Academic Stepping Stone
Prepare for grad school, medical school or a career developing health care devices and procedures.
Join the Biomedical Revolution!
Plug into one of the fastest growing occupations in the world at a top-25 research university in a department chock-full of options.
Work alongside award-winning faculty across disciplines on projects such as:
- artificial hearts and limbs
- screening for ovarian cancer
- surgical procedures for brain cancer
- wearable health monitors
- rapid tests for disease
- treatments for retinopathy
Earn your BS, MS or PhD in biomedical engineering at the University of Arizona!
By the Numbers
4th
highest starting salary
(U.S. News & World Report)
100%
fully funded doctoral students
50%
undergrads continuing to grad school
$3.9 million
annual research expenditures (2023)
Top 40
public biomedical engineering schools
(U.S. News & World Report)
19th
R&D ranking, public universities
(National Science Foundation)
Crossroads of Collaboration
"When we join forces, when we collaborate, when we are open to listening to new approaches and understanding the other, that’s when exciting things happen."
Biomedical engineering department head Mario Romero-Ortega