Entry requirements

You should have a first or strong second-class Bachelor's honours degree or international equivalent.

To apply for this course, you should have an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, automotive engineering and vehicle engineering.

We may make an offer based on a lower grade if you can provide evidence of your suitability for the degree.

If your first language is not English but within the last two years you completed your degree in the UK you may be exempt from our English language requirements.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Combine specialist knowledge in engineering with advanced business skills to impact the future of vehicle engineering in the automotive sector.

Our course gives you the opportunity to build on your first degree with more in-depth knowledge in automotive engineering. Alongside this, you’ll learn key business management skills relevant to a variety of industries but focusing first on the automotive sector.

You’ll advance your technical engineering knowledge in areas such as propulsion systems and how they will influence the future of vehicle engineering. Exploring a range of automotive engineering applications and technologies, you’ll consider their impact, analysing past failures and predicting future challenges and successes. Using a systems-thinking approach, you’ll learn to understand wider challenges that affect the automotive sector including moral, ethical and sustainability issues.

At the start of your course, you’ll be set a topical automotive theme to carry through into group projects. This ensures the subject-based units are current and relevant to professional practice in the industry. It also gives you the benefit of a personalised learning pathway.

Complementing your engineering studies, you’ll learn about business and management in the automotive sector. You’ll cover areas such as resource management, business processes, business theory, and change management. All of this is designed to give you the opportunity to develop skills that will be useful for your future career. A key part of this will be working on group projects with students across our automotive courses to create a collaborative and transdisciplinary learning environment. And our ‘practice track’ business project allows you to work on a real engineering management challenge together with an industrial partner.

Learn from experts in the field

We’ve been researching within the automotive sector for over 40 years so you'll be learning from academics contributing to the latest research in automotive engineering. They are dedicated to transferring this knowledge to your learning experience so you get the benefit of their expertise. As well as academic support, you’ll benefit from our links with industry. Your consultancy project will be sponsored by a company with a real problem they want you to solve and an industrial mentor to help you.

Use specialist facilities

Throughout the course, you'll attend laboratory sessions run on our bespoke facilities that demonstrate the principles of current and future vehicles. You'll also be able to draw on the staff expertise and facilities of our new Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS).

Start your future here

Supporting you to graduate ready to advance your career is important for us. As part of your course, you’ll study professional development to build your research, communication and project management skills.

We expect graduates from this course to go on to work as managers in the automotive industry. They are likely to work in roles that draw upon both their technical expertise and ability to manage resources at large vehicle manufacturers, tier 1 suppliers and large consultancies. Our past engineering graduates have secured jobs as:

Calibration engineer, Ford Motor Company Ltd
Product engineer, Renault
Engineering consultant, D'Appolonia

Information for international students

English language requirements

IELTS: 6.5 overall with no less than 6.0 in all components
The Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic): 62 with no less than 59 in any element
TOEFL IBT: 90 overall with a minimum 21 in all 4 components

You will need to get your English language qualification within 24 months prior to starting your course.

If you need to improve your English language skills before starting your studies, you may be able to take a pre-sessional course to reach the required level.