<p>The #1 program in biomedical engineering would be Hopkins, not Duke. It might be in top 5.</p>
<p>“Biomedical engineering” is a pretty loosely defined term and if you look at faculty research in such departments, you often see very disjointed group of people who are really cell biologists, material scientists, biochemists, computational scientists, radiologists, etc. calling themselves “biomedical engineers”. Harvard has plenty of leaders in each of these fields who are pursuing research relevant to biomedicine.</p>