Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers Finding a bioengineering or biomedical engineering program that matches one's needs and desires is a challenging process involving intelligent research and investigation. We at the Rutgers Department of Biomedical Engineering have designed this web page to facilitate your search. As you will learn, our department offers truly exceptional opportunities for the intellectual development, personal growth and success of students in an environment of diversity and vibrancy. As part of a nationally acclaimed research university, we are committed to providing innovative undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate bioengineering education that prepares students both for success in their chosen career, and for a lifetime of deep and extensive learning. Click here to learn more about our program.

Education is our number one priority. At the Rutgers Department of Biomedical Engineering, superior teaching is enriched by the commitment of our faculty to incorporate new knowledge in our undergraduate and graduate courses, and to actively involve students in the process of inquiry and discovery. The faculty are dedicated to assuring that students will achieve their fullest potential through challenging and innovative bioengineering curricula that offer a rich menu of disciplinary choices. For prospective graduate fellows, new prestigious training programs (NSF IGERT: Integrated Science and Engineering of Stem Cells; DOE GAANN: "Molecular, Cellular, and Nanosystems Bioengineering") have been launched to enrich students through crossdisciplinary experiences in bioengineering.

BME Program receives first Accreditation
The Department of Biomedical engineering is proud to announce that its Baccalaureate Program has been officially accredited by the Accreditation Commission of ABET, Inc., the recognized accrediting body for college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology. The Accreditation is retroactive to 2005.

Our faculty is first-rate. The faculty in the Rutgers Department of Biomedical Engineering are leaders in promoting new ways of thinking and learning. They excel at linking theory to practice in imaginative ways that allow the academic experience to be enhanced by the latest advances in scholarship and technology.

Our research is state of the art.
Research within the Department of Biomedical Engineering is remarkable in that it spans an incredibly wide spectrum of topics in biomedical engineering, bioengineering, clinical engineering, biophysics, physiology, and biotechnology. Rutgers Bioengineering students can select research advisors from over 80 faculty affiliated with the department, all of whom direct modern laboratories located in either university, medical school, teaching hospital, or industrial settings. In the 70's and 80's, research in the Biomedical Engineering department was most prominent in the development of many of today's most advanced cardiovascular and neurosystem related instruments and technologies. Today, Rutgers Bioengineering has become a recognized leader in many additional areas including: molecular systems bioengineering, biomaterials and tissue engineering, rehabilitation engineering, and biomedical imaging.

We stay on the cutting edge. As part of our unstinting devotion to excellence in bioengineering and biomedical engineering research and teaching, our department maintains the nimbleness to adapt our priorities and commitments to new opportunities and challenges, and to the changing dynamics of the world and of the university ecosystem. We constantly review and incorporate into our program high impact biomedical engineering advances that are published in prominent places, and discussed in the international media. By staying abreast of the discipline's breakthroughs, we exercise our habit of constantly pursuing the best.

Questions? Comments? Contact the Department.
Department Administrator:    Robin Yarborough (ryarboro@rci.rutgers.edu)
732-445-4500 x6112

For the undergraduate program:    Linda Johnson (lindalj@rci.rutgers.edu)
732-445-4500 x6110

For the graduate program:    Larry Stromberg (les42@rci.rutgers.edu)
732-445-4500 x6111