Biomedical Engineering at Northern Illinois University

If you plan to study biomedical engineering, take a look at what Northern Illinois University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

NIU is located in Dekalb, Illinois and has a total student population of 16,769. In 2021, 8 bio engineering majors received their bachelor's degree from NIU.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Biomedical Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

NIU Biomedical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Bio Engineering

NIU Biomedical Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the bio engineering progam at NIU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The bio engineering major at NIU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Biomedical Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	108
Best Biomedical Engineering Schools	126

Bio Engineering Student Demographics at NIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the bio engineering majors at Northern Illinois University.

NIU Biomedical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 bio engineering majors earned their bachelor's degree from NIU. Of these graduates, 63% were men and 38% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 39% more racial-ethnic minorities in its bio engineering bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northern Illinois University with a bachelor's in bio engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

NIU also has a doctoral program available in bio engineering. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Industrial Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Careers That Bio Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in bio engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Northern Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Architectural and Engineering Managers	9,760	$136,270
Biomedical Engineers	1,500	$98,420
Engineering Professors	1,330	$114,010

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Andy McMurray under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.