How Central Biomedical Engineering Is on Each Campus

Top 25 BME programs, sorted by BME’s share of bachelor’s degrees. Hover a bar for degree counts.

BME = CIP 14.05. Source: IPEDS Completions, FY2022-FY2024, as compiled in the College Transitions 2026 Biomedical Engineering Ranking.

Rank	Institution	BME share	BME degrees	All bachelor’s
7	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	10.4%	361	3,455
2	Johns Hopkins University	7.3%	310	4,215
9	Case Western Reserve University	7.1%	279	3,926
4	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	6.4%	819	12,818
18	Stevens Institute of Technology	6.1%	167	2,748
17	California Institute of Technology	5.5%	38	686
12	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	5.0%	210	4,192
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4.4%	147	3,345
1	Duke University	3.9%	246	6,253
16	Lehigh University	3.1%	122	3,888
13	University of Rochester	3.0%	165	5,543
21	Drexel University	2.9%	288	9,955
10	Boston University	2.8%	379	13,798
11	Vanderbilt University	2.7%	145	5,390
5	University of Virginia-Main Campus	2.6%	344	13,238
8	Northwestern University	2.4%	153	6,432
19	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	2.3%	448	19,575
20	Stanford University	2.3%	114	5,002
6	University of Pennsylvania	1.8%	155	8,468
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	1.6%	391	24,607
23	University of California-Irvine	1.6%	396	25,338
15	University of California-San Diego	1.2%	310	26,329
22	Cornell University	1.1%	128	11,447
24	University of Southern California	1.1%	181	16,443
25	University of California-Los Angeles	0.7%	202	28,030