Our courses help you to apply core engineering principles and knowledge to create technical solutions to real-world clinical-problems.
We offer different ways to study including full-time undergraduate and postgraduate courses, short courses for continuing professional development and distance learning.
We also have a long history in international outreach, being renowned world-wide for our research and educational programmes for over 40 years.
Undergraduate courses
BSc Honours in Prosthetics & Orthotics
Our four-year BSc Honours in Prosthetics & Orthotics qualifies you to register with the Health Professions Council as a ‘prosthetist / orthotist'. We are the only undergraduate programme in Scotland, one of three UK programmes and the only UK programme accredited by the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics.
Find out more about our BSc (Hons) Prosthetics & Orthotics
BEng/MEng in Biomedical Engineering
We offer a four year (BEng) or a five year (MEng) degree in biomedical engineering. These are cross-subject programmes that will enable you to apply core mechanical and electrical engineering knowledge to real-world clinical problems.
Read more about our BEng Biomedical Engineering or MEng Biomedical Engineering
Postgraduate taught courses
Our postgraduate taught programmes will allow you to play a vital role in the development of innovative research, enjoy expert facilities and have the opportunity to network with industrialists, academic experts and clinical partners.
MSc Programmes
One of the world's longest-running programmes of its type, our MSc Biomedical Engineering programme is designed for ambitious graduates from across life sciences or engineering backgrounds. It equips our new graduates with knowledge of core biomedical engineering principles, before applying this learning to the development of advanced skills and knowledge necessary to go on to help address some of the most pressing challenges in health. With the selection of specialist modules and research projects, students can decide to pursue the traditional programme or one of the recently launched, specialist versions of this programme immediately below:
- MSc Biomedical Engineering with Biofluid Mechanics
- MSc Biomedical Engineering with Biomechanics
- MSc Biomedical Engineering with Cell and Tissue Engineering
- MSc Biomedical Engineering with Healthcare Artificial Intelligence
- MSc Biomedical Engineering with Medical Devices
- Prosthetics & Orthotics
- MSc/PgDip/PgCert Prosthetic & Orthotic Rehabilitation Studies (distance learning)
Postgraduate research degrees
PhD & MPhil
PhD/MPhil Biomedical Engineering
You can study for a degree in biomedical engineering within any of our three major research areas:
- Rehabilitation Engineering
- Cell, Tissue & Organ Engineering
- Medical Diagnostic Devices & Instrumentations
MRes
Continuing professional development/short courses
We're committed to sharing our unique knowledge and experience with the wider community.
We have developed a number of short courses to meet the professional development needs of the biomedical community, including those in the clinical, academic and commercial sectors.These courses are of value to physicians, surgeons, therapists and clinical scientists as well as prosthetists and orthotists.
Find out more about short courses.
International programmes
There's opportunities to take part in visits and exchanges with leading research institutions. This year staff and students have been to institutions in Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and the USA.
Established research programmes are in place with partner institutions in the USA, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, including:
- Sino-UK Research Partnership for PhD Studies between the Universities of Strathclyde, UK, and Beihang University, Beijing, China
We welcome enquiries from international research and teaching institutions and companies about our educational programmes, including staff and student exchanges. Please get in touch with Prof. Will Shu.