Explore BE Biomedical Engineering – QUEST Nawabshah at University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, including duration, eligibility and connected admission resources.

BE Biomedical Engineering at Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology, Nawabshah is a four-year morning-shift engineering degree. It is the only BE at QUEST that the 2026 admission notice explicitly opens to pre-medical intermediate candidates as well as pre-engineering students.

Program Overview

Biomedical Engineering applies electronics, mechanics, materials and computing to medicine. Students study human anatomy and physiology alongside biomedical instrumentation, medical imaging, biomechanics, biomaterials, signal processing of ECG and EEG, rehabilitation engineering and hospital equipment management. The programme ends with a final year project that often involves a low-cost diagnostic or assistive device.

The degree suits students who wanted to combine healthcare with engineering, including pre-medical students who did not get into MBBS but are strong in physics and mathematics. Pre-medical entrants should expect to catch up on mathematics in the first year, as the admission notice flags this group separately.

Quick Facts

Degree	BE (Bachelor of Engineering)
Duration	4 years (8 semesters, semester system since Batch-17) – Source: QUEST undergraduate programmes page
Department / Faculty	Faculty of Electrical, Electronics, Telecommunication and Computer Systems Engineering (Biomedical Engineering)
Campus	QUEST main campus, Sakrand Road, Nawabshah (Shaheed Benazirabad), Sindh
Intake	Once a year (Batch-26 for 2026; applications opened 25 April 2026)
Official page	quest.edu.pk/programmes/undergraduate.php

Eligibility Criteria

The official 2026 notice sets the bar for BE admission at a minimum of 60 percent marks in HSC-II, DAE or equivalent, with Hifz-ul-Quran marks and grace marks excluded; passing years from 2021 to 2026 are accepted, and SSC-II must not be older than 2019. Pre-engineering is the standard group; Biomedical Engineering also admits pre-medical candidates. Software Engineering and Computer Systems Engineering candidates may check the prospectus for the ICS group rule. Regular and self-finance seats are for candidates domiciled in Sindh; applicants from other provinces can apply only under the self-finance scheme, and some seats are reserved for overseas Pakistanis and differently-abled candidates. All applicants must sit the QUEST Pre-Admission Test and score at least 40 marks. Source: quest.edu.pk/news/212.

Admission Process

Create an account on the QUEST admissions portal and complete the online form; the 2026 cycle opened on 25 April 2026.
Pay the processing fee through the online HBL challan generated by the portal.
Upload the scanned photo (blue background) and the deposited challan by the closing date, which was 24 May 2026 for Batch-26.
Sit the MCQ-based Pre-Admission Test at the Nawabshah campus (from 9 June 2026) carrying your admit slip and original CNIC or Smart Card.
Follow the merit lists, interview and admission dates announced on the portal and the university website.

Full details of the cycle are on our QUEST Admissions 2026 (Batch-26) record and the QUEST Pre-Admission Test page. Source: official QUEST admission notice.

Fee Structure

For self-finance seats the Batch-26 notice lists Rs. 525,000 (self-finance, one-time) for this discipline, including government tax, with US$ 6,000 for overseas candidates. The regular-seat semester fee is not published in the notice; check the official website before applying. Source: QUEST admission notice Batch-26 (2026), quest.edu.pk admission advertisement PDF.

Career Scope in Pakistan

Biomedical engineers work in hospitals as clinical and equipment engineers, in companies that import, sell and service medical devices, in regulatory and quality roles, and in research centres developing prosthetics and diagnostic tools. Demand is concentrated in the large hospital networks of Karachi, Hyderabad, Lahore and Islamabad, and the degree is also a strong base for postgraduate study abroad.

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