Biomedical Engineering

TOBB ETÜ Department of Biomedical Engineering started undergraduate education as of the 2012-2013 academic year. Since its establishment, it has maintained its first place in this field by admitting students with the highest scores among the Biomedical Engineering Departments in Turkey in the full scholarship category at the undergraduate level. Since 2014, the students of our department have been participating in the Cooperative Education Program, which distinguishes TOBB ETÜ from other universities, and they possess 1 year of work experience when they graduate. To date, our department has graduated over 300 undergraduate students. Our graduates work as engineers in top-tier companies in their fields, such as Intel, Dassault, and Medronic, in different countries around the world. The mission, which states the purpose of existence of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been determined in harmony with the missions of the University and the Faculty of Engineering. In line with this, the department has succeeded in becoming a leading and entrepreneurial department that continuously develops and renews itself, training qualified engineer candidates for our country and the world.

TOBB ETU Department of Biomedical Engineering Mission:

"The mission of the Department of Biomedical Engineering is to educate undergraduate and graduate students with fundamental, field-specific, theoretical, and experimental engineering knowledge to produce solutions to biomedical problems; to raise them as creative, entrepreneurial individuals with high professional and ethical standards so that they can use the knowledge they have acquired in the development of more effective biomedical technologies; and to enable them to have careers in the fields of academy, industry, and technology aimed at the needs of our country and the world."

TOBB ETU Faculty of Engineering Mission:

"To contribute to the welfare of society as the R&D center of the business world through scientific research and applications on a universal scale, and within the framework of the 'Cooperative Education' program aimed at enabling students to gain work experience, to train leader engineers who are competent in the applications of their profession, sensitive to the environment and society, respectful of ethical values, and continuously renewing themselves."

TOBB ETU Mission:

"To be a university that identifies the needs of industry and society for the economic and social development of the country, develops programs and activities aimed at these needs, trains a qualified workforce, and can produce high-quality publications through theoretical and applied research and projects."

As mentioned above, TOBB ETÜ Department of Biomedical Engineering has ranked first in its field in our country since the day it was established. Biomedical Engineering Departments that rank in the top 5 in our country according to success rankings and base scores are shown in the table below. The current data for the year 2025 has been retrieved from the YÖK ATLAS page.

TOBB ETÜ Department of Biomedical Engineering graduates successfully continue their careers in different countries, different sectors, and in the fields of academia, industry, and technology. The distribution of the fields in which our graduates operate can be seen in the chart below.

The employment timeline of our graduates is at an advanced level compared to both national and global standards. As shown in the chart below, 32% of our graduates started working within the first 3 months, 14% within the first 6 months, and 14% within the first 12 months. Together with the 24% group continuing their careers with postgraduate education, the rate of those employed within the first year after graduation stands at a high ratio of 84%, both globally and especially for our country.

Thanks to the Cooperative Education Program, which distinguishes TOBB ETÜ from other universities, Biomedical Engineering students receive job offers from the companies where they do their cooperative education while their education is still ongoing, and approximately 20% of the students start working at the company where they completed their cooperative education. The distribution of sectors where cooperative education took place between the years 2014-2025 in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, which offers the opportunity to do cooperative education in three separate terms, in different countries, and in different sectors, is shown in the chart below.

The sectoral distribution of the companies where cooperative education has been carried out since 2014 changes simultaneously with the changes the world is going through, and thanks to the flexibility of the Cooperative Education Program, our department adapts to all these changes. The change that the sectoral distribution has undergone over the years can be seen below as a flowchart.

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