The School of Engineering is founded on a commitment to world-changing teaching and research that pushes beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplines to tackle the most important technological, economic, environmental, and medical challenges faced by society today.
- Industry-based Teaching: Accredited programmes designed with industry advisory boards ensure highest professional standards.
- Employability: Our programmes include guest lectures, industry-based projects, and networking opportunities to boost your career prospects and earning potential.
- Flexible Delivery: Most programmes also available part-time online, with options to build up to a Master’s degree through short courses.
- World-Class Facilities: Advanced labs for fluid mechanics, circuit design, signal processing, thermodynamics, materials science, and geotechnical investigations.
- Funding Your Studies: We offer competitive scholarships from industry partners and the Aberdeen Global Scholarship for eligible international students.
- Interdisciplinary: Our multi-disciplinary approach to teaching and research offers a distinctive sense of community and diversity of perspectives.
- Collaboration: We are a partner of choice for many world-leading institutions and companies including NASA, European Space Agency, Bosch, Halliburton, Mitsubishi, Cisco Systems, PEMEX and TotalEnergies.
- Student Experience: We support our students with their studies as well as by offering extra-curricular opportunities through societies such as TAU Racing, PrototAU and SPE.
- Alumni Network: This year we're celebrating 100 years of engineering at Aberdeen. Our graduates work all around the world in academia and industry.
- Europe's Energy Transition Capital: Aberdeen is the ideal place to study engineering, with numerous companies in conventional and renewable energy sectors.
If you are interested in taking on the challenge of transitioning to low-carbon technology, designing sustainable infrastructure or harnessing the power of AI and automation to revolutionise healthcare and manufacturing, then we look forward to you joining to our engineering community.
Postgraduate Degree Programmes
Short Courses
The School of Engineering also offers an exciting range of online Short Courses, exploring the most popular aspects of our MSc programmes. These online Short Courses are normally the equivalent to one-twelfth of an MSc programme and provide an opportunity to gain advanced knowledge in key subject areas. The credits gained by successfully completing an online Short Course can be counted towards one or more of our MSc programmes.