生物医学工程（Biomedical Engineering）属于一门交叉学科，与生物工程密切相关，是将工程技术与医学相结合以提高医疗水平的一门学科，其主要目的是研发各类先进医疗设备。传统的生物医学工程其研究领域非常广泛，包括：生物信息学、医学图像、图像处理、生理信号处理、生物力学、生物材料、系统分析、三维建模等等。生物医学工程的应用实例有生物兼容的假体、医疗器械、诊断设备、MRI和EEG这样的成像设备以及医用药品。其它还包括起搏器、infusion pump、心肺机、透析机、诊断设备、人工器官、移植以及先进的弥补术等，都属于生物医学工程的研发产品。
生物医学工程师美国各州就业情况：
2015USNews美国大学研究生生物医学与生物工程专业排名
生物医学与生物医学工程区别
生物医学本质是医学，研究的是生物原理下的医学问题。生物医学工程是研发医疗设备的，和计算机、电子都有交界。| 常见学位 | BE、BS、MS、M.E、PhD |
| 平均薪水 | 生物医学工程师：$88,360 |
| 签证敏感度 | 是 |
| 高中课程准备 | 理科 |
| 所属专业领域 | 工科 |
| 相关排名 | 2015USNEWS生物医学工程排名 |
课程列表
| 生理学 | Physiology |
| 生物材料 | Biomaterials |
| 生物运输 | Biological Transport |
| 组织工程 | Tissue Engineering |
| 生物技术与环境加工 | Biotechnology and Environmental Processes |
| 生物工艺设计 | Bioprocess Design |
| 生物医药流体力学 | Biomedical Fluid Mechanics |
| 医学设备 | Medical Devices |
| 神经解剖学原理 | Principles of Neuroanatomy |
| 细胞生物学 | Cell Biology |
| 基因学 | Genetics |
| 生物系统热传效应 | Heat Transfer in Biological Systems |
就业状况
从事职业：生物学家、化学家、卫生保健系统管理员、研究员、外科医生、计算机硬件工程师。生物医学工程师美国各州就业情况：
| 州名 | 就业人数 | 薪水/h | 薪水/年 |
| 加利福尼亚州 | 5410 | $48.83 | $101,570 |
| 马萨诸塞州 | 1740 | $46.19 | $96,070 |
| 德克萨斯州 | 1430 | $45.25 | $94,110 |
| 宾夕法尼亚州 | 1260 | $40.33 | $83,890 |
| 明尼苏达州 | 1110 | $49.73 | $103,440 |
| 犹他州 | 350 | $40.36 | $83,950 |
| 印第安纳州 | 780 | $32.60 | $67,820 |
| 科罗拉多州 | 110 | $50.27 | $104,550 |
| 明尼苏达州 | 1110 | $49.73 | $103,440 |
| 弗吉尼亚州 | 460 | $47.02 | $97,790 |
2015USNews美国大学研究生生物医学与生物工程专业排名
| 排名 | 院校 | 学费 | 工程专业研究生注册总人数 |
| #1 | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD |
$45,470 per year (full-time) | 3,296 |
| #2 | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA |
$11,324 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,330 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 4,576 |
| #3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA |
$43,210 per year (full-time) | 3,174 |
| #3 | University of California-San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA |
$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,715 |
| #5 | Duke University (Pratt) Durham, NC |
$47,100 per year (full-time) | 981 |
| #5 | Stanford University Stanford, CA |
$45,480 per year (full-time) | 3,517 |
| #7 | Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX |
$38,260 per year (full-time) | 760 |
| #7 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA |
$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,936 |
| #7 | University of Washington Seattle, WA |
$14,904 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,594 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,139 |
| #10 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA |
$28,768 per year (full-time) | 1,609 |
| #11 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI |
$22,322 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,998 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,178 |
| #11 | Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO |
$44,100 per year (full-time) | 879 |
| #13 | Boston University Boston, MA |
$43,970 per year (full-time) | 907 |
| #13 | Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL |
$45,120 per year (full-time) | 1,799 |
| #15 | Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH |
$38,588 per year (full-time) | 633 |
| #15 | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY |
$39,360 per year (full-time) | 2,827 |
| #15 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY |
$29,530 per year (full-time) | 1,812 |
| #15 | University of Pittsburgh (Swanson) Pittsburgh, PA |
$22,916 per year (in-state, full-time); $37,528 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,067 |
| #15 | University of Texas-Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX |
$9,564 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,506 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,397 |
| #20 | University of California-Davis Davis, CA |
$13,109 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,211 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,130 |
| #20 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN |
$14,708 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,990 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,928 |
| #20 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN |
$1,747 per credit (full-time) | 495 |
| #23 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA |
$39,990 per year (full-time) | 569 |
| #24 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA |
$40,000 per year (full-time) | 3,157 |
| #24 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI |
$11,858 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,184 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,940 |
| #26 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA |
$38,888 per year (full-time) | 449 |
| #26 | Purdue University-West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN |
$10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,333 |
| #26 | University of California-Irvine (Samueli) Irvine, CA |
$13,812 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,914 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,325 |
| #26 | Yale University New Haven, CT |
$36,500 per year (full-time) | 196 |
| #30 | University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL |
$16,754 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,246 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,154 |
| #30 | University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA |
$14,358 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,682 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 655 |
| #32 | Texas A&M University-College Station (Look) College Station, TX |
$227 per credit (in-state, full-time); $581 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,066 |
| #32 | University of California-Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA |
$12,562 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,664 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,854 |
| #34 | Clemson University Clemson, SC |
$9,392 per year (in-state, full-time); $19,536 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,427 |
| #34 | Pennsylvania State University-University Park University Park, PA |
$19,304 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,416 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,719 |
| #34 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY |
$45,100 per year (full-time) | 783 |
| #34 | University of Maryland-College Park (Clark) College Park, MD |
$11,460 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,720 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,150 |
| #34 | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC |
$9,209 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,663 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 117 |
| #34 | University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA |
$29,448 per year (full-time) | 4,857 |
| #34 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT |
$6,242 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,772 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,180 |
| #34 | Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA |
$11,184 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,146 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,193 |
| #42 | Brown University Providence, RI |
$44,608 per year (full-time) | 321 |
| #42 | Drexel University Philadelphia, PA |
$29,295 per year (full-time) | 1,146 |
| #42 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL |
$12,642 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,035 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,739 |
| #45 | Ohio State University Columbus, OH |
$11,928 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,592 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,680 |
| #45 | Tufts University Medford, MA |
$27,472 per year (full-time) | 592 |
| #45 | University of Iowa Iowa City, IA |
$8,106 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,690 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 412 |
| #48 | University of Rochester Rochester, NY |
$1,395 per credit (full-time) | 605 |
| #49 | Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe, AZ |
$10,300 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,286 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,136 |
| #49 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ |
$15,552 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,704 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,162 |
| #49 | University of Connecticut Storrs, CT |
$11,456 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,740 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 873 |
| #49 | University of Illinois-Chicago Chicago, IL |
$13,966 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,964 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,117 |
| #53 | Marquette University Milwaukee, WI |
$1,025 per credit (full-time) | 181 |
| #53 | Northeastern University Boston, MA |
$1,315 per credit (full-time) | 2,690 |
| #53 | Stony Brook University-SUNY Stony Brook, NY |
$9,870 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,350 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,393 |
| #53 | Tulane University New Orleans, LA |
$44,950 per year (full-time) | 66 |
| #53 | University of Arizona Tucson, AZ |
$10,508 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,380 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,041 |
| #58 | Dartmouth College (Thayer) Hanover, NH |
$45,445 per year (full-time) | 291 |
| #58 | Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour) Chicago, IL |
$1,204 per credit (full-time) | 1,587 |
| #58 | Syracuse University Syracuse, NY |
$1,294 per credit (full-time) | 996 |
| #58 | Temple University Philadelphia, PA |
$853 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,150 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 260 |
| #58 | University of Alabama-Birmingham Birmingham, AL |
$6,390 per year (in-state, full-time); $15,030 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 451 |
| #58 | Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA |
$9,541 per year (in-state, full-time); $20,338 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 248 |
| #58 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA |
$23,058 per year (full-time) | 1,125 |
| #65 | CUNY-City College (Grove) New York, NY |
$10,740 per year (in-state, full-time); $790 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 613 |
| #65 | Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN |
$359 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,027 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 260 |
| #65 | University at Buffalo-SUNY Buffalo, NY |
$9,870 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,350 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,801 |
| #65 | University of California-Riverside (Bourns) Riverside, CA |
$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,332 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 594 |
| #65 | University of Kentucky Lexington, KY |
$10,772 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,838 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 518 |
| #65 | University of Texas-San Antonio San Antonio, TX |
$260 per credit (in-state, full-time); $968 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 590 |
| #71 | Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO |
$10,450 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,240 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 726 |
| #71 | Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA |
$7,452 per year (in-state, full-time); $8,128 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 359 |
| #71 | Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI |
$14,202 per year (in-state, full-time); $14,202 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 907 |
| #71 | University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH |
$12,522 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,036 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 870 |
| #71 | University of Miami Coral Gables, FL |
$1,730 per credit (full-time) | 276 |
| #71 | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN |
$43,980 per year (full-time) | 484 |
| #71 | Wayne State University Detroit, MI |
$643 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,288 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,019 |