Electronic and Electrical Engineering MSc (Eng)

Course overview

Commercial products today combine many technologies – and industry is increasingly interdisciplinary. Our Electronic and Electrical Engineering MSc meets this demand, giving you an interdisciplinary knowledge base in modern electronics including power, communications, control and embedded processors.

You'll develop a broad grasp of many electronic and electrical engineering disciplines, as well as develop programming skills and practical laboratory skills, alongside an understanding of the global electronics industry. The programme is also designed to provide you with an opportunity to study specialist topics such as wireless communication systems, electric machines, generating power from renewable sources, FPGAs and system-on-chip technologies, medical electronics and e-health.

The School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering here at Leeds is an exciting and stimulating environment. It’s home to specialist teaching facilities and a wealth of leading researchers working on real-world issues and contributing to global change. This means you'll be learning the most up-to-date practices, equipping you with the technical skill set and holistic knowledge you’ll need to pursue a career in this field.

Applying

Entry requirements

A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (Hons) in electronic/electrical engineering, mechatronics, computing or a related subject. Applicants should have strong grades in relevant modules such as electronic/electrical engineering.

Due to the high demand for programmes in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, incomplete applications may be rejected without full assessment.

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

Electronic and electrical engineering is crucial to almost every organisation worldwide, meaning specialists will have a lot of career options to choose from.

On completing this Masters course, you’ll be well equipped to integrate and coordinate the strands of a cross-disciplinary project and manage the interfaces between specialities. With these skills, you’ll be in a good position to progress to project management roles in companies working at the cutting edge of modern multi-faceted systems. As a graduate of this Masters degree, you can expect to find jobs where industry needs a breadth of knowledge matched by a technical skill set in certain areas.

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 from this course have secured:

• Graduate Trainee Engineer, Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO)
• Technical Outside Sales Engineer, SnS Automation Products
• Technical Support Engineer, ipNX Nigeria Limited
• Hardware Engineer, Hisense
• Compliance Engineer, Premier Farnell
• Electrical Engineer, Pittas-Dragnis Ltd
• Electrical Engineer, Electro Mechanical Company
• Contract Design Engineer, Honeywell Aerospace
• Software Engineer, Marley Spoon