Biomedical engineering at Rice
Rice graduates about 32 biomedical engineering majors a year, 3% of its graduating class. That puts it 11th of 177 schools we score for biomedical engineering, a standout program at 87 out of 100. Graduates in the major earn a median $121,000 four years out, 1.27× what the same major pays nationally. Research spending in the field runs about $57 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.
Around Rice
Where biomedical engineering happens
Buildings on campus that fit the field: Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen, Facilities, Engineering and Planning Building, Abercrombie Engineering Laboratory, Ryon Engineering Laboratory, M.D. Anderson Biology Laboratories, BioScience Research Collaborative.
Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 48 · Dorm 21 · Dining 9 · Athletics 4 · Offices 1 · Library 1.
Nearby in the biomedical engineering ranking
Other strong majors at Rice
- Computer science 95 · #21
- Math & statistics 95 · #16
- Economics 94 · #21
- Chemistry & biochem 93 · #10
- Languages 93 · #26
- English & writing 92 · #25
How the score works
The score is out of 100 and compares Rice with every school we score in biomedical engineering. It weighs what graduates earn four years out against the same major nationally (25%), research spending in the field (20%, NSF), how many undergraduate courses the department lists (20%), the student body's test scores (20%) and the size of the program (15%, capped so size alone can't win). 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.