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 specialised 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 of 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.

Placement options

Like all of our degrees, this course comes with the chance to spend a year getting a taste of professional life – though placements can be limited, so it’s not guaranteed for everyone. If you choose to go down this route, your degree will take one year longer, with the third year spent working in industry. 

These placements not only give you the opportunity to develop your core skills and learn about how an organisation in your industry really operates, but it also shows employers that you’re ready to get to work. 

If you do choose to pursue a placement, we offer a range of services to help you find the right one – including employer presentations, advice and placement fairs. 

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.