Graduate Program.About the Program
Duke BME Graduate Program
Consistently ranked one of the top biomedical engineering programs in the country, Duke BME prepares graduates to be leaders in industry and academia. Our graduate program engages students early in research, broadens exposure to the discipline, fosters leadership and mentoring skills, offers opportunities for outside internships, and most of all provides an intellectually stimulating research experience.
Why Duke?
Groundbreaking research.
Visit our research section for information on Duke's core research programs, facilities, and faculty researchers - and browse our graduate student profiles to check out student research. You can also search for a particular area of interest.
Excellent mentors.
Duke BME's unique advisory system builds strong mentoring relationships between students and our award-winning faculty.
Close ties with a world-class medical center.
Duke BME enjoys close collaborations with basic science and clinical researchers at top-ranked Duke University Medical Center - which is located just across the street.
Connections with industry.
Duke BME students have a wealth of internship opportunities at internationally respected biotech firms in nearby Research Triangle Park. Over the past decade, more than 50 grad students have participated in internships with such companies as Siemens Medical Systems, Boehringer Mannheim, Genentech, Genetronics, Glaxo Wellcome, Guidant, and Medtronics.
High-quality, low cost living.
Duke BME students study in a collegial atmosphere, with time for both work and play. Outside of school, they benefit from the low cost of living in Durham, consistently rated one of the country's best places to live.
A record of success.
Since 1972, Duke BME has produced leaders in both industry and academics.
Graduate Students in the News
May 10, 2009
Duke University awarded degrees to 523 undergraduate and graduate engineering students on May 10 in ceremonies beginning with a university-wide commencement celebration in Wallace Wade Stadium and ending with a Pratt School of Engineering ceremony in Duke Chapel.
Pratt Dean Tom Katsouleas Bachelor of Science in Engineering diplomas to 279 students, including 12 who completed their work in December and one last September, before a crowd of parents, relatives and friends in the Chapel.
Pratt also awarded ...
April 22, 2009
Jon Kuniholm lost part of his right arm as the result of a roadside bombing in Iraq in 2005. Since that time, the retired Marine Corps officer has been researching new designs for functional limb prostheses as a doctoral student in biomedical engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering.
As a vet and as a researcher -- he’s also co-founder of a company working on arm prostheses -- he was interviewed recently by the CBS program ...
November 10, 2008
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering challenges college students in the U.S. to create a video and an essay in response to this question: Which of the 14 grand challenges identified by the National Academy of Engineering would you choose to address, and how would you do it?
The National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges (http://www.engineeringchallenges.org) has identified 14 critical barriers to a sustainable way of life. They represent problems that will require ...
May 19, 2008
Welcome mothers and happy Mother's Day, thank you for all that you do. Welcome fathers thanks for your part in making Mother's Day possible.
Welcome Pratt Class of 2008. It has been a long road and we have reached the end of this journey in what seems like much less time than anticipated. Although our parents were certainly focused on getting to the destination on time and on budget, we were more focused on what interesting ...
May 8, 2008
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has received a gift of $5 million from an anonymous donor to establish a new undergraduate curriculum that will encourage students to think critically about problems that lack obvious solutions, like those they will encounter after graduation, President Richard H. Brodhead announced Wednesday.
The planned curriculum will be open to undergraduates from all majors.
“Duke’s strategic plan, ‘Making a Difference,’ calls for investments in programs that help students ...
April 21, 2008
Two years after receiving prestigious fellowships designed to support women scientists, three Pratt graduate students are well into their research with such diverse projects as brain-computer interfaces, nanoparticle exposures and a new method for breast cancer screening.
In 2006, Katie Hedlund, Christine Robichaud and Christina Shafer were named Clare Boothe Luce Fellows. The fellowship program is the largest such private program for women studying science, mathematics or engineering. More than 1,500 women scientists have received support ...
April 2, 2008
DURHAM, N.C. -- Three Duke University students have been selected for Goldwater Scholarships in science, mathematics and engineering for the 2008-09 academic year.They were among 321 sophomores and juniors chosen on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,035 mathematics, science and
engineering students nationwide. Three of Duke’s four nominees were selected. The award provides up to $7,500 toward annual tuition and expenses.
Duke’s Goldwater Scholars are Mark Hallen, Nicholas Patrick and engineering student Daniel ...
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