Undergraduate Student Outcomes

Know Where You’re Going, Well Before Graduation

After four years with us, you’ll have learned a lot. How to work in diverse teams. How to apply technical know-how. How to succeed after failure. But perhaps most importantly, you’ll have discovered a lot about your purpose. Understanding their purpose means that most of our graduates know where they’re heading after graduation, well before putting on the mortarboard and shaking hands with the dean.

Duke Engineering students toss caps in the air at graduation

Ready to Make an Impact

As they get ready to graduate, we ask our students about their life and career plans. Here’s what our 2023 grads had to say:

63%

expected to be working for pay by the fall

4 out of 5

of those planning to work for pay had a job or job offers by graduation

48%

planned to attend graduate or professional school in the fall

Recent Industry Employers

  • The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • Edwards Lifesciences
  • Google
  • Medtronic
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific

Recent Graduate & Professional Schools

  • Harvard Medical School
  • Cambridge University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Stanford Law School

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Impacting Pediatric Eye Care Around the World

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Objectives & Outcomes

We expect that, a few years after graduation, graduates of our program will be on track to become leaders in corporate, professional, and academic communities.

    • Advance in their careers in biomedical engineering or related areas of industry, academia and medicine
    • Engage in life-long learning, for example, by enrolling in graduate or professional degree programs or receiving advanced training for professional advancement
    • Utilize their engineering experience in creating new knowledge or enabling technologies for improvement of human health and health care
    • Understand the social and ethical implications of their work

  • Our students will have the following capabilities upon completion of their degrees:

    1. An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
    2. An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
    3. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
    4. An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
    5. An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
    6. An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions
    7. An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies

  • Additionally, our students will have these capabilities upon completion of their degrees:

    1. An understanding of biology and physiology
    2. The capability to apply advanced mathematics, science, and engineering to solve the problems at the interface of engineering and biology
    3. The capability to apply statistics to solve the problems at the interface of engineering and biology
    4. The ability to make measurements and interpret data from living systems
    5. The ability to address problems associated with the interaction between living and non-living materials and systems.

Enrollment & Graduation Rates

Academic YearTotal UndergraduatesDegrees Awarded
202429789 ◆
2023277102
202217867
202118293
202019790

Total undergraduates at the beginning of the fall semester. Degrees awarded are for the academic year, first major, only.

  • Does not include summer completions.
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