Bachelor of Engineering - Biomedical Engineering (BME) Major

Enhancing Health, Medicine and Quality of Life

Make Your Degree Work for You

Innovate engineering principles and technologies to design ways of improving human and animal health and quality of life, through the study of anatomy, physiology and human kinetics, and more.

Choose Your Area of Focus

Elective concentrations are available in the areas of biomechanics, biosignal processing, and pharmaceuticals. The program is built around the concept of interdisciplinary application of engineering principles to health-related problems.

Build Your Engineering Career Foundation

Our graduates in Biomedical engineering apply mathematical, scientific and engineering principles to a wide variety of fields and find employment across the private and public sectors of the healthcare industry.

Why Biomedical Engineering?

The growing field of Biomedical Engineering fuses engineering design and problem-solving to improve human health. As a student and graduate of Biomedical Engineering – you will be on the cutting edge of medical innovation and advancements in human health. From examining bio-systems from molecular to a full body scale to understanding what happens when something goes wrong, as in the case of injury or disease, Biomedical Engineering provides a diverse set of medical skills and experience and can also be an entry point into medical school.

Improve Living

Over 24,000 students learn at the University of Guelph every year. More than 800 faculty teach here every year. More than 1,800 research projects to improve life in a variety of capacities are currently underway.

Yet what the numbers don’t capture is how we live while we're here and after we leave. Our students, faculty and staff are engaged. They are passionate about being here. We are equally passionate about educating the whole person to shape better citizens of the world.

That has been our focus for over 150 years: life, living, always improving.

We Acknowledge

The University of Guelph resides on the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We recognize that today this gathering place is home to many First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and acknowledging them reminds us of our collective responsibility to the land where we learn and work.