BME at a Glance

Duke BME at a Glance: Facts and Stats

Mission: Duke BME provides an outstanding educational and research environment to train engineers who go on to profoundly impact industry and medicine.

Rankings:

  • #3 among doctoral biomedical engineering programs by the National Research Council in 2011
  • #4 in the country in the 2010 U.S. News & World Report Graduate School Rankings
  • #2 in the country for undergraduate BME major by 2010 U.S. News & World Report
  • #1 biomedical engineering programs for faculty productivity by the Chronicle of Higher Education (2007) as evidenced by publications and citations

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:

  • 27 tenured or tenure track faculty
  • $22.3 M in research expenditures for fiscal year 2010
  • 156 Ph.D. students, 73% US, 36% women
  • 67 master's students
  • 118 B.S.E. undergraduate degrees, 2009-2010
  • 338 declared majors; 35% women, 10% international
  • 2 NIH pre-doctoral training grants: Medical Imaging (Trahey, PI) and Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (Reichert, PI)

Department faculty structure:    

  • 19 Professors
  • 4 Associate Professors
  • 4 Assistant Professors 
  • 4 Emeriti Professors
  • 8 Research Faculty
  • 2 Professors of the Practice
  • 1 Instructor
  • 27 Secondary Faculty

BME faculty participate in the following Centers and Institutes: