The Department of Bioengineering (BioE) at The University of California, Berkeley, was founded in 1998, the first new department to be established in our College of Engineering in over 40 years. It was conceived to support and expand the successful UC Berkeley – UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, which was established in 1983 and continues to the present as our PhD program. The department serves as the sole administrative home for our Bachelor of Science (BS) and Master of Engineering (MEng) degrees, as well as the UC Berkeley administrative home (along with the UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences) of the Master of Translational Medicine (MTM) and the joint PhD program with UCSF.
The BioE graduate and undergraduate programs are continually ranked in the Top 10 according to US News & World Report.
The PhD program also ranked highly in the 2010 National Research Council rankings, which are tabulated every 10-15 years and heavily data-driven (number of graduates, publications, research expenditures, etc.), in the #2 to #8 range by their Regression method, and the #1 to #6 range by their Survey method.
The bioengineering department is part of the College of Engineering, a world-renowned program consistently ranked in the top three overall engineering schools in the country by U.S. News & World Report. UC Berkeley as a whole has been ranked as the top public university in the world.