Course summary
You'll spend a year working in an engineering, medical or healthcare company. This real-world experience gives you a competitive advantage in the jobs market once you graduate. Be at the forefront of the rapidly growing medical technology sector, learning to save and improve lives through this well-established course. Our team of industry experts and academics has been teaching at Sheffield for over a decade. They’ll show you how disciplines from across the field of engineering can be used to heal the human body. We teach you how to give people a healthier and more fulfilling life, using technology like tissue engineering, biotechnology, mechanics and robotics. The BEng offers flexibility to tailor your course to your interests. Your first year gives an introduction to bioengineering, at the end of which you’ll choose one of four specialisms for the rest of the course:
- Biomedical Engineering: use engineering principles to safeguard and enhance human health.
- Medical Devices and Systems: develop novel devices and improve clinical engineering systems.
- Biomaterials Science and Tissue Engineering: applying materials engineering and cell biology principles to repair damaged body tissues and organs.
- Biomanufacturing: apply chemical engineering and cell biology principles to the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and biologically active substances.
- Top 5 for bioengineering and biomedical engineering in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide - and one of the longest-running biomedical engineering departments in the country.
- Unique, state-of-the-art facilities - use unique biomedical spaces such as the bio mammalian and bio bacteria labs, along with the Microfabrication room, Electronics clean room and the Pilot Plant in The Diamond.
- Broadest choice of specialisms - from your second year, you can choose between four specialisms: Biomedical Engineering, Medical Devices and Systems, Biomaterials Science and Tissue Engineering, or Biomanufacturing.
- Global Engineering Challenge - join teams of students to solve engineering problems in developing countries – pushing you to develop you as a professional engineer and enhancing your career prospects.
How to apply
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
- Course code:
- H67H
- Institution code:
- S18
- Campus name:
- Main Site
- Campus code:
- -
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - Not accepted
A level - AAB
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DDD
Access to HE Diploma - D: 36 credits M: 9 credits
Scottish Higher - Not accepted
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DD
Scottish Advanced Higher - AB
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 34 points
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015) - B
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017) - H2, H2, H2, H2, H2, H3
To find out if you're eligible for additional consideration or an alternative offer, visit: ww.sheffield.ac.uk/undergraduate/apply/access-sheffield
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
English language requirements
You must demonstrate that your English is good enough for you to successfully complete your course. For this course we require: GCSE English Language at grade 4/C; IELTS grade of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each component; or an alternative acceptable English language qualification
English language requirements for undergraduates
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/undergraduate/apply/english-language
Student Outcomes
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Provider information
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
Course contact details
Visit our course pageInterdisciplinary Programmes in Engineering - Bioengineering
+44 (0)114 222 7876