Welcome BMES 2024!
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 2025
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.
- Clinical and Translational Bioengineering
- Neural Engineering
- Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, and Regenerative Medicine
- Assistive and Inclusive Technologies
- Medical Device Design, Entrepreneurship, and Regulatory Affairs
- Imaging and Biophotonics
- Orthopedics and Prosthetics
- Computational Biomechanics and Bioinformatics
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:
- Research methods and clinical experiences core (3 credits)
- Department seminar (2-3 credits)
- Quantitative methods core (3 credits)
- Life sciences electives (6 credits)
- Technology electives (6 credits)
- General electives (3-6 credits)
- Master’s project or thesis (3-6 credits)
PhD
The PhD in bioengineering requires 30 credits of didactic coursework and 30 credits of research thesis.
- Research methods and clinical experiences core (3 credits)
- Department seminar (2-3 credits)
- Quantitative methods core (3 credits)
- Quantitative methods elective (3 credits)
- Life sciences electives (6 credits)
- Technology electives (6 credits)
- General electives (6 credits)
- Doctoral thesis (30 credits)
"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