What are the requirements for admission to the BME program?
The general requirements for admission to the Ph.D., M.S., or M.E. programs include a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, GRE General Test scores, a completed application packet with short essay and letters of recommendation. TOEFL scores are required for international students whose first language is not English. Qualified applicants who are deficient in certain prerequisites may be admitted with the expectation that they will remedy the deficiencies during the master’s program. Prerequisite courses include introductory chemistry and biology, physics (two semesters based on calculus), mathematics through differential equations and computer programming (Matlab, C++ or Java). You may find it helpful to know that a typical entering class of graduate students has average GRE scores over 1350 (verbal + quantitative) and an average undergraduate GPA above 3.5 on a 4-point scale. For students whose first language is not English, TOEFL scores of 250 computer-based/600-
