

• Premedical and Health Professions Advisory Program offers guidance and advice on becoming a competitive applicant to admission into medical schools and graduate programs in the health professions.
• Pre-Vet Advising Program helps you maximize your candidacy for admission to veterinary schools.

RIT’s Combined Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Degrees enable you to earn both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in as little as five years, giving you a competitive advantage.  

• Biomedical Engineering BS/Science, Technology and Public Policy MS: Throughout history, technology has been a major driver of social, political, and economic change. Societies around the globe employ public policies to solve problems and achieve their social, economic, and environmental objectives. The spheres of public policy and technology overlap as society is challenged to consider not only the role of new technologies in its quest for improved quality of life, but also how policies affect the development, emergence, and choice of new technologies. Because of the role engineers play in creating new technology, they increasingly have an important role in helping to shape public policy. Moreover, policies affecting how we as a society live and work—such as environmental, industrial, energy, and national security policy, to name a few—demand that engineers be prepared to integrate policy issues into their engineering practice. Biomedical engineering students may choose to pursue an accelerated dual degree in which they may complete the BS in biomedical engineering and an MS in science, technology and public policy in approximately five years. Many biomedical engineers combine their technical knowledge with the policy skills needed to analyze and advocate for policy change in both private and public organizations. The interdisciplinary nature of the program, in conjunction with the quantitative and qualitative approaches taken to understand and analyze policy, will contribute to your ability to gain exciting leadership roles in a range of the engineering fields.

https://www.rit.edu/study/biomedical-engineering-bs