BME at a Glance
Facts and Stats About Duke BME
Mission
Duke BME provides an outstanding educational and research environment to train engineers who go on to profoundly impact industry and medicine.
Rankings
- #1 in the country for undergraduate BME majors in the 2014 College Factual rankings (USA Today)
- #3 in the country for undergraduate BME major in the 2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings
- #3 among doctoral biomedical engineering programs by the National Research Council
- #6 in the country in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report Graduate School Rankings
- Pratt is listed in Top 10 Graduate Engineering Programs Popular with Women (U.S. News & World Report)
Size
BME is the second largest graduate program at Duke, the seventh-largest undergraduate major, and the largest undergraduate major in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke.
Department at a Glance
- 33 tenured/tenure-track faculty
- $27M in new research awards in fiscal year 2016
- 298 undergraduate students
- 181 PhD students
- 30 MS students
- 33 MEng students
- 101 BSE graduates in 2015-2016 (May graduates, BME first major only)
- 2 NIH pre-doctoral training grants: Medical Imaging (Nightingale, PI) and Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (Gersbach, PI)
- 8 companies launched by Duke BME faculty
Centers and Institutes
BME faculty participate in the following centers and institutes:
- Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE)
- Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (RT-MRSEC)
- Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics (FIP)
- Duke MEDx
- Duke Cancer Institute (DCI)
- Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology
- Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI)
- Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS)
- Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization (CERC)
- Center for Global Women's Health Technologies
- Center for the Study of Neurodevelopment and Improving Children’s Health Following Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure (NiCHES)