Degree Programs Overview

The education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo aims to graduate students who have a balance of depth and mastery of the fundamentals of their particular discipline while providing hands-on, “Learn-by-doing” projects and experiences to internalize that knowledge. You’ll find this philosophy permeates the Biomedical Engineering Programs.

More specifically, through our programs, you’ll find that we have carefully thought-out, together with Industry Partners, how to best equip our graduates with Biomedical Engineering fundamentals with application of that knowledge through in depth laboratories, MEDITEC projects, senior projects, MS Theses & Projects and project opportunities, i.e., “Learn-by-doing.” So, we would like to invite you to explore our programs and our faculty to see if Cal Poly is the right place for you. 

BMED Department Faculty 

Department Quick Facts

After Graduation

Faculty: 18 (Fall 2023 full & part-time)

Undergraduate Students: 466

Graduate Students: 67

Female: 54.3%

Labs: 15

Job: 71%

Grad School: 19%

Other: 10%

Average Salary: $67,758

Median Salary: $70,000

JOB TITLES

Account Executive

Analyst

Applications Engineer

Biomedical Test Equipment Engineer

Clinical Project Assistant

Clinical Specialist

Development Quality Engineer

Electrophysiology Technical Service Specialist (EP-TSS)

Field Intern

Human Factors Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

Process Engineer

Product Engineer

Product Development Engineer

Project Engineer

Quality Control Specialist

Quality Engineer

R&D Engineer

Research Assistant

Software Engineer

EMPLOYERS

Abbott

Amgen

Applied Medical

Biosense Webster

Boston Scientific

Confluent Medical

Edwards Lifesciences

Genentech

Google

Hardy Diagnostics

HP

Intuitive Surgical

Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory

Meddux

Medtronic

Nevro

Meissner Filtration

Penumbra

Potrero Medical

Stryker

Tandem Diabetes

Triage Consulting Group

US Biotest, Inc.

ViaCyte

Self reported data 2016-2019

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