Mechanical Engineering

BEng/BEng (Hons) Part-time

Course Overview

UCAS code:
Duration: 6 years
Study type: Part-Time
Napier code: 52156BH

With its enormous range of applications, mechanical engineering can offer a highly satisfying career. You’ll work with the latest technology, learning to create engineering solutions and systems that have implications in almost every area of modern industry.

The course allows you to specialise in later years and features a work placement that will gain you both industry experience and valuable contacts that may lead to future employment.

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With its enormous range of applications, mechanical engineering can offer a highly satisfying career.

You'll work with the latest technology, learning to create engineering solutions and systems that have implications in almost every area of modern industry. Broad-based initially, the course allows you to specialise in later years, and features a 20 week work placement that will gain you both industry experience and valuable contacts that may lead to future employment.

Ideal if you're a natural problem solver, this course is one of our most popular.

Beginning with a general grounding, the course will introduce you to engineering principles and ensure you have a grasp of the basic skills involved before progressing into areas such as thermodynamic systems and mechanics of materials. Once into the final two years, you'll learn to apply and develop these skills, becoming proficient in the analysis and design of a range of engineering systems and applications, ready for a professional role in the industry.

Professionally accredited by:

IET

What's it like?

Ideal if you're a natural problem solver, this course is one of our most popular.

Career prospects

We are one of the top universities in Scotland for graduate employability, with over 93% of our graduates in jobs or further study six months after graduating.

As Edinburgh's top university for Graduate Employability (HESA 2010) and one of the top in the UK for Graduate Prospects (The Independent and The Times University Guides for 2009), we can offer you a valuable head-start in your chosen career.

With a definite shortage of mechanical engineers in Scotland at the moment, your career prospects on completing the course are highly promising. Companies all over the world are searching for graduates, particularly those from courses accredited by the Institute of Engineering & Technology, such as this.

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What's involved

Modular learning

Our courses are structured by modules which gives our students a flexible learning programme. Modules covered by this course:

On offer

Campus life

World class facilities


Developing our students, both professionally and personally, is at the heart of all learning at Edinburgh Napier and is embedded in our approach to Learning, Teaching and Assessment. We put the employability of our graduates at the core of everything we do and we are regarded as one of the Top 10 Universities in the UK for graduate employability.

We are proud to be investing £100m to provide some of the very best teaching and learning facilities and there are plans for a new student union in 2012/13.


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Requirements at a glance

Entry to the course

International students

Full-time study (per year)

The fees listed are stated per annum.

Part-time study (per year)

The fees listed are stated per annum.

Part-time study

The number of modules studied is dependant on the exit that you wish to achieve, for example:

  • A Grad Cert is 60 Credits (3 modules)
  • A Cert HE/Grad Dip/ HND is 120 credits (6 modules)
  • A Dip HE credit is 240 credits (12 modules)
  • A Degree is 360 credits (18 modules)
  • An Honours Degree is 480 credits

Please note that some part-time courses give modular exemptions for previous study and vocational experience. Advice is available during application.

Part-time study (per module)

  • A Postgraduate Certificate is 60 credits (3 modules)
  • A Postgraduate Diploma is 120 credits (6 modules)
  • MBA is 180 credits

Fees Table

Fees displayed are correct at the time of publication but the University Court reserves the right to make changes in fees at any time, and without notice, before or after the student's admission to the University.

Tuition fees are reviewed annually and will rise each year during your programme of study, at least in line with inflation.

Funding your study

We have lots of funding options available such as the postgraduate tuition fee loan for Scottish & EU students, specific scholarships for students from India and Africa, as well as bursaries & grants for those closer to home in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Visit our funding pages to find out what you could be eligible for.

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