Medical Engineering

Combine engineering and healthcare to design life‑changing medical tech, with a year in industry to build real experience, skills and confidence for your career. The University of Leeds has risen nine places to 77th in the latest rankings Turn ideas into engineered solutions and overcome some of society’s biggest challenges. Whether designing high-tech operating theatres, biomaterials, medical wearables or implant technologies, medical engineers play a crucial part in designing the healthcare solutions of the future.

A wide range of skills is needed to successfully design and manufacture the healthcare technologies we need in an efficient, environmentally friendly and sustainable way, while meeting the demands and challenges of the modern world. As the branch of engineering that involves the design, production, and operation of medical devices and technology, medical engineers must be able to combine engineering physics and mathematics principles with medicine.