If you plan on getting your master's degree in biomedical engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #57 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 20 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of biomedical engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 1,143 master's degrees in biomedical engineering to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Biomedical Engineering School for Your Master's Degree
The bio engineering master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 biomedical engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of biomedical engineering students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
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.
Student Debt - How much debt biomedical engineering students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized biomedical engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for biomedical engineering students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Biomedical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Johns Hopkins University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in biomedical engineering. Johns Hopkins is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Baltimore.
Those biomedical engineering students who get their master's degree from Johns Hopkins University earn $14,862 more than the average bio engineering student.
Columbia University in the City of New York is a good choice for students pursuing a master's degree in biomedical engineering. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Master's recipients from the biomedical engineering program at Columbia University in the City of New York earn $10,094 more than the typical college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
Every student who is interested in a master's degree in biomedical engineering has to check out Cornell University. Cornell is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Ithaca.
Master's recipients from the biomedical engineering program at Cornell University make $2,777 more than the standard graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
University of Pennsylvania is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in biomedical engineering. Located in the city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Biomedical Engineering master's degree recipients from University of Pennsylvania receive an earnings boost of around $13,263 above the average earnings of biomedical engineering majors.
Located in the medium-sized city of Rochester, University of Rochester is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Master's recipients from the biomedical engineering degree program at University of Rochester earn $8,821 above the standard college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
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 bio engineering master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
