Course Length: BEng: 3 years full-time; 4 years with sandwich year; 5 years PT MEng: 4 years full-time; 5 years with sandwich year; 6 years PT Biomedical engineering is a rapidly growing field. The discipline fuses engineering with medicine to improve healthcare delivery, and develops innovative technologies for prognosis, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment. Our degree is designed to meet the current needs of healthcare providers by training biomedical engineers who can design and improve systems, devices and treatments. By choosing this degree you have the potential to make life-changing advancements in the field, working on a diverse range of projects such as artificial organs, automated patient monitoring, blood chemistry sensors, advanced therapeutic and surgical devices, application of expert systems and artificial intelligence to clinical decision making, design of optimal clinical laboratories, medical imaging systems, computer modelling of physiological systems, biomaterials design, and biomechanics for injury and wound healing, among many others. You will study mathematics and science alongside biomedical engineering and learn to apply new approaches to biological challenges. You will be armed with the skills, knowledge and experience to innovate the future of healthcare by entering a career in the expanding field of biomedical engineering or by progressing to postgraduate study in a related field. If you apply for our four year MEng Biomedical Engineering course through UCAS you can gain a masters qualification by completing the fourth year of the degree. You can also receive student loan funding to cover your postgraduate course fees.

A degree in biomedical engineering is a stepping-stone to an increasing number of global career opportunities. This is supported by research from the US Department of Labour, which expects the biomedical engineering profession to achieve an above average employment growth of 72% over the next decade, due to the technological advances needed to meet the medical needs of an ageing population. This also applies to the UK where there is a similar need for better and more bespoke medical equipment. Graduates find employment in a wide variety of settings, particularly within research, laboratory-based work and biomedical product design companies. You could be employed in the NHS or a private company. Career opportunities include: Cellular, tissue, genetic, clinical or rehabilitation engineering Bioinstrumentation Biomaterials Biomechanics Drug design and delivery Medical imaging Orthopaedic surgery Pharmaceuticals Systems physiology.