Bio-Medical Sciences and Engineering

MS with Thesis

Recent years breakthrough discoveries in health sciences have generally been achieved by effective cooperation between interdisciplinary research teams, which included members from medicine, basic sciences and engineering. Such a cooperation provides a broad visionary approach and strong scientific basis for a better understanding of the health related problems and allows the development of novel technologies to improve the quality of life.
Koç University Biomedical Sciences and Engineering (BMSE) MS and PhD programs have been developed with this philosophy in mind and offer unique, truly interdisciplinary graduate education and leading edge research opportunities for students with different disciplines, which include basic sciences (chemistry, physics and biological sciences) engineering (chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering), medicine and related health sciences programs and provide them with the vision, knowledge and tools to become the future leaders.

Degree Requirements



Bio-Medical Sciences and Engineering master with thesis program consists of at least 7 courses of at least 21 credits and seminar courses and thesis studies.

Students are required to take at least seven (7) elective courses according to their interests and complete at least twenty-one (21) credits and seminar courses by the end of the 4th semester at the latest. Unless stated otherwise, courses are 3 credits. With the approval of their advisors, students can take a maximum of 2 undergraduate courses to provide a basis for graduate courses, and these undergraduate courses can be used to complete the course and credit requirements of the master with thesis program.

In addition to the credit courses, students must complete the non-credit courses; BMSE 595 - Master Thesis, BMSE 590 - Seminar, ETHR 500 - Scientific Research Methods and Research and Publication Ethics, ENGL 500 - Academic Writing, TEAC 500 - Teaching Experience, KOLT 500 -Teaching in Higher Education and LIBR 500 - Library Researcher Development.