Colorado's top-ranking bioengineering program
Solve clinical problems in medicine using engineering technology.
The Department of Bioengineering, situated on the Anschutz Medical Campus, provides unparalleled instructional resources for biomedical engineering and health sciences.
The Anschutz Medical Campus is the largest academic health center in the Rocky Mountain region. It is home to more than 1,300 funded investigators, the CU health professional schools, two nationally ranked hospitals, and a growing bioscience industry complex.
The Department of Bioengineering offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs, as well as certificates and dual-degree options.
Innovative, interconnected, and highly collaborative, the Anschutz Medical Campus is the best place in Colorado to be an engineer.
Recruiting Faculty, Fall 2023
Applicants to the PhD and master of science in bioengineering should meet the following minimum requirements:
- Prior GPA in most recent degree of 3.0 (B) or higher
- Completion of a bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited United States institution or comparable international institution, or
- Completion of a bachelor's degree in a bioscience-related field with:
- three semesters of calculus
- one semester of differential equations and linear algebra
- one semester of statistics
- one semester of mechanics
- one semester of circuits
- one semester of computer programming
Students may be admitted to the graduate bioengineering program with the provision that, in addition to the required courses, they take any missing courses at CU Denver. All math requirements must be completed prior to matriculation. There are no exceptions to this.
CU Denver and the graduate programs in bioengineering are accredited through the regional accreditation agency. For more information, visit www.ncahlc.org.
- Assistive Technologies
- Basic Research
- Biomedical Device Design
- Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Hemodynamics
- Cell and Tissue Biophysics
- Clinical Imaging
- Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Affairs
- Imaging and Biophotonics, Clinical and Translational Bioengineering
- Neural Engineering
- Orthopaedics and Prosthetics
- Polymers and Biomaterials
- Pulmonary Biomechanics
- Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
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Masters
The master of science in bioengineering requires 30 credit hours of coursework, including 3 to 6 credit hours of a master’s project or thesis:
- 3 credit hours of life sciences core
- 3 credit hours of quantitative methods core
- 6 credit hours of technology core
- 3 credit hours of research and clinical core
- 9-12 credit hours of electives
- 3-6 research core, including master’s project or thesis
PhD
The PhD in bioengineering requires 21 credits of didactic coursework, 30 credits of research coursework, and 9 credits of electives, broken down below. I’ve also attached the Program Worksheet so you can take a look at the courses offered.
- 6 credits of life sciences core
- 6 credits of quantitative core
- 6 credits of technology core
- 3 credits of research and clinical core
- 9 credits of electives
- 30 credits of research
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"I was driven to the Bioengineering program here at the University of Colorado given its affiliation with the reputable Anschutz Medical Campus. Being a part of Anschutz has allowed me and my peers to collaborate across multiple disciplines and specialties. It's a plus that Denver has the best of the city life and mountain life, making life outside of school truly a dream come true. I'm enthusiastic about the many career opportunities available to me in the Denver area."
Brookelynn
MS Student