The MSc in BioMedical Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BME-AUTh) spans in three semesters, covering one and half year. There are no specific directions of the study program, but there are two study program types:

• Standard MSc study program: This is the standard programme of two semesters of courses counting jointly 30 ECTS per semester, and one (the last) semester devoted to the diploma thesis, counting for 30 ECTS, having in total 90 ECTS.
• <mark>MSc by research study program:</mark> This program differs from the standard MSc study program in the second semester. Instead of having 30 ECTS from courses, only 10 ECTS are from courses and the rest 20 ECTS is for a research thesis, which continues in the third semester and counting totally for 50 ECTS, having in total 90 ECTS.

For both programs, there are 6 core (compulsory) courses in the first semester and 2 core courses in the second semester. The rest are elective courses to be selected in the standard MSc study program, whereas in the MSc by research study program the research thesis replaces the elective courses of 20 ECTS.

In the first semester, there are two core courses (code numbers 1 and 2) for building and developing the necessary background as students have diverse education at graduate level. These two courses are organized for two groups of students and are adapted accordingly, namely for students of life science education and students of science / engineering education.

Courses

First Semester

Core Courses

• 1a. Systems biology (for students of life science education) [6 ECTS]
• 1b. Systems biology (for students of science / engineering education) [6 ECTS]
• 2a. Physiological and anatomical modeling (for students of life science education) [6 ECTS]
• 2b. Physiological and anatomical modeling (for students of science / engineering education) [6 ECTS]
• 3. Mechanical properties of biomaterials [5 ECTS]
• 4. Biomedical data acquisition and signal processing [5 ECTS]
• 5. Health technology design and clinical engineering [5 ECTS]
• 6. Seminar series on topics in biomedical engineering [3 ECTS]

Second Semester

Core Courses

• 7. Medical physics, imaging and image processing [5 ECTS]
• 8. Seminar series on research methodology and practice [5 ECTS]

Elective Courses

• 9. Information and communication technologies in medicine and healthcare [5 ECTS]
• 10. Artificial intelligence and medical diagnosis & decision support systems [5 ECTS]
• 11. Biomanufacturing – tissue engineering [5 ECTS]
• 12. Medical robotics, cyber physical engineering and virtual reality [5 ECTS]
• 13. Nanomaterials – nanomedicine [5 ECTS]
• 14. Precision medicine and prevention [5 ECTS]
• 15. Computational neuroscience – neuroengineering [5 ECTS]
• 16. Bioinformatics [5 ECTS]
• 17. Microscopy, lasers, nano-testing and reverse engineering [5 ECTS]
• 18. Drug engineering [5 ECTS]
• 19. Biomedical engineering and global (environmental) challenges [5 ECTS]
• 20. Machine learning in biomedical data analysis [5 ECTS]
• 21. Physiology-based biokinetics and biodynamics [5 ECTS]