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As a biomedical engineering student at USD, you'll combine engineering and medical sciences to create solutions for healthcare challenges. You'll discover numerous hands-on learning experiences, ranging from collaborating with physicians to develop medical equipment to interning with leading local companies pioneering disease treatments. Our curriculum offers extensive opportunities both inside and outside the classroom to prepare you for careers in biotechnology, engineering, medical studies, public policy, and beyond. This field shows strong employment growth potential as global demographics shift toward an aging population that requires innovative medical solutions.
Learn to address urgent healthcare issues while building practical experience
The professional skills you develop through internships will provide you with distinctive advantages when you enter the workforce after completing your degree.
Research education focuses on engineering biological materials capable of restoring or substituting impaired tissues and combating serious illnesses. We feature cutting-edge research equipment and are establishing the Aseptic Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Production & Training Center, which will allow students and their faculty mentors to advance their research from laboratory discoveries to clinical applications.