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Innovate the world of healthcare.

Biomedical Engineering is an exciting, multidisciplinary field that lies at the interface of medicine, biology and engineering.

Biomedical engineers use engineering principles to analyze and solve problems in biology and medicine, providing an overall enhancement to healthcare. Biomedical engineers create technology to save lives and improve the quality of life. Much of the equipment in hospitals and clinics across the globe was designed, built and tested by biomedical engineers. At the same time, biomedical engineers employ concepts learned from biology and medicine to generate new biomimeticÌýengineering designs in fields such as robotics and artificial intelligence.

Despite the advances in medicine to date, many injuries and diseases still lead to high rates of morbidity and mortality. Current research in biomedical engineering at CU Boulder focuses on innovative areas such as biomechanics and mechanobiology;Ìýmedical devices;Ìýimaging and diagnostics;Ìýand therapeutics. Our goal is to create technology—drugs and devices—to treat these injuries and illnesses safely and effectively.

Designated asÌýthe #1 stateÌýwithÌýthe highest concentration of BME jobs in 2022Ìý(U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), CU Boulder offers abundant opportunitiesÌýto advance your professional and academic careers. With our strong connections to CU Anschutz and national labs such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology, students also have opportunities to impactÌýreal-world research.

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The college offers fiveÌýbiomedical engineering degree programs.

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Research Areas

Research topics range from studying the skeletal mechanical environment and its regulation of cancer, to light-matter interaction in nanoscale materials for biomedical imaging, to developing strategies for rationally engineering next-generation smart antimicrobials that can eliminate multi-drug resistant superbugs.

Our students and faculty pursue academics and research in the following focus areas:

Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
Medical Devices
Imaging and Diagnostics
Therapeutics

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Colorado​ is #1

highest concentration of
biomedical engineeringÌýjobs
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022

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10%

Projected job growth
through 2031
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023

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$97,410

National median salary
for biomedical engineers
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2021

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90+

Biomedical companiesÌý
currently hiring in Colorado
LinkedIn Jobs, 2020

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