Admission

Joint Education Institutes (JEIs) are an important form of transnational education in China, allowing Chinese and overseas partners to jointly deliver higher education across a range of different subject areas.

The SUSTech – King's School of Medicine is a JEI developed by two internationally recognised universities: the Southern University of Science & Technology and King’s College London.  The School of Medicine currently offers two undergraduate programmes, Biomedical Science and Biomedical Engineering - each of which leads to separate (double) degree awards from SUSTech and King’s.   Teaching on all our undergraduate programmes will be in English, often from professors and researchers that work at Kings College London.

Our undergraduate Biomedical Science and Biomedical Engineering programmes are built on the world-leading research and teaching excellence at Kings College London.  This expertise is supplemented by the innovative and cutting-edge facilities of SUSTech, one of the top public universities in Guangdong and a rising star in Chinese higher education.  

We anticipate many of our students will choose to pursue post-graduate studies at top international universities.  

Graduates in Biomedical Engineering or Biomedical Science are highly prized for their combination of numeracy and problem-solving skills:

• BMS focuses on biology and fundamental sciences related topics such as molecular and cell biology, genetics, biochemistry, immunology, and pharmacology. This prepares students for a career in academic or industrial biomedical research (often after a Masters or PhD programme), or a career in diagnostic or testing laboratories in hospitals, healthcare or the pharmaceutical industry. However, because the degree has a strong focus on numeracy (including statistics), presentation skills and scientific writing, many biomedical science graduates also go into business, government or teaching.    

• BME focuses more on engineering, mathematics, technology, and instrumentation. This specialisation prepares a student for further studies or careers including medical imaging, clinical data processing, healthcare app development, brain-machine interfaces, and medical implants. 

Biomedical science (BMS) is the study of the processes that regulate the human body. It is a wide-ranging topic, often with a focus on the molecular and cellular events that underpin health and disease, and in many cases with links to medicine and how we can cure disease.

Biomedical engineering (BME) is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes such as monitoring, diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutics. Its range of specialisations includes, but is not limited to, medical imaging, robotics, prosthetics and implants, tissue engineering, biomaterials, bio-automation, biomechanics, medical instrumentation, nanotechnology, microfluidics, computational biology, neuro-engineering, virtual reality, digital twins, and quantitative systems pharmacology. 

Advantages of these programmes include:

· Our curricula integrate elements from both SUSTech and King’s so you will have an excellent understanding of the topic that includes both UK and Chinese perspectives and on the scientific and cultural contexts that shape the discipline in China and internationally.

· Teaching will be in English, often with King’s teachers and researchers, so you will graduate with a high level of academic written and spoken English, preparing you to work in English language environments and/or abroad.

· You will graduate with a double award from both SUSTech and King’s, increasing your competitiveness in the workplace in China and other countries.

· A good degree from an internationally recognised university like King’s (ranked 35th globally) will make you very competitive when applying for post-graduate courses such as Master’s or PhD programmes.  Students on the BMS / BME programmes will be considered favourably when applying to Master’s programmes within the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine (FoLSM) at King’s.

· The top six students on each programme will be automatically offered places on appropriate Master’s programmes within FoLSM.

The JEI uses IELTS scores as the standard for English proficiency. However, we can accept equivalent scores from other English proficiency exams if:

In these cases we will also recognise the examiners / scores listed below.

· IELTS: 6.5 overall, with a minimum of 6.0 in each skill

· Pearson test of English: 62% overall, with a minimum of 59% in each communicative skill.

· TOEFL: 92 overall, with 23 in writing, and 20 in the other skills.

· Cambridge Advanced Certificate: 176 overall with a minimum of 169 in each skill

· Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English: Level III (ISEIII) with pass in each skill

Students studying in the UK for an undergraduate degree need a high level of spoken and written English to perform well on the programme, and many Universities will require an IELTS of 6.5 BEFORE you enter undergraduate Year 1.

Our programme is more supportive in that it requires you to reach this levelbefore entry into Year 2, giving you a full year of highly intensive English language teaching to reach this level. We are confident that this will provide a strong foundation for you to reach this goal.

If at the end of Year 1 you are not yet at an equivalent of IELTS 6.5, we will encourage you to engage with additional English language learning during the Summer break to allow you to be re-assessed before the start of Year 2.

The Biomedical Science (BMS) and Biomedical Engineering (BME) programmes have been designed to develop students’ understanding of the knowledge and concepts that underpin the disciplines, but also focus on developing the academic and technical skills that are necessary for the workplace.

Both programmes contain General Education modules that are common to all undergraduate programmes in China. 

These are supplemented by modules focussing on academic English modules or introductory science before progressing onto those that focus on the core topics of the degree programme. 

 Importantly, both programmes put a lot of emphasis on how research informs our understanding of the topic, and reinforce this by using an extended research project in the final year to focus on a cutting-edge research question and to “pull together” students’ disciplinary understanding and skills.

For a summary of indicative modules see LINK:

Biomedical Science

Biomedical Engineering