Postgraduate Taught

Biomedical Engineering

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Understand how the human body works and how to apply engineering skills to solve medical and healthcare challenges on our Masters degree.
Our programme is multi-accredited including IMechE, IET and IPEM. You’ll also graduate on the path to Chartered Engineer status.
You’ll get to work with a range of equipment from micro-CT scans to 3D printers and access our industry-standard mechanical engineering lab.
Our biomedical engineering research informs our teaching and aims to solve medical challenges.
You’ll enhance your lab and research skills including the chance to work on real-world projects.
The biomedical engineering field is a worldwide industry worth hundreds of billions of pounds – you’ll graduate with the skills to succeed in a broad range of roles and sectors.
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Biomedical science students examining a petri dish
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Develop the specialist knowledge and skills you need to enhance patients’ quality of life and improve healthcare.

An ageing population combined with a continuous drive to improve quality and equality of care means increased pressure on the healthcare system and budgets. The demand for qualified biomedical engineers who can create and deliver healthcare solutions and technology is greater now than ever before.

Taught by research-active staff, you’ll explore how the human body works and how to apply engineering skills to solve medical and healthcare challenges.

  • Work on real-world research

    with leaders in the field

  • ISO-accredited lab

    means our work reaches industry standards

  • IMechE, IET and IPEM accredited

    degree

  • Taught by research-active staff

    for the best learning experience

  • Strong links with industry

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About this course

With first-hand experience of medical device development, we’ll mentor you as you implement your ideas. We’ll take you through every step of the process. From concept design and material selection, through to analysis and optimisation, and regulatory approval.

You’ll enhance your lab skills, carrying out physical testing on biomaterials and learning industry-standard techniques in medical image analysis and processing for modelling purposes. Build your research skills though a project of your choice. And consider sustainable approaches in creating solutions, along with cultural, equality, and health and safety responsibilities.

Our biomedical engineering research aims to solve clinical challenges and reaches industry standards with our ISO accreditation. The broad expertise of our research-active lecturers informs our teaching and stretches across the medical engineering spectrum - from macro level to micro scale. Our strong relationships with industry give you opportunities to work on real-world research and hear from guest speakers in the sector.

You’ll graduate with the skills to succeed in the biomedical industry – a sector that’s worth hundreds of billions of pounds globally.

Choose your modules

For a full Masters degree, you'll study 180 credits over the duration of your course. Some programmes offer a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) qualification or a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) qualification. For a PGDip, you'll study 120 credits, and for a PGCert, you'll study 60 credits.

Individual Project

This module gives you the opportunity to carry out an individual design or research and development project. It is an opportunity to gain a wider perspective of society and sustainability, while exploring project management techniques and presentation of progress, milestones and results through a variety of media.​

Core60 credits

Research Skills and Project Planning

This module provides you with the skills to plan and conduct an academic or industry-based research project. These skills will be essential for you to work on your own project that you will undertake over the summer. 

Core20 credits

Advanced Biomaterials and Orthopaedic Devices

Explore key structural biological materials in the human body and the biomedical materials currently available to the medical engineer for implantation in the body. Consideration of the design and development processes of orthopaedic devices to replace or augment damaged or diseased body parts is also explored.

Compulsory20 credits

Tissue Mechanics and Mechanobiology: Materials, Modelling and Adaptation

Materials of the natural world around us are multifunctional, heterogeneous, highly adapted and highly optimised over millions of years. Knowledge of their structure and properties, as well as methods for testing their performance are a prerequisite for understating the world around us, and for the design of new man-made materials, and for material substitutes.

Compulsory20 credits

Medical Device Development and Cardiovascular Devices

Explore the regulatory requirements and processes that must be followed to meet current medical device directives and obtain device certification, such as the CE mark. 

Compulsory20 credits

Musculoskeletal Modelling

You will gain theoretical knowledge and practical experience that allow you to undertake complex biomechanical analyses using OpenSim musculoskeletal modelling software.

Optional20 credits

Medical Imaging, Processing and Analysis

You'll become familiar with the use of professional image processing systems and the full workflow from image acquisition to interpretation in a range of imaging modalities.

Optional20 credits
7 Modules

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Entry requirements

What do I need?

Typical offer
2:2 in relevant subject area

Applicants should have an Honours degree (typically 2.2 or above, or international equivalent) in an engineering or related discipline.

If you’re an undergraduate student at Hull, you’re guaranteed a fast-track route to this postgraduate degree, as long as you meet the entry requirements.

In order to ensure our students have a rich learning and student experience, most of our programmes have a mix of domestic and international students. We reserve the right to close applications early to either group if application volumes suggest that this blend cannot be achieved.

What do I need?

Typical offer
2:2 in relevant subject area

Applicants should have an Honours degree (typically 2.2 or above, or international equivalent) in an engineering or related discipline.

If you require a student visa to study or if your first language is not English you will be required to provide acceptable evidence of your English language proficiency level.

This course requires academic IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 5.5 in each skill. See other English language proficiency qualifications accepted by the University of Hull.

If your English currently does not reach the University’s required standard for this programme, you may be interested in one of our English language courses.

Visit your country page to find out more about our entry requirements.

Fees & funding

How much is it?

Additional costs you may have to pay

Your tuition fees will cover most costs associated with your programme. There are some extra costs that you might have to pay, or choose to pay, depending on your programme of study and the decisions you make:

  • Books (you can borrow books on your reading lists from the library, but you may buy your own)
  • Optional field trips
  • Study abroad (incl. travel costs, accommodation, visas, immunisation)
  • Placement costs (incl. travel costs and accommodation)
  • Student visas (international students)
  • Laptop (you’ll have access to laptops and PCs on campus, but you may want your own)
  • Printing and photocopying
  • Professional-body membership
  • Graduation (gown hire and photography)

Remember, you’ll still need to take into account your living costs. This could include accommodation, travel, food and more.

How do I pay for it?

How much is it?

Additional costs you may have to pay

Your tuition fees will cover most costs associated with your programme. There are some extra costs that you might have to pay, or choose to pay, depending on your programme of study and the decisions you make:

  • Books (you can borrow books on your reading lists from the library, but you may buy your own)
  • Optional field trips
  • Study abroad (incl. travel costs, accommodation, visas, immunisation)
  • Placement costs (incl. travel costs and accommodation)
  • Student visas (international students)
  • Laptop (you’ll have access to laptops and PCs on campus, but you may want your own)
  • Printing and photocopying
  • Professional-body membership
  • Graduation (gown hire and photography)

Remember, you’ll still need to take into account your living costs. This could include accommodation, travel, food and more.

How do I pay for it?

Our scholarships

We offer a number of awards, bursaries and scholarships for eligible students. They’re awarded for a variety of reasons including academic achievement and/or to help those on lower incomes.

Scholarships and bursaries are separate to student loans. And the best bit is, you don’t pay a penny back.

Find out more about our scholarships

Alumni Postgraduate Scholarship

University of Hull undergraduates progressing to a taught masters course may receive a 25% discount on the cost of their tuition fees.

Find out if you’re eligible by visiting the University of Hull Alumni Postgraduate Scholarship page.

International Scholarships and Bursaries

We offer a range of scholarships and bursaries for international students.

To find out more and see if you're eligible, please visit the International Scholarships and Bursaries page.

Take a look at our facilities

Medical Engineering Lab

You could work with medical tech such as micro-CT scans, endoscopy, EMG, ECG and ultrasound; and test medical devices like prosthetics and orthotics in our ISO-accredited lab.

FabLab

You’ll have access to our FabLab – with the latest 3D printers, laser scanners, cutters, and CNC machines – where you can digitally fabricate models and prototypes.

Chemistry Teaching Laboratories

You could work with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) in our Chemistry Teaching Labs.

Brynmor Jones Library

Our seven-storey library is a superb learning space. As well as more than a million books, there’s a variety of study areas, over 400 open-access PCs and one amazing view.

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Future prospects

The medical engineering field is so broad that you can go on to a range of different careers in industry or academia.

You could go onto a PhD. Or work for medical device companies, regulatory bodies and consultancy companies. Potential future roles include design engineer, regulatory associate, academic researcher and clinical scientist.

You’ll also be graduating from a course with multiple accreditations including the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM). This programme meets, in part, the academic requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer.

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Your next steps

Like what you’ve seen? Then it’s time to apply.

Make your application online now, and our admissions team will get back to you as soon as possible to make you an offer.

Not ready to apply?

We regularly deliver virtual and on-campus events to help you discover your perfect postgraduate course, whether it’s a subject you already love or something completely different. Our events are an opportunity for you to chat to tutors and current students and find out about the career options a postgraduate degree could lead to.

All modules presented on this course page are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.

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