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No. 1 & 3 Undergraduate & Graduate programs
U.S. News & World Report
1214
current enrolled undergraduates
  
223
current enrolled graduates
261
BS degrees
awarded in AY2016/2017
24
PhD degrees awarded in AY2016/2017

 

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, biomedical engineering faculty and students work closely with clinicians to not only gain fundamental insights into human health but also to translate our research to impact real-world problems.

 

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

  • Over 900 full-time instructional faculty
  • 23,000 graduate and undergraduate students
  • U.S. News & World Report ranks GT 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​
  • 1,226 research contracts and grants for a value of $190.1M in FY2016
  • 25 active CoE faculty are members of the National Academy of Engineering
  • Over 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.
  • 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, 1214 undergrads and 223 graduate students
  • Graduate program ranked #3 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report
  • Undergraduate program ranked #1 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report
  • The fall 2016 BME freshman class had 275 students, 60% 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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