As a Biomedical Engineer, you’ll help create new technologies that improve disease diagnosis, find new and better ways of patient monitoring, revolutionise medical treatment and improve the quality of life for people with life-threatening or debilitating diseases and conditions.

You’ll gain the expertise to enact change in influential areas of human health, applying engineering principles to develop technologies and solutions in a range of healthcare-related fields that improve human lives, including:

• Medical devices
• Implantable bionics
• Drug-delivery system
• Medical imaging and radiotherapy
• Orthopaedic devices
• Robotic surgery
• Cell and tissue engineering
• Physical rehabilitation

This unique field brings together many engineering disciplines, including electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering and chemical engineering.

Designed for students with a medical, biological science, physical science or engineering background this degree consolidates and specialises your knowledge in biomedical engineering.

Key features:

The Master of Biomedical Engineering is a 1.7-year full-time or part-time equivalent, postgraduate degree offered at Australia’s leading engineering faculty.

This degree caters for students with either a medical/biological science or engineering/physical science background who want to further their education in this unique area. It is designed to apply engineering principles to developing technologies and problem solving in a diverse range of health care related fields.

Your degree will blend study in areas of engineering including electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering and chemical engineering. Combining these disciplines you’ll study a range of topics related to the applications of Biomedical Engineering

• Biomechanics
• Medical imaging
• Biomaterials
• Biosensors and transducers
• Technology modelling, design and analysis

Full program structure

The Master of Biomedical Engineering is a 1.7 year degree in which you will study a range of courses in the areas of:

• Biomechanics
• Medical imaging
• Biomaterials
• Biosensors and transducers
• Technology modelling, design and analysis
• Cellular and Tissue Engineering

The full list can be found on the UNSW Handbook.

At the end of your degree you may be eligible to take part in a Masters Project. This will allow you to experience research training either within the School or with collaborating institutions such as hospitals and CSIRO. Projects are selected by you in consultation with a supervisor conducting research in an area of interest to you.  

Biomedical engineers study across engineering, medicine and biology. This broad experience enables biomedical engineers to find employment in hospitals, government bodies, industry or academic areas. Specific industry sectors where you can grow your career include:

• Healthcare
• Social assistance
• Professional, scientific and technical services
• Wholesale trade
• Manufacturing

Roles completed by Biomedical Engineers include the design of medical instrumentation and prostheses; involvement in the development, manufacture and testing of medical products; and the management of technology in the hospital system. Our graduates have gone on to work for leading companies, including:

• ResMed
• Cochlear
• Philips
• Garvan Institute of Medical Research
• CSIRO

Admission to this program requires one of the following: 4-year Bachelor of Engineering degree with a minimum 65% average; or 4-year Bachelor degree in a biomedical health-related discipline

IELTS: 6.5 overall (min. 6.0 in each subtest)

TOEFL IBT (Internet Based): 90 overall (min. 23 in writing, 22 in reading, listening and speaking)

Pearson (PTE - Academic): 64 overall (min. 54 in each subtest)

C1 Advanced Cambridge: 176 overall (min. 169 in each subtest)

C2 Proficiency Cambridge: 180 overall (min. 180 in each subtest)

UNSW Global University English Entry Course (UEEC): Successful completion with a minimum overall grade of C+ and a minimum grade of C in the writing component.