Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) is among the world’s leaders in teaching, research and patient care, with 3,800 faculty and more than 15,000 full-time students, divided almost equally between undergraduate and graduate students. WashU’s graduate programs in medicine, engineering, social work, business, art, architecture and sciences are consistently highly ranked, including more than 30 programs ranked in the top 25 by US News & World Report.
The nationally-ranked Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at WashU strives to improve human well-being through advances in knowledge and technology. Graduate students in BME integrate the analytical, modeling and systems approaches of engineering to the complex —and sometimes overwhelming— descriptive details of biology.