1st in the UK for Student Satisfaction
Swansea is one of the UK’s leading centres for materials teaching and research. Materials Engineering is 1st in the UK for Student Satisfaction and ranked 6th overall in the UK, according to The Guardian University Guide 2018.
The internationally leading materials research conducted at Swansea is funded by prestigious organisations. These industrial research links provide excellent opportunities for our degree students to undertake vacation and year-out placements, as well as giving good research and employment opportunities.
We prepare our degree students for their future careers. This is recognised by The Complete University Guide 2017, The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide, which placed the graduate job outcomes for our Materials Engineering degree students as best in the UK.
“I was lucky enough to gain sponsorship towards my degree from Chevron (a major oil company) so I spent my university holidays working at a refinery to gain industrial experience.
I also spent a sandwich year at the refinery between the second and third year of my degree which gave me a lot of relevant experience and helped in the third year of the course – for example, I’d seen firsthand a lot of the corrosion and metal failure modes we were learning about.
A sandwich year teaches you so much and gives you a huge amount of transferable skills. I graduated with a 1st class degree and was offered an immediate position with Chevron, so the placement experience definitely proved worthwhile.”
Swansea University Materials Engineering are delighted to offer entrance scholarships of up to £1,500 to new Materials Engineering undergraduate students joining us for the 2018/19 academic year. Click here for more information.
| BEng Materials Science and Engineering / UCAS code J500 |
| MEng Materials Science and Engineering / UCAS code J504 |
| BEng Materials Science and Engineering (with a Year in Industry) / UCAS code J502 |
| MEng Materials Science and Engineering (with a Year in Industry) / UCAS code J503 |
| BEng Materials Science and Engineering (with a Year Abroad) / UCAS code J510 |
| MEng Materials Science and Engineering (with a Year Abroad) / UCAS code J506 |
| Materials Science and Engineering Foundation Year / UCAS code J505 |
| MSc Materials Engineering |
| MSc Engineering Leadership & Management |
| MSc by Research in Materials Engineering |
| Engineering Doctorate (EngD) |
| PhD or MPhil Materials Engineering |
Our Materials Science and Engineering department is ranked in the Top 300 departments in the World. (Shanghai Global Rankings)
Our BEng, MEng, MSc, MRes and EngD courses are accredited by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3).
