Ph.D. in Bioengineering

The doctor of philosophy in bioengineering prepares students for bioengineering careers in industry, government, or academia. An advanced degree in this area provides numerous opportunities to work in health care, the biomedical industry, government regulatory agencies, and academia. At CU Denver, you’ll work with top faculty and researchers in the field, with a choice of training pathways in basic research, clinical applications, or commercialization of medical technologies.

The Department of Bioengineering is the first of its kind in Colorado. As a dual-campus program, shared between CU Denver and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, the bioengineering program provides unprecedented instructional resources in bioengineering and research opportunities in health sciences. Students can interact with clinicians and engineers and perform research or medical device design in world-class hospitals and CU School of Medicine clinical research labs.

The College of Engineering, Design, and Computing at the University of Colorado Denver is transforming engineering education, pointing it to tomorrow’s technologies and industries with a student-centered focus on developing the engineer of the future.

We are committed to creating impactful experiences for all students and providing them with a combination of:

• Deep engineering disciplinary strength
• Proficiency using contemporary design and computing-enabled technology to formulate and create solutions to complex, open-ended interdisciplinary problems with considerable ambiguity and industry relevance, and;
• Exceptional social and human skills, including creativity, professionalism, global and cultural perspective, ability to continually learn in a world of accelerating change, and overall ambition and confidence.