MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Industrial Experience

• Study at one of the largest departments of electrical and electronic engineering in the country, with a distinguished history and a focus on the future.
• Gain invaluable experience and amplify your employment prospects with an industrial placement at a recognised company.
• Complete your master’s degree with a final-year team project, which is either directly funded by industry or inspired by industrial needs.
• Combine scientific and engineering knowledge with creativity to solve some of today's biggest electrical and electronic engineering challenges, making use of a state-of-the art array of equipment and facilities.
• Learn how to design electrical power, electronic and communication systems.
• Study at a university ranked 4th for electricaland electronic engineering in the UK (QS World University Rankings 2024).
• We're the most targeted university by the UK's leading graduate employers ( High Fliers Research 2024 ).

Switch on your career in electrical and electronic engineering at The University of Manchester, a university with a prestigious engineering history - and a bright focus on the future. We are home to one of the largest departments of electrical and electronic engineering in the UK, have fantastic links with industry, and have taught the discipline of electrical and electronic engineering since 1905. More than 100 years later, we continue to help address the biggest engineering challenges.

The use of electrical energy is fundamental to modern life. Without a secure energy supply, society in its current form would collapse. Consequently, the importance of efficient and sustainable generation and secure distribution of electrical energy cannot be overstated. This will be a lifetime challenge facing generations to come – and electrical and electronic engineers have a vital role to play.

Furthermore, both today and in years to come we look to electronics to provide answers for complex problems. Take the mobile phone as an example: a very sophisticated computer and communications system that links to a worldwide network of antennas allowing it to connect to any other mobile phone, as well as the internet. Another example is the digital camera, at the heart of which is a sophisticated electronic device containing millions of individual light level sensors.

Additionally, we live in an information age. Complex systems require digital signal processing (for images, audio and other signals), and technological developments in communications include concurrent processing (to allow the manipulation of the massive amounts of data), data networking and digital communication systems for both local distribution and across the internet. Explore these themes and acquire the skills to take them forward at Manchester.

Spending a year in industry will not only develop your business, team working and transferable skills - all highly sought-after by employers - it will also highlight the broad range of careers on offer to you and guide your choice of subject options. You'll place yourself in a great position to move your career forward.

In the final year you will complete a team project directly funded by industry or inspired by industrial needs. Past projects have included developing an instrumented training wheelchair for para-athletes, creating a haptic glove for remote handling, creating a new core infrastructure for a robot orchestra, developing a cyber-secure electricity management system in smart cities, and many more .

36 points overall with 6,6,6 in Higher Level subjects, including 6 in Mathematics, 6 in Physics or Chemistry, and 6 in one other Higher Level subject.

For this programme of study we will accept: Higher Level Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches or Mathematics: Applications and Interpretation

All applicants to the University (from the UK and Overseas) are required to show evidence of English Language proficiency. The minimum English Language requirement for this course is either:

• GCSE/iGCSE English Language grade B/6
• IELTS 7.0 overall with no sub-test below 6.5 and 7.0 in writing
• TOEFL iBT 100, 25 in Writing and no subscore below 22
• An acceptable equivalent qualification .

Students eligible for a contextual offer will be required to evidence English language proficiency at GCSE English Language grade C/5.

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