Course summary

You’ll have the opportunity to spend a year gaining hands-on work experience in an engineering, medical, or healthcare company, providing invaluable real-world insights. This course also offers an integrated master’s qualification, with advanced topics and a specialised research project in your fourth year, helping you gain a competitive edge with leading employers. The course prepares you to be at the forefront of the rapidly growing medical technology sector, developing your skills and knowledge to create innovative solutions that can save and improve lives. Our team of industry experts and academics has been teaching at Sheffield for over a decade. They’ll guide you in applying engineering principles from across the field to improve human health, using cutting-edge technologies like tissue engineering, biotechnology, and robotics to enhance quality of life. In your first year, you’ll gain a solid foundation in bioengineering before choosing a specialism to focus on for the remainder of the course, tailoring your studies to your interests and career goals. You can choose to special is the below topics:

• Biomedical Engineering: use engineering principles to help safeguard and enhance human health.

• Medical Devices and Systems: develop novel devices and improve clinical engineering systems.

• Biomaterials Science and Tissue Engineering: apply materials engineering and cell biology principles to repair damaged body tissues and organs.

• Biomanufacturing: apply chemical engineering and cell biology principles to the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other biologically active substances.

• Number one for teaching on my course: We are ranked number one in the Russell Group for teaching on my course in the subject of bioengineering, medical, and biomedical engineering (National Student Survey 2024).

• Unique, state-of-the-art facilities: You’ll work in specialised biomedical spaces, including the Bio Mammalian and Bio Bacteria labs, as well as advanced areas like the Microfabrication room, Electronics Cleanroom, and the Pilot Plant in The Diamond building.

• 4th in the UK for bioengineering and biomedical engineering: Ranked in the top 5 for bioengineering and biomedical engineering (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025).

• Broad choice of specialisms: From your second year you can choose between four specialisms: Biomedical Engineering, Medical Devices and Systems, Biomaterials Science and Tissue Engineering, or Biomanufacturing. This flexibility allows you to tailor your degree to your interests and career goals, equipping you with expertise in a specific area and broadening your career prospects in the diverse field of biomedical engineering.

• Global Engineering Challenge: Join teams of students to solve engineering problems in developing countries, pushing you to develop you as a professional engineer and enhancing your career prospects.