Good BME Graduate schools

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What are some good graduate schools with BME program?

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Umich, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Penn,…

Basically once you find a program that is strong enough, look beyond rankings. Rankings are pretty subjective to be honest, so US News should not be solely what you base your decision off of. It is also important that you consider aspects such as whether or not you will enjoy being on campus for the next one to five years (depending on if you are going for a master’s or PhD), who you want to work with if you are interested in research, etc.

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Thanks @umcoe16

Anyone else?

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Purdue…

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bump

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What do you want to study?

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Here are a few resources:

http://www.phds.org/rankings/biomedical-engineering

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/biomedical-rankings

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-schools-in-the-US-for-biomedical-engineering

Add Washington and UCSD to your list.

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When it comes to graduate schools, there are no “good schools” in the sense of looking for an undergraduate program. There are good research groups. In other words, you have to think about what it is that you’d like to study (be as specific as you can) and then look into which schools have a research group or groups that are strong in that area. You can usually do this through a combination of faculty webpages, talking to faculty at your current school, and flipping through journals in the field of you know what you want to do specifically enough.

For example, when I was looking at graduate programs in aerospace engineering, I knew I wanted to do fluid mechanics research, so it wouldn’t have made a whole lot of sense to try to go to MIT despite the fact that it’s a “good school.” They have little in the way of what I wanted to study. You’ll have to do your homework a little here and there’s little we can do to help since we don’t know your interests.

Rankings are even more laughable for the graduate level, in my opinion. That said, a more highly ranked school is more likely to have good research groups within it, but a good ranking hardly guarantees that the program has a strength in your area of interest. If you don’t have an area of interest, then perhaps the rankings are more meaningful, but then I’d question your decision to do graduate school at this point in time anyway.

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^ This is excellent advice: “You can usually do this through a combination of faculty webpages, talking to faculty at your current school, and flipping through journals in the field if you know what you want to do specifically enough.”

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Don´t forget the BME program that has the Georgia Tech with Emory University. Also, the Prosthesis M.S at GaTech is pretty good.

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@lanahere Georgia Tech has joint programs with Emory Medical school in Atlanta. It offers a one year professional masters degree in medical device design. And it offers programs with universities in China. Its a very strong program with a lot of flexibility, and also biomaterials track.

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For PhD programs, an active research department will also have money to support you … as well as active research projects for you to start working on, with funding from government or private sources.