Engineering (Top-up) (Q78)

Build upon your existing vocational qualification to obtain an honours degree with this top-up Bachelor of Engineering. Designed for those with an OU Foundation Degree in Engineering or equivalent vocational qualification, it lets you tailor your final stage of study to your background and interests. You can develop advanced knowledge and skills in areas such as communications, design, electronics, environmental management, mathematics, mechanical modelling, nanoengineering, renewable energy or structural integrity. Alongside specialist modules, you’ll complete an engineering project that showcases your professional and technical capability. This top-up degree opens doors to wider career opportunities and professional recognition.

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

This top-up engineering degree has one stage, comprising 120 credits.

Stage 3: You’ll begin at Stage 3 (your existing qualification makes up Stages 1 and 2), and choose 90 credits based on your previous engineering study and experience, plus complete your degree with a 30-credit project module.

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