MS Bioengineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

Programme overview

The MS in Bioengineering is an interdisciplinary master's drawing on eight academic units in the Colleges of Engineering, Computing and Design. It requires 30 credit hours under a non-thesis or a thesis option with a minimum 3.0 GPA.

Department: Interdisciplinary Bioengineering (Colleges of Engineering, Computing and Design) | Study mode: full-time | Location: Atlanta, GA, United States

What you will study

Non-thesis students take 30 hours of coursework (engineering fundamentals 6-9, biological sciences 6-9, engineering mathematics 3, technical electives 12); thesis students take 21 coursework hours plus 9 thesis hours. Sample courses include CS 7641 Machine Learning, BIOL 6570 Immunology, BMED 6720 Biotransport and BMED 6794 Tissue Engineering.

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Application information

Entry requirements

International applicants (Georgia Tech graduate admissions): TOEFL iBT overall 4.5 with Reading, Listening and Writing at least 4 and Speaking at least 3.5 under the scoring used from January 2026 (earlier scale: 90 overall, 19 per section), or IELTS Academic 7 overall with at least 6.5 in Reading, Listening and Speaking and 5.5 in Writing; scores are valid for two years, Duolingo is not accepted, and applicants with a degree from a regionally accredited US institution or an English-medium or approved-country degree can be exempt; individual programmes may set higher scores.

Requirements published at faculty level.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Graduate applications use one online graduate application (gradapp.gatech.edu) for all programmes and campuses; deadlines vary by programme and are published on each programme page.

Apply through the official page: https://grad.gatech.edu/

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