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Biomedical engineering at Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech graduates about 50 biomedical engineering majors a year. That puts it 27th of 177 schools we score for biomedical engineering, a strong program at 78 out of 100. Research spending in the field runs about $23 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.

78/100Strong#27 of 177 for biomedical engineering →
Graduates a year50under 1% of the class
Research in the field$23Ma year, NSF
Admit rate55%whole school
SAT middle 50%1240–1430whole school

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Nearby in the biomedical engineering ranking

  1. Yale University 80
  2. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 80
  3. University of Southern California 79
  4. University of Wisconsin–Madison 79
  5. University of Massachusetts–Amherst 78
  6. Dartmouth College 77
  7. University of California San Diego 77
  8. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 76

Other strong majors at Virginia Tech

How the score works

The score is out of 100 and compares Virginia Tech 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.

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