ObjectivesMEng 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.
Entry requirementsSelected entry requirements English language: Minimum grade C in English Language or equivalent qualification: IELTS 6.0 or TOEFL 550/220. A level: Grades AAB. This should include Mathematics (must include applied/mechanical element - if not Physics must be offered) and a science (Physics preferred but Chemistry, Biology or Engineering Science also acceptable). Two AS-levels of equivalent grade are acceptable in place of a third A-level. General Studies is not accepted. 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. However, as the opportunities to take these modules are not open to all applicants, currently this is not an essential requirement of the University. International baccalaureate: 36 points overall including 6 in Mathematics and Physics at the Higher level. Additional entry requirements Additional entry requirements exist for this course. You may view these by selecting from the list below.
Academic titleMEng Aerospace Engineering
Course descriptionAssociated organisations
Students are encouraged to become members of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
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. Our graduates are increasingly sought after for positions in the business, management and financial arenas.
Course fees: Tuition fees for Home/EU students commencing their studies in 2009 will be approximately £3250 per year. These fees will be subject to change in the light of government announcements to all universities.