Learn to design future aircraft, race cars, rockets and satellites, and launch into an exciting engineering career. Our advanced courses cover advanced aerospace engineering including the design and manufacture of fast-moving aircraft and spacecraft.

This MEng degree looks at the science, engineering and manufacture of aircraft and spacecraft. You'll learn how they operate within our atmosphere and in space, as well as the economic, legal and environmental issues associated with them. Your degree will be aligned to the UK Space Agency Civil Space Strategy.

You’ll study the principles of aeronautical and astronautical engineering, then take more advanced modules. In your second year you can choose if you want to specialise your degree. In year 3 you will complete an individual research project. In year 4 you’ll take part in a group design project.

You’ll get hands-on experience in our extensive facilities, which include:

dedicated student design studios and workshops

the largest wind tunnel in any UK university

state-of-the-art space propulsion facilities

jet laboratory with supersonic ramjet, turbojet and rocket engine

Boeing flight simulator

professional manufacturing centre

As part of this astronautics and aeronautics integrated master's degree you can:

take part in practical design modules in every year of your degree

design, build and test aircraft, spacecraft and their wider components

take part in a flight-testing course, on board a flying laboratory aircraft

showcase your work in our annual Engineering Design Show

attend site visits to experience engineering in practice