MSc Biomedical Engineering at Swansea University

A master's applying engineering techniques to understand biomedical systems and develop devices that interact with them, across scales from populations and the human body to cells and nanoparticles. It combines analytical and experimental approaches with hands-on data acquisition and analysis, and serves as a conversion route for graduates of other engineering or related disciplines.

Faculty: Science and Engineering  |  Department: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  |  Duration: 1 year full-time  |  Intake: September  |  Location: Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

What you will study

Compulsory modules are Image-based Biomaterial Fabrication and Biomechanical Testing, Principles of Nanomedicine, Sustainable and Societal Engineering, Research Methods and the Medical Physics Specialties and a 60-credit dissertation, with options such as Simulation Based Design, Implant and Tissue Engineering, Medical Imaging and Informatics, and Complex Fluids and Microfluidic Systems.

Career pathways

Graduates are prepared for medical device development, healthcare innovation and research roles such as biomedical engineer, clinical engineer or scientist, prosthetic design engineer and bioinstrumentation engineer, with destinations including Renishaw, Olympus Surgical Technologies, GE Healthcare, the NHS and the Royal Navy.

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