Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical engineering programmes apply engineering to medicine — instrumentation and imaging, biomaterials and implants, biomechanics, and tissue and neural engineering. It is Florida’s newest and fastest-growing engineering discipline. ⚠⚠ It is also the one where the bachelor’s degree is least often the end of the story: fewer than half of employers treat it as sufficient, and two Florida universities award the degree at graduate level only.

The degrees this program covers

The programme and the major are the same thing: a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, with master’s and doctoral degrees above it. Some programmes brand it bioengineering, which is the same degree. ⚠⚠ UNLIKE MOST PROGRAMMES IN THIS REPOSITORY, THE GRADUATE DEGREES ARE NOT OPTIONAL EXTRAS — UCF and FAU offer them without any bachelor’s, and O*NET reports 26% of employers requiring a master’s and 13% a doctorate. ⚠ Check ABET accreditation under the ENGINEERING commission, not engineering technology.

Careers this program leads to

Each one sets out the courses along the way, the licence or certification at the end, and the sources behind it.

Biomedical Engineer

Biomedical engineers apply engineering to medicine — instrumentation and imaging, biomaterials and implants, biomechanics, and the tissue and neural engineering at the research frontier. It is the fastest-growing and newest engineering discipline in Florida. ⚠⚠ It is also the one where the bachelor’s degree is least often the end of the story: only 43% of employers treat it as sufficient, and two Florida universities award the degree at graduate level ONLY. Read the projected-need section before you commit — the arithmetic is not on any programme page.

Programs similar to this one

Neighbouring fields that share much of the same coursework, and often the same employers. ⚠ Read these before you commit to a major — which doors a neighbouring degree keeps open is the part no catalog tells you, and it is far cheaper to change now than later.

Mechanical Engineering 11 Florida schools

⚠ Read this before you choose, and not as a consolation: mechanical is offered at every Florida public university, the occupation is far larger, and it feeds the orthopaedic and device industry heavily. Many biomedical roles at bachelor’s level are filled by mechanical graduates.

Electrical Engineering 10 Florida schools

The other half of the device industry — instrumentation, imaging, signal processing and the electronics inside anything implanted or monitored. A strong route into medical devices, and available at ten institutions.

Chemical Engineering 4 Florida schools

Where biomaterials, drug delivery and bioprocessing are taught in depth, and a more transferable bachelor’s if you later move out of the medical sector.

Florida public institutions offering this program

8 institutions awarded a credential in this field in 2023, at these levels: Bachelor's, Doctorate (research/scholarship), Master's, Postbaccalaureate certificate. A school appears here if it awards anything in the field, however limited its offering — a technical college teaching only practical nursing has a nursing program. Listed alphabetically, not ranked.

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Bachelor's · Doctorate (research/scholarship) · Master's

Florida Atlantic University

Master's · Postbaccalaureate certificate

Florida Gulf Coast University

Bachelor's

Florida International University

Bachelor's · Doctorate (research/scholarship) · Master's

Florida State University

Bachelor's · Doctorate (research/scholarship) · Master's

University of Central Florida

Doctorate (research/scholarship) · Master's

University of Florida

Bachelor's · Doctorate (research/scholarship) · Master's · Postbaccalaureate certificate

University of South Florida

Bachelor's · Doctorate (research/scholarship) · Master's

Source: federal IPEDS completions data for 2023, first majors only — the most recent year published. ⚠ It records what was awarded, which is strong evidence of what is offered, but a program launched since 2023 will not appear here. Check the institution’s own catalog before applying.

Updated 21 September 2026. ⚠ Program pages describe a field of study, not one school’s degree — always read the catalog of the institution you are applying to.