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Further develop your professional skill set or increase your experience in scientific research by becoming a specialist in biomedical engineering.
Overview
About this program
Become an expert in biomedical engineering
In this program, you will develop a high level of knowledge, intellectual discipline, scientific curiosity, and creativity in both cutting-edge professional activities and in biomedical engineering scientific research. You will deepen your knowledge and push the boundaries of a specific topic, understand and evaluate scientific literature, and gain proficiency in rigorous reasoning and experimental methods. Research primarily focuses on the fields of electrocardiology, biomedical imaging and instrumentation, biomechanics, biomaterials, modelling and biomedical simulation.
- Program offered jointly with the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Polytechnique Montréal
- Research projects designed by more than 100 specialists who work in biomedical engineering
- 8 specializations encompassing most areas of biomedical engineering
- Study program with a high level of flexibility
- A number of research areas and applications
Language accommodations
Although Université de Montréal is a French-language university, students with little or no knowledge of French are welcome and accepted into graduate-level programs.
The department provides a number of accommodations to make you feel comfortable and help you fulfill the requirements of the program even if French is not your main language of study:
- Classes are given in French, but questions can be answered in English.
- Access to course notes in both French and English.
- Possibility of taking an equivalent course at an English-language university in Montréal (first session only).
- Choice of giving oral seminar presentations in either French or English.
- Choice of writing exams in French or English.
- Choice of taking the comprehensive exam in either French or English.
- Choice of writing your doctoral thesis or dissertation in French or English.
Note that all course literature is in English and all laboratories are offered in a bilingual environment.
Above all, department staff are available to help and support you throughout your studies.
Advantages of studying biomedical engineering at UdeM
Multidisciplinary setting to promote scientific research
- Resolve problems through an approach that integrates both the engineer and the medical specialist perspectives
- Pursue laboratory work, clinical studies, big data analysis and numeric modelling
- Collaborate with 12 departments, including the Faculty of Medicine
- Take advantage of financial support offered to all doctorate students
- Discover the Institut de Génie Biomédical (IGB)
Courses and specifics
For contact information on the program director or student file management technician, or to find out more about the faculty or department hosting the program, please see the page in French.
- 90 credits
- Full-time
- Day course
- Dissertation or thesis track
- Offered jointly with Polytechnique Montréal
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Our flexible and multidisciplinary programs offered jointly with hospital research centres and Polytechnique Montréal open doors to cutting-edge biomedical technologies.
Program director
Admission requirements
You are eligible only if a faculty member has agreed to supervise your research project or work prior to submitting your admission application.
Admission requirements
Be sure to select your choices to display the eligibility conditions that apply to you.
- Letter of acceptance from a research supervisor
See also the provisions for direct entry to the PhD programs in the Faculty of Medicine : Bureau du registraire - Université de Montréal (umontreal.ca).
Costs and financial aid
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$2,117.74 *
Total for a full-time session of 15 credits
Tuition fees: $1,483.65
Other fees: $634.09
These amounts are estimates and do not account for other expenses, such as costs for insurance, residence, transportation, manuals, etc.
* These estimates cannot at any time subsitute for an invoice or be used as proof for any reason whatsoever. These calculations are based on the 2024-2025 academic year.
Information updated: June 5, 2024 -
$2,117.74 *
Total for a full-time session of 15 credits
Tuition fees: $1,483.65
Other fees: $634.09
These amounts are estimates and do not account for other expenses, such as costs for insurance, residence, transportation, manuals, etc.
Good news! You may be able to lower this amount!
Under certain conditions, Canadian students who are not residents of Quebec can follow university study programs offered in French while benefiting from the same tuition fees as residents of Quebec.
* These estimates cannot at any time subsitute for an invoice or be used as proof for any reason whatsoever. These calculations are based on the 2024-2025 academic year.
Information updated: June 5, 2024 -
$9,753.94 *
Total for a full-time session of 15 credits
Tuition fees: $9,119.85
Other fees: $634.09
These amounts are estimates and do not account for other expenses, such as costs for insurance, residence, transportation, manuals, etc.
Good news! You may be able to lower this amount!
As an international student, you have access to exemption scholarships granted by UdeM throughout your university program. Note that for ungraduated programs, you must be enrolled as a full-time student for two sessions and reside in Quebec in the case of exclusively online study programs.
* These estimates cannot at any time subsitute for an invoice or be used as proof for any reason whatsoever. These calculations are based on the 2024-2025 academic year.
Information updated: June 5, 2024 -
$2,117.74 *
Total for a full-time session of 15 credits
Tuition fees: $1,483.65
Other fees: $634.09
These amounts are estimates and do not account for other expenses, such as costs for insurance, residence, transportation, manuals, etc.
* These estimates cannot at any time subsitute for an invoice or be used as proof for any reason whatsoever. These calculations are based on the 2024-2025 academic year.
Information updated: June 5, 2024 - Calculate tuition fees based on other situations
Available financial assistance
Future prospects Pursuing a career or further studies? The choice is yours!
Whether your interest lies in teaching or research and development, pursue a career as a specialist in biomedical engineering with a university, industry, hospital, consulting engineering firm, research centre or government agency.
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