Automotive Engineering MSc (Eng)

Course overview

The automotive industry is changing from internal combustion to hybrid, electric, and smart autonomous vehicles. The strategic industrial success of this transformation depends on the availability of new engineers with master-level skills and knowledge in this area.

Our Automotive Engineering MSc gives you the knowledge and skills to meet the needs of the automotive industry in the advanced areas of analysis, design and manufacture related to traditional and emerging electric and autonomous vehicle technology.

This course will prepare you to work in a range of different settings. Core modules will develop your knowledge of key areas in industry, alongside the chance to choose from advanced professional skills modules and other optional modules on topics that suit your own interests and career intentions.

Our School’s Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) is actively engaged in ensuring this course meets the needs of industry and reflects trends in the sector. IAB members also contribute to talks that feed into our taught modules and project work, ensuring the curriculum is challenging and relevant.

This means that, once you graduate, you’ll be fully equipped with the most up-to-date practices and industry-relevant knowledge to pursue an exciting career in this area.

Applying

Entry requirements

A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) in a relevant engineering discipline. Successful applicants will have strong grades in advanced mathematics and at least three of the following relevant modules: strength of materials, dynamics, fluid mechanics, physics, or thermodynamics.

We may ask for further detailed module information if these are not clear on your transcript.

International

We accept a range of international equivalent qualifications. For more information, please contact the Admissions Team.

English language requirements

IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in any component. For other English qualifications, read English language equivalent qualifications.

Improve your English

International students who do not meet the English language requirements for this programme may be able to study our postgraduate pre-sessional English course, to help improve your English language level.

This pre-sessional course is designed with a progression route to your degree programme and you’ll learn academic English in the context of your subject area. To find out more, read Language for Engineering (6 weeks) and Language for Science: Engineering (10 weeks).

We also offer online pre-sessionals alongside our on-campus pre-sessionals. Find out more about our six week online pre-sessional and our 10 week online pre-sessional.

You can also study pre-sessionals for longer periods – read about our postgraduate pre-sessional English courses.

Career opportunities

This course will give you the opportunity to not only build automotive engineering skills but specialise in an area that suits your interests through optional modules from across the different areas of the discipline. This will open up career opportunities across different sectors of the automotive and motorsport industries.

By the time you graduate from this MSc, you'll be an all-rounded automotive engineer with a specialist skill set and the in-depth knowledge sought after by many employers in industry.

Plus, the University of Leeds is in the top 5 most targeted universities in the UK by graduate recruiters, according to High Fliers’ The Graduate Market in 2024 report.

Here’s an insight into some of the job positions and organisations previous graduates in automotive engineering have secured:

• Graduate Body Design and Engineer, Toyota Motor Europe
• Design Engineer, NBHX Automotive R&D Co. Ltd.
• Honda R&D India, Honda Cars India
• Vehicle Test Engineer, Wise vehicle Testing Solutions Pvt Ltd
• Test & Measurement Engineer (Contractor), Bentley Motors Ltd
• Product Design Engineer, Ariens Company Ltd
• Development Engineer, Ricardo
• Application Engineer, Best Engineering Aids and Consultancies Private Limited
• Specialist Engineer, Stability Control Systems, Jaguar Land Rover
• Service Engineer, MAN Trucks & Buses - Department of Transport Buses
• Design Engineer, Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC