2025 Best Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
5Colleges in the Southwest Region
148Doctor's Degrees
Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #24 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for bioengineering & biomedical engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 148 doctor's degrees in bioengineering & biomedical engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree
The bioengineering doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality bioengineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on bioengineering & biomedical engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other bioengineering & biomedical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized bioengineering & biomedical engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for bioengineering & biomedical engineering students working on their doctor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Related Rankings by Major
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Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
The bioengineering doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality bioengineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
