Classes will begin in Fall ’09 for the new Master of Science in Biomedical Technology Development and Management, a joint graduate level degree created by Virginia Tech and Georgetown University in response to future directions in medical product discovery and development and the emerging needs of industry and regulatory agencies.

Curriculum for the degree program integrates science with technology, management, ethics, and public policy, and draws on the strengths of Virginia Tech in science, industrial and systems engineering, business and management; and Georgetown’s medical research program. Students may apply to and matriculate at Virginia Tech or Georgetown, but in either case, the instruction, tuition and fees are identical and the degree will be jointly conferred from both universities. Online application is now available.

The BTDM degree is offered only as a part-time program; it is designed to accommodate fully employed students. It is taught over four semesters and a summer session, i.e. fall, spring, summer, fall and spring. The total time period from start to finish is twenty-one months. Courses are taught on eight weekends during each of the fall and spring semesters, and four weekends, from the end of May to mid-July, during the summer session. Each semester has six or seven credits; the summer session has three credits. The weekends begin at 2 pm on Friday and end at 4:30 pm on Saturday.

For more information visit:

www.btdm.gu.vt.edu

Contact Information

Virginia Tech
Heidi Sung
Program Administrator
email: hsung@vt.edu

Georgetown University
Sorell L. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Program Director
email: sschwa01@georgetown.edu