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Program ranking · CIP 14.05 bachelor's · College Scorecard · Mar-Jul 2026 retrievals

Best Colleges for Biomedical Engineering

Using U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data retrieved March-July 2026, these colleges rank highest on median earnings for Biomedical Engineering (CIP 14.05) bachelor's completers. Rankings use earnings only - not prestige, selectivity, or editorial judgment - and require at least 25 completers so tiny suppressed cohorts do not dominate the list.

$126,419
Highest biomedical engineering earnings
97
Colleges ranked
$67,246
#97 cutoff

The list in one line

Every college on this list reports at least $67,246 median earnings for Biomedical Engineering bachelor's (CIP 14.05) completers. University of Pennsylvania leads at $126,419.

According to the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard.

$126,419
#1 - University of Pennsylvania
$67,246
#97 - the cutoff to make this list
25+
completers required per school
197
US schools offering this CIP

Earnings are field-of-study medians for federally aided completers who were working and not enrolled; see methodology for horizon and lag details.

Top 15 biomedical engineering programs by median completer earnings

Biomedical Engineering bachelor's (CIP 14.05) · higher is higher early-career pay

median earnings

What this shows Biomedical-engineering medians track device, hospital, and R&D employers - debt still matters when graduate school is common after the bachelor's.

Source U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard Field of Study As of Mar-Jul 2026 retrievals

The full top 97

# School Name StateMedian EarningsMedian DebtCompleters
1 University of Pennsylvania PA $126,419 $15,593 53
2 Rice University TX $121,099 - 34
3 Vanderbilt University TN $116,662 $15,000 50
4 University of California-Los Angeles CA $116,525 $14,500 64
5 Johns Hopkins University MD $114,673 $11,207 100
6 Tulane University of Louisiana LA $112,914 $22,500 32
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA $111,738 $13,000 47
8 University of California-Berkeley CA $110,597 $14,896 94
9 Carnegie Mellon University PA $109,648 - 65
10 University of Virginia-Main Campus VA $109,551 $18,400 127
11 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo CA $109,232 $20,500 104
12 California State University-Long Beach CA $106,540 $15,500 40
13 Lehigh University PA $106,260 $26,000 53
14 Duke University NC $105,921 $13,894 67
15 University of Southern California CA $105,415 $13,750 56
16 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY $103,306 $26,000 70
17 Northwestern University IL $102,994 $16,833 43
18 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus GA $102,755 $21,375 278
19 The University of Texas at Austin TX $102,544 $21,071 118
20 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor MI $102,342 $18,969 103
21 Drexel University PA $101,362 $29,666 100
22 University of Delaware DE $101,175 $25,752 72
23 Temple University PA $101,101 $27,000 60
24 University of Washington-Seattle Campus WA $100,930 $14,000 91
25 George Washington University DC $100,601 $23,000 35
26 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus PA $100,416 $24,164 89
27 Oregon State University OR $100,182 $21,500 59
28 Stevens Institute of Technology NJ $99,842 $27,000 65
29 University of Wisconsin-Madison WI $99,762 $20,492 106
30 Wentworth Institute of Technology MA $99,617 $27,000 45
31 Syracuse University NY $99,521 $27,000 29
32 Boston University MA $99,024 $25,500 126
33 University of Miami FL $98,997 $18,425 62
34 University of California-San Diego CA $98,687 $20,000 92
35 University of California-Davis CA $98,504 $15,979 107
36 North Carolina State University at Raleigh NC $98,129 $19,872 127
37 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC $97,992 $15,000 127
38 University of South Carolina-Columbia SC $97,927 $23,000 47
39 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL $97,926 $16,850 80
40 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities MN $97,611 $21,300 81
41 University of California-Irvine CA $96,874 $16,750 156
42 University of Rhode Island RI $96,532 $26,234 30
43 University of Utah UT $96,353 $19,476 77
44 University of Rochester NY $95,957 $20,500 60
45 Marquette University WI $95,728 $26,975 80
46 CUNY City College NY $95,685 - 35
47 University of Connecticut CT $95,682 $25,000 74
48 University of Arizona AZ $95,625 $19,000 46
49 Binghamton University NY $94,859 $19,500 57
50 Case Western Reserve University OH $94,168 $23,250 86
51 Rochester Institute of Technology NY $94,103 $28,308 45
52 Clemson University SC $93,705 $21,375 115
53 George Mason University VA $93,533 $23,594 42
54 Purdue University-Main Campus IN $93,434 $19,500 112
55 Texas A&M University-College Station TX $93,305 $19,000 145
56 Milwaukee School of Engineering WI $93,229 $27,000 29
57 Arizona State University Campus Immersion AZ $92,974 $21,000 135
58 Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA $92,806 $27,000 132
59 University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth MA $91,805 $27,000 37
60 North Carolina A & T State University NC $91,235 $27,000 34
61 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus OH $90,897 $20,625 63
62 University of Alabama at Birmingham AL $90,415 $22,676 51
63 Ohio State University-Main Campus OH $90,065 $23,125 79
64 University of California-Riverside CA $90,041 $19,954 67
65 Rutgers University-New Brunswick NJ $89,850 $23,745 103
66 Stony Brook University NY $89,560 $24,452 50
67 Miami University-Oxford OH $89,052 $27,000 31
68 University of California-Merced CA $88,795 $20,816 37
69 Florida International University FL $88,656 $19,500 82
70 University of North Texas TX $88,484 $22,700 47
71 Indiana University-Indianapolis IN $88,435 $19,959 36
72 New Jersey Institute of Technology NJ $88,396 $21,500 93
73 Illinois Institute of Technology IL $88,378 $27,000 34
74 University of Memphis TN $88,279 $25,250 49
75 Duquesne University PA $88,272 $27,000 30
76 Florida Institute of Technology FL $88,120 $27,000 25
77 University of Florida FL $88,078 $21,006 105
78 Western New England University MA $87,838 $27,000 28
79 The University of Texas at Dallas TX $87,420 $18,625 99
80 University of Illinois Chicago IL $87,393 $21,250 84
81 University of Iowa IA $86,894 $27,000 92
82 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus PA $86,893 $27,000 87
83 Saint Louis University MO $86,844 $27,000 48
84 Virginia Commonwealth University VA $86,295 $22,250 54
85 University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus CO $86,190 $26,840 32
86 University of Toledo OH $85,751 $19,750 65
87 University at Buffalo NY $84,920 $19,615 78
88 Rowan University NJ $84,059 $26,697 35
89 Michigan Technological University MI $83,916 $27,000 63
90 University of Akron Main Campus OH $82,540 $23,123 51
91 University of Maine ME $80,059 $20,365 28
92 The University of Texas at San Antonio TX $77,774 $24,200 38
93 University of Arkansas AR $75,972 $27,000 58
94 Mississippi State University MS $74,542 $25,000 89
95 Wichita State University KS $72,936 $19,118 35
96 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville TN $69,476 $22,200 62
97 The University of Texas at Arlington TX $67,246 $24,500 53

About This Ranking

Schools are ranked by College Scorecard field-of-study median earnings for Biomedical Engineering (CIP 14.05) bachelor's completers. Only operating schools with at least 25 completers and a published median are included. Ties break toward larger completer cohorts. For the full program profile - including every reporting school and national distribution - see Biomedical Engineering (bachelor's). Methodology lives on our methodology page.

Caveats and limitations

"Best" here means highest reported median earnings for the stated CIP scope - not teaching quality, licensure pass rates, clinical placement strength, or fit for any one student. This list covers Biomedical/Medical Engineering (CIP 14.05) bachelor's programs - chemical engineering (CIP 14.07) and biology (CIP 26.01) are ranked separately.

Figures cover federally aided completers only, use Treasury-linked earnings, and describe a lagged cohort. Regional pay scales and graduate-school paths both move the median without proving a causal school effect.

This ranking is for informational purposes only and does not constitute academic or career advice. Earnings do not predict any individual graduate's outcome.

Every figure on PlainCollege is rendered directly from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard data, no number is typed in by an editor. Rankings are computed directly from College Scorecard field-of-study data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error on this page. Review the public data changelog. Data current as of Mar-Jul 2026 retrievals.