From Fall Semester 2025, enrolling as a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Basel means aiming for a PhD degree awarded by the Graduate School Medical & Health Sciences (GSMHS), an inter-faculty initiative of the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science.

To enable students to create a unique career profile based on their interests, GSMHS offers five doctoral programs, each recommending courses dedicated to the specific needs of enrolled PhD students. Two of these programs (in bold) are particularly recommended for Biomedical Engineering PhD students:

• Bioethics, Policy & Law in Environment & Medicine
• Infection Biology & Health
• Patient Oriented Research
• Population & System Oriented Reserach
• Technology & Engineering Oriented Research