2025 Best Biomedical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in New Jersey

Biomedical Engineering is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #27 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for biomedical engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 27 doctor's degrees in biomedical engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to biomedical engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of biomedical engineering students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for biomedical engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized biomedical engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for biomedical engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Biomedical Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Biomedical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Biomedical Engineering in New Jersey

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in biomedical engineering.

Top New Jersey Schools for a Doctorate in Bio Engineering

1

Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ

11 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Rutgers University - New Brunswick if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in biomedical engineering. Located in the small city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University - New Brunswick

2

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ

10 Annual Graduates

New Jersey Institute of Technology is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in biomedical engineering. NJIT is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Newark.More information about a doctorate in biomedical engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology

Best Biomedical Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Biomedical Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	176	68
New York	174	78
Maryland	119	30
District of Columbia	81	2
Delaware	53	7

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Rankings in Majors Related to Bio Engineering

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Biomedical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Bio Engineering Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering	27

Most Popular Majors Related to Bio Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	59
Mechanical Engineering	47
Chemical Engineering	41
Civil Engineering	35
Operations Research	14
Ceramic Engineering	8
Computer Engineering	7
Materials Engineering	7
General Engineering	5
Environmental Engineering	5

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to UC Davis College of Engineering. More about our data sources and methodologies.