Master Programs for Overseas Students

 Programs Overview

1. Biomedical engineering (Engineering Degree） as an interdisciplinary major is to cultivate high-level innovative talents who possess patriotism, global perspective, innovative spirit, and practical ability, and can lead the future development of medical technology. Relying on the advantages of our university's engineering and emerging medical background, we will promote the cross integration of medical science and engineering, focus on cultivating innovative high-level talents who have a solid theoretical foundation and disciplinary professional knowledge in medical science and engineering. Students will be awarded an engineering degree.

2. Biomedical engineering (Medical Degree) is an evolving discipline that draws on collaboration between engineers and scientists to provide interdisciplinary insight into medical and biological problems. The master's programs in BME are constituted with engineering expertise and clinics, aiming to use engineering methods to solve medical problems. From the perspective of the integration of medicine and engineering, BME primarily focuses on advances and achievements in disease prevention, precision treatment, human rehabilitation, and Chinese health care system development. In addition, BME develops several research areas to solve real-world clinical problems with novel engineering methods, including biomechatronics, biophotonics, medical imaging, neural engineering and rehabilitation, bioelectronics, and biosignal detections, and advanced biomaterials and tissue engineering, and rescue medicine engineering. Students will be awarded a medical degree.

3. Intelligent Medical Engineering (Engineering Degree) as an interdisciplinary major is the application of the principles and problem-solving techniques of engineering to biology and medicine, comprising of Brain Science, Big-Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligent. IME focuses on the advances and human-in-the-loop (HITL) to improve human health and health care at all levels. Aspects of drug development, medical perception, medical robots, diagnosis and treatment, image recognition, health data management, etc., are all integrated into the IME interdisciplinary platform to achieve the national plan of “Healthy China 2030”. Our Master's program in IME enhances student degrees in engineering, emphasizing cutting-edge medical engineering by taking elective courses in these areas. Students will be awarded engineering degree.

Teaching andStudying

The basic length of study for full-time academic master students in these programs is 3 years. The training methods are combining course learning, scientific research training, academic exchange and dissertation work. The training implements the guidance of individual tutors or the guidance of tutor teams.

Students should be proficient in basic theoretical knowledge related to mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electronic science and technology, biomedical and health engineering, clinical medicine, scientific research methods, experimental design and analysis, and other related fields.

The students should master and apply the basic theoretical knowledge of one of the following sub disciplines: health medicine engineering, medical diagnosis and treatment technology and equipment, rehabilitation medicine engineering, biomaterials and tissue engineering, biomedical information engineering, etc; At the same time, understanding the main research directions, such as medical intelligent perception, intelligent medical image analysis, neural engineering and neuroscience, biochips and organoid technology, molecular imaging, molecular engineering and synthetic biology, biomaterials and materials biology, biomechanics and mechanobiology, mobile wearable technology, medical robot technology, etc., and possessing rich interdisciplinary knowledge and a broad knowledge base.

Learn academic norms, medical ethics, and other humanities and social sciences knowledge, and master the methods of scientific research.

Graduate training implements a credit system, including course learning credits and training credits. The total credits required should not be less than 25 credits, including no less than 22 credits for course learning and no less than 3 credits for the cultivation process.

Requirements for Dissertation and Academic Achievements

A master's dissertation should provide new insights into the fundamental theories and specialized techniques of the research topic, or use existing theories and the latest technological achievements to solve practical problems, with certain theoretical significance or application value in academia. The work should be independently completed under the guidance of the supervisor, and the workload should be sufficient. Plagiarism and plagiarism of others' achievements are prohibited. The academic viewpoint must be clear, with correct evidence, rigorous reasoning, reliable data, clear hierarchy, and fluent writing. The writing standards for thesis refer to the “Rules for the Implementation of Master’s and Doctor’s Degree Work of Tianjin University”.

The dissertation requires a reasonable experimental design, clear technical roadmap, accurate and reliable data, fluent writing, standardized writing, in-depth discussions, and innovative content, which should also reach the level of publication in core journals.

Please refer to 《Basic Requirements for Graduate Degree Application Results of the 18^th Committee of Tianjin University Degree》for the requirements of academic achievements published by master students.

How to Apply

Applications are now open for courses that start in autumn semester 2025.Please start your application via https://tju.at0086.cn/StuApplication/Login.aspx.

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