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Aerospace Engineering (with Foundation Year)

Course details
  • MEng (Hon)
  • 5 Years
  • Full-time including foundation year
  • 22 September 2025
  • Undergraduate
Course location
Preston Campus

Course summary

Course Overview

Fascinated by aircraft, spacecraft and their technologies? Our Aerospace Engineering Foundation Year Degree is the course for you. You’ll work on a range of vehicles for design, analysis, simulation and test.

Why study with us

  • During your studies you'll benefit from significant investment in the latest high quality facilities available, including state-of-the-art software tools, flight simulators, subsonic and supersonic wind tunnels and a UAV Lab.

  • A group design project will give you valuable experience in team working and development processes.

  • You’ll get involved with unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) for civil applications.

What you’ll do

  • This five-year master’s-level course offers an optional 48-week sandwich placement in industry, making it a six-year master’s programme.

  • You’ll access lectures and masterclasses on topics such as the effective use of computer-aided design software, computational fluid dynamics, and finite element analysis.

  • You’ll be encouraged to join the Royal Aeronautical Society and to participate in local branch events alongside your studies.

Accreditations

  • This MEng course is professionally accredited by the IMechE (which represents mechanical engineers and the engineering profession) as fulfilment of the educational requirements to become a Chartered Engineer.

  • This MEng course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers as meeting the academic requirement for membership and registration for Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council.

Future careers

Aerospace Engineering graduates go on to roles in the aerospace, space, defence, automotive, biotechnology, computing, electronics, energy and manufacturing sectors.

Modules

Please visit The University of Central Lancashire’s website for the latest information about our modules.

How to apply

Apply by
29 January

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
B4A6
Institution code:
C30
Campus name:
Preston Campus
Campus Code:
U

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Foundation

Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff
48 points

GCSE Maths grade C/4 or equivalent required.

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6with no component score less than 5.5 (To have been taken within two years of the course commencement date)

Contextual admissions

Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.

Widening participation is at the core of our mission. We believe in helping people to seize every opportunity to flourish in education and work, for life. We offer reduced entry tariffs for students from areas of relative disadvantage, with lower rates of participation in higher education, as well as those who have spent time in the care system. Simply include your care leaver status and postcode on your UCAS application and we will automatically make you a contextual offer if you are eligible.

Learn more on the University of Lancashire website

Historical entry grades data

This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).

It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

Per year tuition fees

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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.

Additional fee information

Please note fees for the foundation year will be £9,535, and then £9,535 per year for the remainder of the course.

*subject only to annual increase in line with UK Retail Price Index inflation rate

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