ENGINEERING SCIENCE

Programme overview

Why choose this programme?

Engineering Science encompasses a vast range of subjects, from microelectronics to offshore oil platforms. The course involves the application of creative reasoning, science, mathematics (and, of course, experience and common sense) to real problems.

The Department of Engineering Science at Oxford has a top-level quality assessment rating for teaching and a world-class reputation for research.

We believe that future engineering innovation will benefit from broad foundations as well as specialised knowledge. Because of this, undergraduate teaching is based on a unified course in Engineering Science, which integrates study of the subject across the traditional boundaries of engineering disciplines. Links between topics - in apparently diverse fields of engineering - provide well-structured fundamental understanding, and can be exploited to give efficient teaching.

The Engineering Science programme is a four-year course, leading to the degree of Master of Engineering. The first two years are devoted to topics that we believe all Engineering undergraduates should study.

In the third and fourth years there is scope for specialisation into one of six branches of engineering:

- Biomedical
- Chemical
- Civil
- Electrical
- Information
- Mechanical.

Decisions about which of these will be your specialisation can be deferred until the third year.

The course is accredited every five years by the major engineering institutions. Engineering Science is currently accredited by IChemE, IET, InstMC, IMechE, JBM and RAeS on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer.