Course Overview

Professionally accredited, and with paid placement opportunities, the MEng (Hons) / BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering offers excellent job prospects and the potential to help create a sustainable planet. This course combines academic study, hands-on experience, and group projects to ensure you develop the essential practical and communication abilities required by employers in the chemical engineering and processing industries. Chemical engineering is at the forefront of the quest to produce clean energy and satisfy human needs across a number of areas in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way. These areas include pharmaceuticals, health, food, drink, oil, gas, petrochemicals, agriculture, fine chemicals, and materials. Chemical engineers are involved in the design, operation, and management of plants and processes resulting in products that influence our wellbeing and quality of life. The MEng/BEng Chemical Engineering prepares you for a long and rewarding career in the chemical and processing industries.

General Eligibility

Our Minimum Entry Requirements are applicable to those applicants who have not had an equal opportunity to demonstrate their academic ability at school or college and are known as ‘widening access’ applicants. We also sometimes refer to this type of applicant as receiving a ‘contextual’ offer. We may be able to provide you with a contextual offer if you fall into one of the categories below:

1. You have been in care (care-experienced/care-leaver)

2. You are a young carer

3. You have government-recognized asylum or refugee status

4. You are estranged from your family or guardians

5. You live in a SIMD decile 1-4 (SIMD20/40)* Scottish postcode area

Part Time Work Details

20 hours per week.

Language Requirement

• IELTS 6.0 with no skill below 5.5