The main focus area for this major is Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Biomedical Engineering is a major offered under the engineering program of study at Carnegie Mellon University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in bio engineering, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. Carnegie Mellon was ranked #27 on College Factual's most recent list of the best schools for bio engineering majors. This puts the bachelor's program at the school solidly in the top 15% of all colleges and universities in the country. It is also ranked #3 in Pennsylvania.
Here are some of the other rankings for Carnegie Mellon.
During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time undergraduate students at Carnegie Mellon paid an average of $800 per credit hour. No discount was available for in-state students. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $57,560 | $57,560 |
Fees | $925 | $925 |
Books and Supplies | $1,000 | $1,000 |
On Campus Room and Board | $15,550 | $15,550 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $1,400 | $1,400 |
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One way to think about how much a school will cost is to look at how much in student loans that you have to take out to get your degree. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at Carnegie Mellon in Bio Engineering walked away with an average of $21,500 in student debt. That is 2% lower than the national average of $22,046.
bio engineering who receive their bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon make an average of $69,338 a year during the early days of their career. That is 24% higher than the national average of $56,061.
Online degrees for the Carnegie Mellon bio engineering bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Carnegie Mellon Online Learning page.
Women made up around 78.6% of the bio engineering students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 49.9%.
Around 52.4% of bio engineering bachelor’s degree recipients at Carnegie Mellon in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 39%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 11 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 7 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 16 |
International Students | 3 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 4 |
Biomedical Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering | 42 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to biomedical engineering.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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General Engineering | 26 |
Chemical Engineering | 40 |
Civil Engineering | 25 |
Electrical Engineering | 140 |
Mechanical Engineering | 130 |
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*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.