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Develop the problem-solving skills, multi-disciplinary understanding and technical expertise to help you shape the future of healthcare and well-being.
Our BEng (Hons) Biomedical Engineering degree offers the chance to harness engineering principles to tackle medical issues. For technical thinkers and born problem solvers, it’s a degree that offers the practical skills and cutting-edge understanding to pursue a future in a highly specialised field.
From start to finish, it’s a degree with a hands-on approach: with us, you’ll learn by doing. Even in the first few weeks, you’ll tackle a team-based design-and-build challenge to help you get settled into the subject. Then, at the end of each year, you’ll finish off with a major project – your chance to turn learning into action.
Along the way, you’ll explore a range of topics – from key engineering concepts, design techniques and digital manuf...
3 years full-time
4 years with placement
4 years with foundation year
Dr Glen West“Our biomedical engineering programme taps into a growing need within the sector for highly skilled and capable engineering practitioners who can apply the latest technologies to enable transformative care and support for healthcare, rehabilitation and enhanced living. The course offers students a focused and applied framework of study, blending biomedical science and engineering theory with hands-on learning, to work towards a clear goal to positively impact health, wellbeing and quality of life throughout society.”
Reader in Advanced Materials and Surface Engineering
Biomedical engineering is absolutely central to the future of medicine. It’s the specialism behind some of the greatest leaps in treatment, diagnosis and rehabilitation, and this course offers you the chance to be part of the next generation. Few other subjects offer such a direct route from technological innovation to human impact.
Our biomedical engineering degree programme offers an exciting opportunity to be part of that future. With a mix of skills and understanding that crosses disciplines – setting design and engineering skills in a biomedical and sport science context – this is a course that opens the doors to a rewarding career with impact on people’s health and well-being.
While it’s a subject rooted in complex theory and academic principle, it’s one you learn by stepping into the lab and getting to grips with real kit – by trying things, building things and doing things. With that mix of knowledge and skill, you’ll finish the course equipped to become a technical leader and partner in biomedical projects across a range of industries and public services.
With this degree, you can aim for a career working with the latest technical innovations in primary healthcare, enhancing performance and accessibility in sport, or even helping create the products that allow people to live safely, independently and sustainably in communities across the world. In short, you can look ahead to a future with real impact.
Whether you’ve already made your decision about what you want to study, or you’re just considering your options, there are lots of ways you can meet us and find out more about student life at Manchester Met.
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Your studies are supported by a department of committed and enthusiastic teachers and researchers, experts in their chosen field.
We often link up with external professionals too, helping to enhance your learning and build valuable connections to the working world.
These typical entry requirements may be subject to change for the 2025/26 academic year. Please check back for further details.
UK and Channel Islands full-time foundation year fee: £9,250 per year for the foundation year. This tuition fee is agreed subject to UK government policy and parliamentary regulation and may increase each academic year in line with inflation or UK government policy for both new and continuing students.
EU and Non-EU international full-time foundation year fee: £21,500 per year. When progressing from the pre-degree foundation year to the linked degree. Tuition fees will remain the same for each year of your course providing you complete it in the normal timeframe (no repeat years or breaks in study)
Full-time fee: £9,250 per year. This tuition fee is agreed subject to UK government policy and parliamentary regulation and may increase each academic year in line with inflation or UK government policy for both new and continuing students.
Full-time fee: £21,500 per year. Tuition fees will remain the same for each year of your course providing you complete it in the normal timeframe (no repeat years or breaks in study).
A degree typically comprises 360 credits, a DipHE 240 credits, a CertHE 120 credits, and an integrated masters 480 credits. The tuition fee for the placement year for those courses that offer this option is £1,850, subject to inflationary increases based on government policy and providing you progress through the course in the normal timeframe (no repeat years or breaks in study). The tuition fee for the study year abroad for those courses that offer this option is £1,385, subject to inflationary increases based on government policy and providing you progress through the course in the normal timeframe (no repeat years or breaks in study).
Optional estimate: £700
Students often choose to use their own laptop or tablet on campus, although there are PCs on campus and students can also borrow laptops. Students may need a smartphone or wireless device to participate in interactive class quizzes, etc. and a scientific calculator for in-class use.
All personal protection equipment (PPE) and laboratory and workshop consumables are provided by the Department of Engineering.
All reports, etc. for assessment are submitted as electronic files. Any additional costs associated with assessments, eg poster printing, components, models, etc. will be paid by the Department.
The costs of compulsory industry visits are paid by the Department of Engineering. Students may have to contribute to the cost of optional or social trips. Students are expected to cover the costs of attending placement interviews and any additional travel/accommodation costs incurred whilst on placements.
The Department of Engineering will cover the costs associated with student membership of one professional body. Students will be expected to contribute to the cost of any additional memberships or enhanced membership status, and to the cost of any optional professional accreditation courses in the use of software packages, etc.
Costs for student-led projects and supported extra-curricular competitions, etc., will be paid by the Department of Engineering, subject to approval of a business case submitted by the students under the supervision of academic staff. Artefacts built for projects normally remain the property of the department, but students may be offered the opportunity to purchase them for the cost of the materials used.
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Money MattersBiomedical engineering is a growth sector that offers a variety of career paths throughout the healthcare, rehabilitation and sports equipment industries. The core engineering skills and design techniques you’ll develop on the course open up even greater prospects, in a wider range of related occupations and associated fields.
When you graduate from the course, you will leave us equipped with an impressive range of transferrable skills – from problem solving to multi-disciplinary team working – opening doors to all sorts of sectors, including technology management, sales, insurance, finance, administration and government.
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We've invested £115m into cutting-edge facilities and advanced technology to enhance your learning. With a newly refurbished computing labs and interactive study spaces, this redevelopment has been built to prepare students for the modern workplace.
You can apply for the full-time option of this course through UCAS.
UCAS code(s)H740
Institution code: M40
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