2024 Best Biomedical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

If you plan on getting your master's degree in biomedical engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #57 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for biomedical engineering students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 205 master's degrees in biomedical engineering to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Biomedical Engineering School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of biomedical engineering for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality bio engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to biomedical engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other biomedical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for biomedical engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized biomedical engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for biomedical engineering students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Biomedical Engineering Schools

The bio engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Biomedical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Biomedical Engineering in Pennsylvania

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in biomedical engineering.

Top Pennsylvania Schools for a Master's in Bio Engineering

1

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

35 Annual Graduates

$71,023 Median Starting Salary

Carnegie Mellon University is a great option for students pursuing a master's degree in biomedical engineering. Carnegie Mellon is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Pittsburgh.

Those biomedical engineering students who get their master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University earn $3,348 more than the average bio engineering grad.

More information about a master’s in biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University

2

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

62 Annual Graduates

$65,323 Median Starting Salary

It's hard to beat University of Pennsylvania if you wish to pursue a master's degree in biomedical engineering. UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia.

Students who graduate with their master's from the bio engineering program state that they receive average early career earnings of $65,323.

More information about a master’s in biomedical engineering from University of Pennsylvania

3

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, PA

13 Annual Graduates

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus is a great option for students pursuing a master's degree in biomedical engineering. Pitt is a very large public university located in the city of Pittsburgh.More information about a master’s in biomedical engineering from University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

4

Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

54 Annual Graduates

$66,680 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in biomedical engineering has to look into Drexel University. Drexel is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia.

Students who graduate with their master's from the bio engineering program report average early career wages of $66,680.

More information about a master’s in biomedical engineering from Drexel University

5

Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA

4 Annual Graduates

Lehigh is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Bethlehem.More information about a master’s in biomedical engineering from Lehigh University

6

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

11 Annual Graduates

Temple is a very large public university located in the city of Philadelphia.More information about a master’s in biomedical engineering from Temple University

7

Widener University
Chester, PA

8 Annual Graduates

Located in the large suburb of Chester, Widener is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a master’s in biomedical engineering from Widener University

8

Wilkes University
Wilkes-Barre, PA

3 Annual Graduates

Located in the small city of Wilkes-Barre, Wilkes is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a master’s in biomedical engineering from Wilkes University

Best Biomedical Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Biomedical Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	402
Maryland	193	162
New Jersey	188	87
District of Columbia	154	32
Delaware	109	4

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Rankings in Majors Related to Bio Engineering

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Biomedical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Bio Engineering Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering	205

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	609
Mechanical Engineering	415
Computer Engineering	306
Civil Engineering	184
Systems Engineering	142
Chemical Engineering	132
Robotics Engineering	102
Industrial Engineering	98
Materials Engineering	93
Other Engineering	63

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to UC Davis College of Engineering. More about our data sources and methodologies.