This one-year course offers you the chance to top up your engineering foundation degree or HND with an honours degree qualification. This will develop your range of skills and may help to improve your career prospects.
Throughout this practical engineering course, you will develop the range of specialist skills, knowledge and understanding needed to become an Incorporated Engineer.
As well as gaining the systematic understanding required for honours-level study, you will emerge as a graduate with practical experience of modern automotive engineering systems.
You will undertake an individual project which will help you showcase and develop your engineering skills.
Year 1
Automotive Computational Fluid Dynamics
Engineering Systems
Vehicle Design
Automotive Powertrain and Sensor Technology
Individual Project
This course is available in Clearing. If you have submitted an application, you can add this course. If you haven’t sent us an application yet, you can do this until 24th September 2026.
This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.
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The following entry points are available for this course:
Foundation degree/HND in a relevant subject, with an overall merit grade (60%) profile.
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
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| IELTS (Academic) | 6 | 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5. in each element, or equivalent English Language qualification. |
Review our English Language requirementshttps://www.brighton.ac.uk/international/applying-here/how-to-apply/english-language-requirements/index.aspx
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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
Fees are payable each year and will increase annually in line with inflation.
Tuition fees for full-time UK / Home undergraduate students in academic year 2026–27
Annual course fees:
Honours degree £9,790
Placement year £1,958
Integrated foundation year (except the School of Business and Law) £9,790
Integrated foundation year in the School of Business and Law* £5,760*
*The £5,760 fee is for the foundation year only. Subsequent years are charged at the regulated undergraduate fee.
Many courses include the option of a salaried placement year. Tuition fees for a placement year are charged at a lower rate.
Regulated fees:
Tuition fees for UK / Home students on undergraduate courses in England are set by the UK government and are known as regulated fees. From academic year 2026–27 onwards, regulated fees will increase annually in line with forecast inflation. The regulated fee will be £9,790 in academic year 2026–27 and £10,050 in academic year 2027–28 (subject to parliamentary approval).
Standard tuition fees for full-time international students in academic year 2026–27:
Classroom-based courses £17,796–19,692
Laboratory or studio-based courses £17,796–19,692
Placement year £1,958
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