Overview
The Georgia Tech Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Graduate Program (IBGP) was established in 1992. Since those beginnings, we now have over 170 students engaged in a broad spectrum of research by our over 70 participating faculty.
The IBGP is interdisciplinary in that it is not a standalone academic unit like most departments at Georgia Tech. Rather, nine different academic units in the Colleges of Engineering and Computing participate in the program. The academic units, which we refer to as home schools, handle admissions and financial offers, and are students of that unit for all administrative purposes. However, the program is unified in that it administers the degree requirements for all students. The home schools cannot change the program's degree requirements, however, they can constraint or supplement those requirements. This approach allows a flexible degree program that enforces depth and breadth in coursework, a solid bioengineering research experience, and yet is reflective of the disciplinary background of the student's home school.
The degree requires 33 semester hours of coursework, satisfactory passing of an oral qualifying exam, a teaching practicum experience, and the succesful proposal and defense of an independent thesis topic.
Research areas are quite broad. Major themes include cardiovascular engineering, cell and tissue engineering, biomolecular and bionantechnology applications, neuroengineering, biomaterials, health systems, systems biology, and medical imaging. Please visit the home pages of the partcipating home schools (listed here) for information about research areas. Click here for information on how to apply to the program.
Last revised on May 21st, 2007