Are you interested in how to make cars better, faster, safer, cleaner and more sustainable? The automotive industry, which includes successful manufacturers like Nissan, Honda and Jaguar Land Rover, needs engineers who can work on design, production, and research and development.

The first three years of the course, or four years if you undertake a year-long industrial placement, are the same as our BEng (Hons) Automotive Engineering. You’ll then complete a further year to gain your MEng. This final year continues the strong focus on automotive engineering.

You should apply for this course if you want to meet in full the academic requirements for becoming a Chartered Engineer, which is associated with higher salaries. Employers place particular value on graduates who, because they already have an MEng, don’t need to undertake postgraduate studies alongside their day-to-day work.

Throughout the course you’ll be tackling problems within a practical context. Our sustainable engineering agenda will ensure that you’ll be equipped to work ethically in a world that needs engineers to meet societal challenges.

After many years of running accredited engineering programmes the MEng Automotive Engineering programme has recently been revised and updated and therefore is subject to reapproval of accreditation. The MEng Automotive Engineering is currently seeking accreditation for this Programme from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to meet the academic requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer.

Why choose Northumbria to study MEng Automotive Engineering?

• Manufacturing & Production Engineering is ranked 15th in the UK by the Complete University Guide for 2024.

• Engineering is ranked 25th for research power in the UK out of 89 submissions (REF, 2021). This is a rise of 8 places compared to 2014.