MSc Mechanical Engineering (with Placement)

Course Overview

This course is specifically aimed at international students, supporting those wishing to gain practical work-based experiential learning. Together with studying your chosen course, we are offering an additional 6-month placement opportunity, making the course 18 months in length. This allows students with limited experience to put into practice the skills and techniques developed throughout the Masters degree. The engineering sector employs a significant proportion of the overall UK workforce. In 2016, just under one in five (18.9% €“ or 5.66 million) people in the UK workforce were working in an engineering organization.* Society today places a huge range of demands on the engineering community, from the desire for ever more sophisticated consumer goods to the challenges imposed by the need for clean forms of power and transport. Faced with these demands, engineering industries in the UK are continually seeking professional engineers with high levels of expertise and skills.

General Eligibility

Entry requirements for this course are normally:

• An Honours degree (2:1 or above) in a Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering Systems related subject or a closely related Science subject area or equivalent professional qualification

• Applicants with other appropriate profession qualifications will be considered on an individual basis

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• The minimum for IELTS is 7.0 overall with no element lower than 6.5, or equivalent will be considered acceptable.