How to Apply Download and Submit the provided Application Packet . The new BME graduate curriculum is based on an integration of life sciences, engineering and mathematics. The goal is to enable students to postulate and solve biomedical problems quantitatively and with a systems perspective. The BME Ph.D. degree will consist of two years of core courses that will establish the fundamental principles in both life science and engineering. All students entering the program, regardless of undergraduate major, will be integrated into the same classes and be subject to the same program prerequisites.
Diversity is one of the attributes of the program.
Problem-based learning in the first year will complement the Engineering and Life Science courses. During the second year, core material and problem-based learning will be integrated into the same course. During the second and third semesters, students will be required to do two lab rotations. Other requirements include a bioethics course, a teaching course, minimum of nine hours of technical electives, and a nine-hour minor program of study outside the student's thesis research area. Students will be awarded a joint Ph.D. degree upon successful completion of this final examination and dissertation acceptance by the Graduate Schools of Georgia Tech and Emory.