Master’s Student Outcomes

Launch into a High-Impact Career

When our BME students complete their master’s degrees, they don’t leave Duke. They launch.

Our graduates accelerate from our forward-looking programs with wide-ranging connections and opportunities. During your studies, you’ll work 1:1 with a career coach and discover how far your purpose and drive can take you.

Graduates of our BME program have gone on to careers at elite academic institutions and at leading biotech firms.

Outcomes for Recent Grads

First reported outcome after 6 months for 2022 graduates

75%

employed full-time

15%

pursue further education

$86209

average annual salary

Select Job Titles

  • Design Engineer
  • Product Development Engineer
  • Quality Engineer
  • Research & Development Engineer

Select Industry Employers

  • Abbott Laboratories
  • Alphatec Spine
  • Boston Scientific
  • Dexcom
  • Edwards Lifesciences
  • Epic
  • GE Healthcare
  • Immorna Biotherapeutics 
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Medtronic
  • restor3d
  • Stryker
  • Siemens

Select Academic Institutions

  • Dartmouth College
  • Duke University
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Illinois
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Vanderbilt University

Meet Duke BME Alumni

9/24 Pratt School of Engineering

$25 Million Gift to Establish New STEM+ Scholars Program

The Karsh STEM+ Scholars Program will match undergraduate students who have declared majors in disciplines in the natural sciences, engineering, and STEM-related fields with faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.

Stacy Pineles
1/8 Pratt School of Engineering

Impacting Pediatric Eye Care Around the World

Dr. Stacy Pineles, a 2000 BME graduate, relies on her Duke Engineering foundations as an eye surgeon and the leader of an NIH-supported clinical trials network