在圣路易斯华盛顿大学寻求生物医学工程博士学位的学生将侧重于七个重叠的研究计划，这些研究计划代表生物医学工程的前沿领域，并利用我们现有教师和资源的现有优势。我们的核心教职员工和70多个附属教职员工在跨学科的研究中心和途径中共同努力，为学生提供了在生物医学工程研究领域广泛而丰富的领域中学习的机会。在生物医学工程专业攻读博士学位的学生必须完成核心课程，满足分配要求，圆满完成两个研究轮换，通过资格考试，通过论文提案，完成教学要求，完成一个被接受的第一作者出版物并完成研究论文。
Students seeking a doctorate in biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis will focus on seven overlapping research programs that represent frontier areas of biomedical engineering and leverage the existing strengths of our current faculty and resources. Our core faculty and more than 70 affiliated faculty work together in interdisciplinary research centers and pathways offering students the opportunity to learn in a diverse and rich spectrum of biomedical engineering research areas. Students pursuing the PhD in biomedical engineering must complete a core curriculum, fulfill a distribution requirement, satisfactorily complete two research rotations, pass the qualifying examination, pass the thesis proposal, complete the teaching requirement, complete one accepted first author publication and complete a research dissertation.