The graduate Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina offers a 5-Year Biomedical Engineering Master's Degree program in three undergraduate tracks in Applied Science: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Material Sciences. Each of these fields of study have counterparts in our graduate program in biomedical engineering that includes concentrations in instrumentation, biomaterials, biological systems, genomics, sensors, and tissue engineering. This 5-Year Master's program has been very popular with undergraduates seeking advanced study in biomedical engineering and, for some students, it has been a motivating factor in achieving academic success. Approximately 20% of the students admitted for graduate studies in the Department of Biomedical Engineering enter using this mechanism. These students have proven to perform on par with the competitively admitted BME graduate students and finish within the expected time frame. Additionally, many of these 5-Year Master's students, who enter with limited educational aspirations, continue for the Ph.D. On the undergraduate side, an unanticipated outcome is that the prospect of a seamless 5-Year Master's Degree program is a compelling feature that is attractive to the best students attending UNC-CH for their undergraduate education.
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