Beng in Biomedical Engineering
Manchester, United Kingdom
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 20,000 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* full-time fee for EU and Non-EU international students
Introduction
Our BEng (Hons) Biomedical Engineering degree offers the chance to harness engineering principles to tackle medical issues. For technical thinkers and born problem solvers, it’s a degree that offers the practical skills and cutting-edge understanding to pursue a future in a highly specialized field.
From start to finish, it’s a degree with a hands-on approach: with us, you’ll learn by doing. Even in the first few weeks, you'll tackle a team-based design-and-build challenge to help you get settled into the subject. Then, at the end of each year, you’ll finish off with a major project – your chance to turn learning into action.
Along the way, you’ll explore a range of topics – from key engineering concepts, design techniques, and digital manufacturing processes, to biological systems, anatomy, and physiology – while gaining practical experience with the latest technologies, like 3D printing and rapid prototyping.
The course then culminates in a major individual project, capturing all you’ve learned. It’s not only a chance to demonstrate your professional-standard technological skills but also a career-boosting opportunity to showcase your work at our degree show. Put simply, by the time you graduate, you’ll have what it takes to make a mark in biomedical engineering – not just for today, but for years to come.
This course is also available with a foundation year.
Features and Benefits
- Learn from experts in academic research, industrial R&D, and commercial design, giving you an understanding of the latest technology and design techniques, coupled with an appreciation of the commercial environment
- We’re ranked 6th in the UK for impact of research (REF 2021)
- Tackle real-world live projects set by our industry partners, with the chance to develop valuable skills and learn from feedback, advice, and insights from industry insiders
- The four-year placement route gives you the opportunity to spend your third year on an industry placement boosting your employment prospects on graduation
- Get hands-on with the latest digital design and fabrication technologies at our 3D additive and digital manufacturing centre, PrintCity
- We are investing £115m to transform the way we teach and you learn in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Opening in 2024, our new Dalton building will enhance collaboration between students, staff, and industry and provide new and improved teaching spaces, including a dedicated engineering learning studio and a purpose-built light engineering workshop
- Participate in national competitions, like the Formula Student racing car competition or the Engineering for People Design Challenge
- Take part in an Industry 4.0-focused degree program supported by strategic links with Siemens and Autodesk
- This degree course shares a common first year with our MEng and BEng degrees in electrical and electronic engineering and mechanical engineering, so you may be able to transfer between courses.
Admissions
Curriculum
Course Information
Biomedical engineering is absolutely central to the future of medicine. It’s the specialism behind some of the greatest leaps in treatment, diagnosis, and rehabilitation, and this course offers you the chance to be part of the next generation. Few other subjects offer such a direct route from technological innovation to human impact.
Our biomedical engineering degree program offers an exciting opportunity to be part of that future. With a mix of skills and understanding that crosses disciplines – setting design and engineering skills in a biomedical and sports science context – this is a course that opens the doors to a rewarding career with an impact on people’s health and well-being.
While it’s a subject rooted in complex theory and academic principle, it’s one you learn by stepping into the lab and getting to grips with real kit – by trying things, building things, and doing things. With that mix of knowledge and skill, you’ll finish the course equipped to become a technical leader and partner in biomedical projects across a range of industries and public services.
With this degree, you can aim for a career working with the latest technical innovations in primary healthcare, enhancing performance and accessibility in sports, or even helping create products that allow people to live safely, independently, and sustainably in communities across the world. In short, you can look ahead to a future with real impact.
Year 1
Core Units
- Electrical Engineering Principles
- Project Skills
- Design Project
- Engineering Mathematics
- Electronic Engineering Principles
- Mechanical Engineering Principles
- Applied Mechanical Engineering Principles
Year 2
Core Units
- Engineering Fluids
- Solid Mechanics
- Group Design Project
- Control Engineering
- Modeling and Simulation
- Anatomy and Physiology for Engineers
- Mechanical Design and Materials
Year 3
Core units
- Biotechnology
- Individual Project
- Project Design and Implementation
- Structural Analysis
- Bio-signalling and Control
- Computational Mechanics
- Digital Design Technologies
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Biomedical engineering is a growth sector that offers a variety of career paths throughout the healthcare, rehabilitation, and sports equipment industries. The core engineering skills and design techniques you’ll develop on the course open up even greater prospects, in a wider range of related occupations and associated fields.
When you graduate from the course, you will leave us equipped with an impressive range of transferrable skills – from problem-solving to multi-disciplinary team working – opening doors to all sorts of sectors, including technology management, sales, insurance, finance, administration, and government.
Student Testimonials
Program delivery
- Year 1 25% lectures, seminars, or similar; 75% independent study
- Year 2 25% lectures, seminars, or similar; 75% independent study
- Year 3 25% lectures, seminars, or similar; 75% independent study