BME at a Glance

Education

U-M BME is one of the largest BME graduate programs in the U.S. and has awarded more graduate degrees than any other BME department in the country.
U-M is one of the only universities in the country with top-ranked engineering, medical, and business schools on the same campus.
U-M BME is ranked #6 in undergraduate education by US News and World Report 2012.
U-M BME is ranked #7 in graduate education by US News and World Report 2012.
U-M BME is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org, one of only 71 BME Departments to achieve ABET accreditation.
U-M BME has six graduate concentrations: bioelectrics, biomaterials, biomechanics, biotechnology, biomedical imaging, and ergonomics and rehabilitation engineering.
U-M BME has combined an undergraduate/graduate program in one of three concentrations: biochemical, bioelectrics, biomechanics.

Research

U-M BME’s Lurie Biomedical Engineering building and the Carl Gerstacker building include state-of-the art research facilities for our faculty and students with access to a variety of biomedical labs throughout the U-M College of Engineering and the Medical School.
The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, along with the College of Engineering and the Medical School, has enabled the creation of a $20 million endowment to enhance and support research directed at technologies promising progression towards commercial development and clinical practice.
Every core faculty member is involved in translational research with distinguished medical clinicians on a variety of projects.
We are consistently ranked in the top ten for NIH research funding.
U-M BME has the sixth-highest total research expenditures of all BME departments.
U-M BME has the third-highest research expenditures per faculty member of all BME departments.

Personnel