Chalmers University of Technology: Chalmers University of Technology, situated in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a prominent technical university known for its world-class education and research in engineering, technology, and natural sciences. Chalmers fosters an entrepreneurial and collaborative environment and encourages innovation and sustainability. The university has strong ties with industry and offers students valuable opportunities for practical training and

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Biomedical engineering master's programme​ at Chalmers With a growing need for improvement in the quality of life, and global average life expectancy rapidly rising, there is an increasing demand for efficient healthcare systems. Combining the design and problem-solving skills of engineering with medical and biological science, biomedical engineering improves healthcare delivery and medical practice by closing the gap between engineering and medicine. ​With advancements within IT, data science, and artificial intelligence, a new world of possibilities in how healthcare can be improved and delivered is evolving. This master's programme is an internationally competitive education that aims to educate engineers who can work at the technological front and use modern biomedical technologies to meet a growing need in healthcare sectors and the biomedical engineering industry, but also in other industries that have elements of biomedical engineering technology. The education will give you a broad biomedical technology foundation with a certain focus on medical imaging, medical products and entrepreneurship and digital health. A big emphasis in this programme is on artificial intelligence (AI), which is becoming an essential tool in healthcare and is one of the main drivers for new medical products and services. The quickly emerging technologies for processing large-scale data and machine learning are making automated decision-making in healthcare a reality. The programme broadly connects science and technology with medicine and healthcare science. It is distinctive in that the education is based on cross-disciplinary collaboration between Chalmers, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, and Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. It provides a high clinical relevance through lectures and projects where students get the opportunity to interact with medical doctors and other healthcare professionals. Besides technical and medical aspects, the programme will give you a great understanding of regulatory and ethical issues as well as health economics around biomedical engineering technology development. Show less

The master's programme runs for a duration of two years, leading to a Master of Science (MSc) degree. During each year, you can earn 60 credits (ECTS) and in total, you must accumulate 120 credits in order to complete the programme. Credits are earned by completing courses (each course is usually 7.5 credits) and a master thesis project. 

The programme consists of compulsory courses, compulsory elective courses, and elective courses. The compulsory courses provide a general interdisciplinary base of qualified biomedical engineering skills. These general skills are then extended in the application-oriented specializations through compulsory elective courses and elective courses.

Compulsory courses
The following four compulsory courses form a foundation in the Biomedical engineering master’s programme and each course is  7.5 credits.

Applied signal processing
Deep machine learning
Health economics
Modeling and simulation in Biomedical engineering
In the second year, you must complete a master's thesis in order to graduate. The thesis may be worth 30 credits or 60 credits depending on your choice.

Master’s thesis​
Master's Thesis
In the second year, you must complete a master's thesis in order to graduate. There are two possibilities:

A 30 ECTS credit thesis, which can be conducted within a company or within one of our research divisions.
Alternatively, a 60 ECTS credit thesis can be pursued in one of our research divisions, and is intended for students interested in reseach and development-oriented jobs in industry or in a research lab, or potentially interested in pursuing a Ph.D. degree afterward.
30 ECTS credit master’s thesis projects will also be available at international universities or companies.
Compulsory elective courses
The compulsory elective courses will give you depth knowledge within a specific specialization area. At least four compulsory elective courses need to be selected out of the following:

Computer vision
Image analysis
Magnetic resonance imaging
Rehabilitation engineering
Development of medical devices
Databases
Applied digital health
Sensor fusion and nonlinear filtering
Machine learning in healthcare
Advanced topics in biomedical engineering
Science, innovation, and entrepreneurship
Elective courses (selected)
You will be able to choose from a wide range of elective courses based on your interests, including the following:

Active safety
Applied mechatronics design
Biological and biotechnical physics
Biological materials
Cell and tissue interactions with biomaterials
Computational electromagnetics
Human-computer interaction
Humanoid robotics
Image processing
Impact biomechanics
Materials in medicine
Modelling and control of mechatronic systems
Model predictive control
Spectroscopy
Strategic management of technological innovation
Vehicle and traffic safety
Tissue engineering

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You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

How to book:

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it

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