Biomedical engineering programmes apply engineering to medicine — instrumentation and imaging, biomaterials and implants, biomechanics, and tissue and neural engineering. It is Florida’s newest and fastest-growing engineering discipline. ⚠⚠ It is also the one where the bachelor’s degree is least often the end of the story: fewer than half of employers treat it as sufficient, and two Florida universities award the degree at graduate level only.
The degrees this program covers
The programme and the major are the same thing: a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, with master’s and doctoral degrees above it. Some programmes brand it bioengineering, which is the same degree. ⚠⚠ UNLIKE MOST PROGRAMMES IN THIS REPOSITORY, THE GRADUATE DEGREES ARE NOT OPTIONAL EXTRAS — UCF and FAU offer them without any bachelor’s, and O*NET reports 26% of employers requiring a master’s and 13% a doctorate. ⚠ Check ABET accreditation under the ENGINEERING commission, not engineering technology.
Florida public institutions offering this program
8 institutions awarded a credential in this field in 2023,
at these levels: Bachelor's, Doctorate (research/scholarship), Master's, Postbaccalaureate certificate.
A school appears here if it awards anything in the field, however limited
its offering — a technical college teaching only practical nursing has a nursing
program. Listed alphabetically, not ranked.
Source: federal IPEDS completions data for 2023, first majors only.
⚠ It records what was awarded, which is strong evidence of what is offered
but can lag a newly launched program by a year or two. Check the institution’s own
catalog before applying.