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Engineering (Top-up) (Q78)

  • BEng (Hon)
  • 2 Years
  • Distance learning
  • 10/2025
  • Undergraduate
Distance Learning
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Course summary

Top up your existing qualification to an honours degree. You can add to your OU Foundation Degree in Engineering or an equivalent qualification from elsewhere. Tailor your studies to suit your background and previous study. Develop your knowledge and skills and open up further career opportunities. Study choices include communications, design, electronics, environmental management, mathematics, mechanical modelling, nanoengineering, renewable energy, and structural integrity. You’ll also complete an engineering project.

Key features of the course

  • Accredited on behalf of the Engineering Council

  • Progress from your vocational qualification (e.g. HND) to an honours degree

  • Choose modules to fit with your previous study

  • Develop your analytical skills – key to successfully studying engineering

  • Prepare for further engineering study at postgraduate level

Modules

This top-up engineering degree has one stage, comprising 120 credits.
Your existing study makes up Stages 1 and 2.
In Stage 3, you’ll choose 90 credits and complete a 30-credit project module.

Professional bodies

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

  • Engineering Council
  • Engineering Designers, Institution of
  • Engineering and Technology, Institution of
  • Materials, Minerals and Mining, Institute of
  • Mechanical Engineers, Institution of

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Distance Learning

Study options

  • BEng (Hon) • Distance learning • 2 Years

Start dates

  • 10/2025

Application codes

Institution code:
O11
Campus name:
Distance Learning
Campus Code:
D
Points of Entry:
Year 1

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How to apply

To apply for this course you will be taken to the provider's website, where you can find out more information and make an application.

Application codes

Institution code:
O11
Campus name:
Distance Learning
Campus Code:
D

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

You must have passed one of the following OU qualifications within the last eight years:

Foundation Degree in Engineering (X11)
Diploma of Higher Education in Engineering (W11)
Foundation Degree in Materials Fabrication and Engineering (X12)
Diploma of Higher Education in Materials Fabrication and Engineering (W12)
If you have, ring the Partnerships Team on 0300 303 6333 to register.

Alternatively, you must have a qualification from somewhere else that meets the following criteria:

in engineering or a closely related subject
equates to a total of 240 credits, 120 of which are at FHEQ level 5 or SCQF level 8 (e.g. DipHE, HND or foundation degree)
passed within the last 8 years
Download, complete and return a Top-up Bachelor of Engineering application form with evidence of your previous study.

If you’re planning to start in October 2018, you must apply by 16 August 2018.

Historical entry grades data BETA

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