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Medical Engineering – (M.Sc.)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
School of Technology and Health (STH)
| Application Deadline: | January 16 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | Free - ≈ € 16,180 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Stockholm / Sweden / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | August |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 120 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
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Medical Engineering covers a wide area of applications. The aim of the programme is to educate future engineers to work at the border where technology and medicine meet. The course may be used to broaden engineering skills or to provide more extensive, detailed knowledge within a specialised field of medical engineering.
Career prospects
The Master’s Programme has been developed in close collaboration with business/industry and the strong technical background that the programme delivers is a very competitive base in the following fields:
* Research and Development
* Project Management
* Marketing
* Product Management
* Other management functions
The Programme will provide a good basis for both an expert career in e.g. software design, a career more oriented towards management and administration or a mixture of both. There are examples of engineers with this background who, after five years, are in positions such as System Software Designer, Market Area Manager, Research Engineer and Project Manager (sometimes for quite large development projects). In two cases they became CEOs of successful start-up companies in the medical industry.
The programme will also provide a good start for students aiming at a Ph.D. in the rapidly evolving field of Medical Engineering Science. There are several examples of students who enabled, or contributed to, research breakthroughs during their doctoral studies or in the years that followed and now work as professors or researchers at well-known universities. It is also common to switch to an industrial career after obtaining a PhD. Since progress in medical engineering research often has strong commercial potential the combination of science and entrepreneurship can be very rewarding.
Contents
The structure of programme enables both students who have a Bachelor of Sciencein Medical Engineering and those with a more general engineering background to study on the programme. In order to guide both these groups through the programme there are two different tracks.
For the students who have a Bachelor of Science in Medical Engineering the structure of the programme will be:
* 30 credits mandatory courses
* 30 credits conditionally elective courses
* 30 credits elective courses
* 30 credits degree project
For the students who do not have a Bachelor in Medical Engineering the structure of the programme will be:
* 42 credits mandatory courses
* 18 credits conditionally elective courses
* 30 credits elective courses
* 30 credits degree project
The students who do not have a Bachelor of Science in Medical Engineering will start the first term with one basic course in Medical Engineering and one in Anatomy and Physiology. In addition the students on both tracks may choose either to start with all the mandatory courses and then the others or to alternate between mandatory and elective courses. The mandatory courses will provide broad knowledge of medical engineering and the elective courses supply the student with a deeper knowledge on some special branches of medical engineering (imaging systems, instrumentation, implants, …).
In the third term there is a course in Science Theory and Research Methodology to prepare the students for their Master’s Thesis and also for possible future research in the field of medical engineering.
The final term is devoted to a degree project which is carried out in a group of two or individually.
Degree project
A 30-credit degree project is carried out at the end of the educational programme (usually in the fourth term). The degree project is either a stepping stone to an academic career or to working in industry. The degree project can be carried out at an industrial company, a hospital or at an academic institution in Sweden or abroad.
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Requirements
A Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) of at least 180 ECTS. Specific requirements as specified by each Master’s programme.
Language requirements
Applicants must provide proof of their English language proficiency which is most commonly established through an internationally recognised test.
TOEFL
* Paper-based test: total result of 575 (written test, grade 4.5)
* Internet-based test: total result of 90 (written test, grade 20)
English test results from TOEFL should be sent directly from the ETS test centre to University Studies in Sweden (code 9520).
IELTS
* A minimum overall mark of 6.5, with no section lower than 5.5 (only Academic Training accepted)
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 575 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 90 |
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