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No. 4 & 2 Undergraduate & Graduate programs
U.S. News & World Report
1217
current enrolled undergraduates
  
263
current enrolled graduates
239
BS degrees
awarded in AY2018/2019
37
PhD degrees awarded in AY2018/2019

Georgia Tech and Emory Biomedical Engineering is a true success story in risk-taking and innovation - a visionary partnership between a leading public engineering school and a highly respected private medical school. View some 2016 stats and stories.

True to Wallace H. Coulter’s vision and legacy, our faculty and students work closely with clinicians to not only gain fundamental insights into human health and pathology, but also to translate our research to impact industry and medicine.

We have unique new research initiatives in Pediatric Bioengineering, Immunoengineering and Health Care Robotics that are potentially defining the future of BME and medicine.

 

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

  • More than 900 full-time instructional faculty
  • More than 23,000 graduate and undergraduate students
  • U.S. News & World Report ranks Georgia Tech as the No. 7 public university in the country
  • Among the top 10 in research expenditures among universities without a medical school
  • Produces more than 400 invention disclosures annually

THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

  • Largest and most diverse College of Engineering in the country
  • All graduate and undergraduate programs ranked in the top 10 nationally by U.S. News and World Report
  • More than 175 faculty members have received National Science Foundation CAREER awards​
  • No.1 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded overall to minority students
  • 29 active CoE faculty are members of the National Academy of Engineering
  • More than 100,000 alumni worldwide

EMORY UNIVERSITY

  • Top 20 medical schools in NIH research funding
  • School of Medicine is ranked among the nation’s finest institutions for education, biomedical research, and patient care.
  • More than 2400 full and part-time faculty and 679 volunteer faculty
  • Received more than $788 million based on commercialization of intellectual property, mostly in the health sciences over the last two decades.

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

  • Largest BME department in the country - 72 faculty, 1217 undergrads and 263 graduate students
  • Graduate program ranked #2 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report
  • Undergraduate program ranked #4 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report
  • The fall 2019 BME freshman class had 293 students, 55% of them are female
  • One of the highest NIH funded departments in the country
  • Only international graduate program with a public private university

Map of Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University

BME @ Emory

Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology &
Emory University School of Medicine

BME @ GT:
313 Ferst Drive, Room 2127 Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone: 404.385.0124 :: Fax: 404.894.4243

TEP @ GT:
387 Technology Circle NW Atlanta, GA 30313
Phone: 404.385.0124 :: Fax: 404.894.4243

BME @ Emory:
1760 Haygood Dr, Ste W 200 Atlanta, GA
30322-4250
Phone: 404.727.9874 :: Fax: 404.727.9873

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