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Automotive Engineering

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  • Undergraduate
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Course summary

The automotive sector is very dynamic, offering excellent career prospects in large corporations, component suppliers and motorsport companies. The University has a long track record of producing skilled engineers for every branch of the automotive industry. This degree course is geared towards vehicle design, although it has much in common with the Mechanical Engineering degree. This course has a particular emphasis on innovative vehicle design, taking into account consumer demands as well as performance targets set by the industry with regard to road safety and sustainability issues. It also provides the first step towards gaining chartered engineer status.

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Mechanical Engineers, Institution of
  • Aeronautical Society, Royal

Ways to study this course

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Study options

  • Master of Engineering (with Honours) • Full-Time • 4 Years
  • Master of Engineering (with Honours) • Full-Time • Placement (mandatory) • 5 Years
  • Master of Engineering (with Honours) • Full-Time • Placement (mandatory) • Time abroad (mandatory) • 5 Years

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Application codes

Institution code:
H36

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Application codes

Institution code:
H36

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Entry requirements

Typical qualification requirements

A level
ABB

Maths and either physics or technology or engineering based subjects, excluding general studies/critical thinking

UCAS Tariff
Offer: 128

Access to HE Diploma
Not accepted

GCSE/National 4/National 5

English Language 4/C
Maths 4/C

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

128 points from a minimum of 3 HL subjects at grade 5 or above to include HL Maths and Physics

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Not accepted

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6With no less than 5.5 in any band or equivalent

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.

To be considered for a contextual offer, you must be a UK-domiciled student with ‘Home’ fees status and meet at least one of the criteria below:
Free school meals
Care experienced
Estranged
Refugee
Indices of Multiple Deprivation Quintile 1 (IMD Q1)
Gypsy, Roma, Traveller, Showmen, and Boater (GRTSB)

For more details, please visit: https://www.herts.ac.uk/study/how-to-apply/entry-requirements/undergraduate-degrees

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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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Tuition fees

Per year tuition fees

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England, Scotland, Wales & Northern IrelandTBC

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.

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