Graduate Degree Programs

Below is a list of full-time graduate programs in the Whiting School of Engineering.  All programs offer both master's, doctoral and concurrent degrees (though the doctoral program in Biomedical Engineering is housed by the School of Medicine). 

Prospective students are encouraged to contact the departments directly.

Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Research focuses on the general area of applied mathematics, including probability, statistics, operations research, optimization, discrete math, and numerical analysis.

Bioengineering Innovation & Design
The MSE in Bioengineering Innovation & Design is an exciting and rigorous real-world program that immerses students in the clinical, technical, and business environment of practical health care innovation. CBID MSE students spend eight weeks each summer in intensive clinical rotations at the Johns Hopkins Hospital learning to identify and validate unmet clinical needs. In the fall and spring semesters students work in teams to design, build, and test their medical devices. Students interact closely with clinicians, faculty, and industry professionals to validate the clinical and commercial impact of their inventions. During the program students are learn about intellectual property, medical device regulation, reimbursement, and business plan development. The global health component of the program, in partnership with Jhpiego, introduces students to the unique health care environments worldwide. Students will have the opportunity to travel to Asia and Africa to learn first-hand to learn about health care in the developing world.

Biomedical Engineering 
Research focuses on eight general areas: imaging, biomaterials, tissue engineering, sensors and instrumentation, cardiovascular systems physiology, molecular and cellular systems physiology, systems neurobiology, and theoretical and computational biology.

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research focuses on thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and rheology, interfacial phenomena, nucleation, genomics, DNA technology, cell and tissue engineering, protein engineering, biomaterials, and complex fluids.

Civil Engineering
Research focuses on the general areas of structural engineering, structural mechanics, materials, geotechnical engineering and geomechanics, probabilistic methods, and hazard management.

Computer Science
Research focuses on algorithms, distributed and fault-tolerant computing and networks, biomedical applications of computer science, object-oriented programming languages and methodologies, robotics and computer vision, geometric computing and computer graphics, concurrent and parallel computer systems, machine learning, computational biology, natural language processing, security, metacomputing, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction.

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research focuses on the general areas of parallel processing, image analysis and communications, solid-state electronics, optical communications, sensory aids, systems and control theory, photonics and optoelectronics, and language and speech processing.

Engineering Management
The Engineering Management Program focuses on technical mastery in an emerging engineering field in one of 14 management concentrations, as well as courses in engineering management, communications, leadership, law, and entrepreneurship, offered through WSE's highly respected Center for Leadership Education (CLE).

Financial Mathematics
The Master's program in Financial Mathematics will provide a solid foundation in applied mathematics, providing the basis for an understanding and appreciation of existing models commonly used in financial applications as well as in inferential and computational tools for developing their solution. The program will also furnish the appropriate, in-depth insights in Finance where quantitative skills are most germane. The combination of these elements will create a springboard for addressing today's quantitative challenges in finance as well as provide graduates with the preparation to meet the challenges of the future.

Geography and Environmental Engineering
Research focuses on the general areas of environmental engineering including environmental chemistry and biology/ecology; fluid mechanics and water resources; geomorphology; systems analysis and economics for public decision-making; and technology, society, and environmental change.

Materials Science and Engineering
Research focuses on the general areas of materials synthesis and characterization, nanostructured materials and thin films, computational materials science, metallic glasses, electronic materials, biomaterials, and nondestructive evaluation.

Mechanical Engineering
Research focuses on: (i) micro/nanoscale science and engineering, (ii) computational engineering, (iii) aerospace and marine systems, (iv) robotics and human-machine interaction, (v) energy and the environment, (vi) ME in biology and medicine. The major areas by discipline are mechanics and materials, fluid mechanics and heat transfer, and robotics and electro-mechanical systems.

Security Informatics
Research activities ongoing in the Hopkins ISI are based on holistic perspective to networks, operating systems, assurance evaluations, cryptographic systems, electronic voting issues, Web security, legal issues and regulations and privacy-protecting infrastructures and policies that facilitate the development of uniform standards such as those mandated, for example, by HIPAA.