Academic Accelerator - Bachelor of Science - Biomedical Engineering

Program Description

Academic Accelerator Program (AAP) is a balanced first-year program for international students with good English-language skills. It supplements immersive classes taught in English with just the right amount of support.

As a student in the Academic Accelerator, you’ll receive:

• The right amount of support for your academic and English-speaking needs
• A full year’s worth of college credits
• Access to courses exclusively for international students
• English-language help with words you need to know for your classes
• A mix of classes with international and U.S. students

A biomedical engineering major prepares students to work in the unique intersection where living systems and nonliving systems come together.

The natural world is an amazing, highly complex place that the biomedical engineering major will help students to understand. Perhaps equally amazing is the universe of approaches that human beings have identified—and are continuing to develop—to make our quality of life even better.

Studying biomedical engineering as an undergraduate at UIC will help students apply quantitative analysis and design to living systems and hybrid systems (which contain some living components). Many paths become open to graduates of the biomedical engineering program. Students may want to become a bioengineer, design smart replacements for tissue or bone, develop new tools for non-invasive medical imaging or diagnostics, or shape molecules into revolutionary new drug therapies. Or graduates may want to move on to medical school, dental school, graduate work in pharmacy, or law school with a focus on patent law. No matter what path students decide to take after graduation, the UIC biomedical engineering major will offer them solid preparation.