Biomedical Engineering - BEng (Hons)

Manchester Metropolitan University

Our BEng (Hons) Biomedical Engineering degree offers the chance to harness engineering principles to tackle medical issues. For technical thinkers and born problem solvers, it’s a degree that offers the practical skills and cutting-edge understanding to pursue a future in a highly specialised field. From start to finish, it’s a degree with a hands-on approach: with us, you’ll learn by doing. Even in the first few weeks, you’ll tackle a team-based design-and-build challenge to help you get settled into the subject. Then, at the end of each year, you’ll finish off with a major project – your chance to turn learning into action. Along the way, you’ll explore a range of topics – from key engineering concepts, design techniques and digital manufacturing processes, to biological systems, anatomy and physiology – while gaining practical experience of the latest technologies, like 3D printing and rapid prototyping. The course then culminates in a major individual project, capturing all you’ve learned. It’s not only a chance to demonstrate your professional-standard technological skills, but also a career-boosting opportunity to showcase your work at our degree show. Put simply, by the time you graduate, you’ll have what it takes to make a mark in biomedical engineering – not just for today, but for years to come.

Career prospects

Biomedical engineering is a growth sector that offers a variety of career paths throughout the healthcare, rehabilitation and sports equipment industries. The core engineering skills and design techniques you’ll develop on the course open up even greater prospects, in a wider range of related occupations and associated fields.

When you graduate from the course, you will leave us equipped with an impressive range of transferrable skills – from problem solving to multi-disciplinary team working – opening doors to all sorts of sectors, including technology management, sales, insurance, finance, administration and government.