MEng Aerospace Engineering: The University of Manchester

Course description

MEng Aerospace Engineering at The University of Manchester offers you a common first year giving a comprehensive, broad-based foundation to your training and ensuring that you make the right choice about your area of specialisation. There are opportunities to switch programmes and to choose specialist options.

MEng Aerospace Engineering teaches you to understand and improve future generations of aircraft and spacecraft and helps prepare you for a number of careers (technical, specialist, research, managerial and financial). It aims to give you much more than just a theoretical knowledge of engineering science. MEng Aerospace Engineering will give you a solid base of practical skills, an understanding of design, the commercial world and competence in problem-solving, team working and creativity.

MEng Aerospace Engineering is an innovative and modern degree which incorporates active learning techniques. The programme is delivered by highly trained research staff in one of the most well-established engineering schools in the world.

Career opportunities

Graduates from these degrees may enter Europe's aerospace industries or continue to postgraduate study in aerospace engineering. Aerospace engineers also find many employment opportunities in other branches of engineering where their transferable skills play important roles.

Moreover, the acquisition of high levels of attainment in transferable skills such as simulation, problem solving, design, management and modelling, enables a significant proportion of graduates to follow alternative careers in high level technology. The graduates are increasingly sought after for positions in the business, management and financial arenas.

Entry requirements

• English language: Minimum grade C in English Language or equivalent qualification: IELTS 6.0 or TOEFL 550/220.
• A level: Grades AAB.
• Unit grade information: The University of Manchester welcomes the provision of unit grade information which, like all other available information, will inform the consideration of applications.  Unit grades will not normally form part of offer conditions, except for Mathematics programmes.
• GCSE: Minimum grade C in English Language.
• Key Skills qualification: The University warmly welcomes applications from students studying the Key Skills qualification.
• International Baccalaureate: 35-33 points overall including 6 in Mathematics and Physics at the Higher level.