Multidisciplinary first year - giving you an excellent foundation, not only in your chosen route but, enabling you to taste other engineering disciplines
Engineering undergraduates can apply for an Engineering Sports Scholarship, which gives you fee discounts, sporting expenses and support services.
Accredited under licence from the UK regulator, the Engineering Council.
Engineering is not just a career; it’s a driving force in society. Modern life is characterised by rapid developments in technology such as the mobile phone, nanotechnology, satellite communications, high-speed trains and innovative structures – all designed, developed and implemented by engineers.
To be a successful engineer in our fast-moving technological world you will require an education with the broadest possible interdisciplinary base. Professional engineers, with highly specialist knowledge, will frequently collaborate with engineers from many other disciplines within large interdisciplinary teams to successfully implement a project.
At Exeter we provide you with a thorough grounding in the principles underlying all branches of engineering through a multidisciplinary Core Course in the first year. In your second and subsequent years you will undertake specialist training according to your own interests. This approach will give you the confidence to work across the various engineering disciplines, while offering the flexibility to choose between the specialist disciplines from the second year.
Our engineers are committed to providing a challenging and rewarding experience for all our students through high quality research-led teaching, supervision, pastoral care and learning opportunities designed to bring out the very best of our students’ intellectual and personal skills.
We have excellent links with industry both locally and nationally and our students have the opportunity to carry out extensive work placements and be involved with industrially driven research projects, all of which enhance your employability.
- 1st for General Engineering in the National Student Survey (2011)1
- 7th in the UK for Mechanical Engineering in The Sunday Times University Guide 2012
- Top 10 for General Engineering in The Times Good University Guide 2012 and The Complete University and Guardian guides
- All specialist MEng/BEng programmes professionally accredited2
- All programmes available with Industrial Experience or International Study
- Opportunity for an Engineering Sports Scholarship
Professionally accredited
The structure of our degree programmes conforms to the requirements set out by the Engineering Council in the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence. By successfully completing one of our 4-year MEng programmes, or a 3-year BEng programme followed by a period of further learning during your professional career, you will have achieved the education base for Chartered Engineer (CEng) status. As with other institutions, our MEng and BEng degree programmes go through the accreditation process at regular intervals; we have been accredited continuously for the past 30 years.
Admissions
We welcome enquiries regarding admissions and hope to make the process as easy as possible for you. Visit the University Applications pages for full details on how to apply, including advice on writing your personal statement and information for mature students. If you have any questions about any of our degree programmes, please contact:
How would a world without engineering look? There would be no electricity, no buildings, no roads, no cars, no airplanes etc. However, most us wouldn't be here either, because without the engineering of drugs and vaccines, the average life expectancy of people would be less than 30! Engineering is all about innovation and no matter how remarkable engineering achievements are, the 21st century brings many more challenges and opportunities.
Our unique engineering course is founded on a belief that a single engineering discipline cannot solve any of those challenges on its own. That is why we provide our students with a thorough grounding in the principles underlying all branches of engineering followed by specialist training according to their own interests (e.g. Civil, Mechanical, Electronic, Materials or Management).
If you feel strongly about the need to engineer better medicines, provide access to clean water to millions, manage the nitrogen cycle, provide energy from renewable resources, secure cyberspace etc. then our engineering course is for you!
Professor Dragan Savic
Head of Engineering
Professional engineers solve technical problems which make life safer, more sustainable and more convenient for us all. The solutions can take the form of new materials, devices, and techniques that make a real contribution to society and the economy. The world has finite resources and demands for raw materials and energy are ever increasing so we need engineers to work smartly and find new effective solutions to our problems and thereby manage our demands.
The College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences offers a wide range of fully accredited Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering programmes which provide the education needed to allow graduates to start out on a worthwhile, productive and valuable career in Engineering.
Dr Khurram Wadee
Co-Director for Education (Engineering)
Studying Engineering at Exeter has confirmed my career decision, given me a confidence boost and helped me to take my future more seriously. Tutors and Lecturers are excellent, primarily because they are passionate about the subject they are teaching. The programme trains your brain to think like an engineer, even before you complete the last term of your first year. Student feedback about the course is also taken into consideration, which makes this university stand out of the crowd, because at the end of the day, it's the student’s success that makes the difference. I was told that the programme gets harder year after year. If this is so, I can safely say that the University of Exeter is going to provide the world with THE BEST engineers, in the near future.
Exeter Engineering undergraduate
Having worked for Shell for 17 years, I have undertaken a number of roles from core engineering through to Managing Director of a medium sized subsidiary company. The quality and breadth of academic experience at Exeter’s Engineering faculty together with opportunities to develop “life” skills have been a source of great experience that I have been able to draw upon at various stages of my career.
Phil Turley, Managing Director, Shell Gas UK Ltd, BEng Engineering alumni (1994)
1 Based on the average percentage of positive responses across all survey categories for full service universities
2 Accreditation pending for the Industrial Placement and International Study variants and the BEng/MEng Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
