biomedical engineering schools

Bachelors of Science Degree requirements

The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering is recognized as a world leader in preparing students for careers in industry and business and for graduate education in engineering, medicine, and science.

The BME undergraduate program contains a set of "core knowledge," defined and taught by the faculty, that future biomedical engineers should possess. The core includes courses in molecular and cellular biology, linear systems, biological control systems, modeling and simulation, thermodynamic principles in biology, and engineering analysis of systems level biology and physiology. Building on these core subjects, each student then takes a cohesive sequence of advanced engineering courses appropriate to one of five focus areas: Biological Systems Engineering; Cellular/Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials; Computational Biology; Imaging; and Sensors, Microsystems and Instrumentation.

The BS degree in biomedical engineering requires 129 credits. For an in-depth look at our requirements, please refer to the Undergraduate Advising Manual.

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Basic Sciences (22 credits)

• General Physics I and II with Labs
• Introductory Chemistry I and II with Labs
• Organic Chemistry I

Mathematics (24 credits)

• Calculus I, II, III
• Linear algebra
• Differential equations
• At least one additional semester of statistics (300-level or higher)

Humanities and Social Sciences (18 credits)

These courses should form a coherent program, relevant to the student’s goals, with at least one course at the 300-level or higher.

Biomedical Core Knowledge (35 credits)

What do biomedical engineers do?

• 580.111 Biomedical Modeling and Design
• 580.202 BME in the Real World

Molecular and cellular biology

• 580.221 Molecules and Cells

Creating, analyzing, and simulating a linear or nonlinear system model from knowledge of the real biological system

• 580.222 Biomedical Systems and Controls — Analysis of biological control systems
• 580.223 Biomedical Models and Simulations — Analysis of systems described by linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations

Fundamental thermodynamic principles in biology

• 580.321 Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Engineering analysis of systems-level biology and physiology

• 580.421 Systems Bioengineering I: Cells and Cardiovascular Systems
• 580.423 Systems Bioengineering Lab I
• 580.422 Systems Bioengineering II: Neural Systems
• 580.424 Systems Bioengineering Lab II
• 580.429 Systems Bioengineering III: Genes to Organs