Degree Requirements
Master's Degree
A minimum of 33 graduate credits is required to earn the Master of Science in BME (project option) or 39 credits for the Master of Science in BME (thesis option). The program study can be chosen from any of the following approved concentrations: (1) Biomedical Principles, (2) Biomedical Design, (3) Biomedical Entrepreneurship
The program of study can be tailored in consultation with your faculty advisor/mentor to accommodate almost any BME area of interest through the use of a technical elective system.
- There is a separate application process through the Center for Biotechnologies (contact: Dr. Louis Peña, louis.pena@stonybrook.edu).
- or petition for equivalent course to satisfy this requirement.
- Non- BME courses need to be approved by the Graduate Program Director prior to the start of the semester of enrollment.
- Current acceptable management technical electives are: BUS 510, EST 534, EST 580, EST 519, MBA 511, MBA 512, MBA 584, MBA 568, MBA 570.
- The number of credits associated with each variable credit course is shown in parenthesis.
- An overall grade point average of 3.0 must be maintained in the BME core courses (BME 501, 502, and 505 for the Engineering Principles and Engineering Design tracks, BME 501, 502 and 509/511 for the entrepreneurship track; and in all formal coursework to be awarded an M.S. degree in BME.
Project or Thesis Options.
Project option:
- 33 credits and an appropriate project submitted for approval to a faculty committee and/or the graduate program director.
- Most students can complete this program within three academic semesters.
- For students who wish to pursue a career in industry that typically does not involve Research & Development (R&D).
- Students can enroll BME 595 to document completion of the project on their transcript.
Thesis option:
- 33 credits + 6 credits of BME 599.
- Must submit and defend a written thesis.
- For students who wish to pursue an industrial career with an R&D focus.
Suggested courses for the different specializations/tracks can be modified based on your specific research interests in consultation with the Graduate Programs Director and your major advisor.
Please see the following Graduation Checklists for Particular BME MS Tracks:
Doctoral Degree
- Student matriculating in to the doctoral (Ph.D.) degree program must complete all the requirements for the M.S. degree in BME at Stony Brook or enter the program with a relevant M.S. degree. This latter option is termed admission with “Advanced Standing”.
- After completion of the M.S. degree or admission with Advanced Standing, there are no course requirements per se.
- Following completion of a Qualifying Examination, an independent basic research program will be undertaken.
- Subsequently, the student will present and defend their dissertation proposal defense to advance to "Candidacy”. One semester of teaching practicum must be satisfactorily performed.
- Completion of the research program will culminate in the submission and oral defense of a doctoral dissertation.
The University requires at least two consecutive semesters of full-time graduate study. All requirements for the Ph.D. must be completed within seven years after completing 24 credits of graduate study.