Biomedical Engineering

Overview

Biomedical Engineering as a highly interdisciplinary field it is currently leading the creation of the technological prerequisites for enabling the establishment of the modern precision or personalized medicine concepts.

University of Crete's Biomedical Engineering program seeks to capture these global megatrends by offering high level education in three major sectors:

• Biofabrication, Molecular Diagnostics and Therapy Module
• Βιο-Medical Imaging
• Medical Information Systems

Our program is flexible in the sense that it offers two graduation tracks, one with 90 credits and one with 120 credits. The first track is intended to educate graduate students willing to develop a carrier as biomedical engineers employed by industry/hospitals. The second track is designed to prepare graduate students willing to continue in a PhD program, through a research grade thesis conducted in one of the affiliated research labs.

Why Biomedical Engineering?

• Great employment opportunities: The US Department of Labor has ranked the bio-medical engineering profession as one of the top jobs with a projected growth rate of almost 27%. For comparison, the job growth rate for all other engineering jobs is 9%
• A pleasant job: “TIME” Magazine characterizes the work of Bio-Medical Engineer as a high-level work of low stress
• In a growing industry: By 2025 global medical technology revenue is expected to be around $ 2.69 trillion. The European Union has occupied an important position in the world biomedical technology market, accounting for 28% of the world market, while the European medical technology industry employs more than 650,000 people.
• Where innovation prevails: in 2015, more than 12,400 patent applications were filed with the European Patent Office (EPO) in the field of biomedical technology, which makes up 7.8% of the total number of applications and is the largest, as a percentage and absolute number, by any other field of Engineering.