Chemical Engineering

Heriot-Watt University

Qualification

Degree

Length

5 yrs

UK fees / yr

£9,535

Study

Full-time

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About this course

Study MEng Chemical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. The five year course gives students flexible career options to specialise. Learn more.

Heriot-Watt is ranked 1st in the UK based on overall student satisfaction (National Student Survey 2024) and Top 200 in the world (2026 World University Subject Rankings). Our MEng programme explores the fundamentals of chemical and process engineering. This grounding in science, maths and engineering will provide you with both the theoretical and practical abilities highly sought after by industry.

After graduation, you can build upon these skills to become a professional engineer. The MEng programme is a five-year degree which shares the same first four years with the BEng programme. You choose which route to follow at the end of your 4th year, giving you the flexibility to decide which degree best suits your career ambitions.

The final year of the MEng programme offers a range of advanced courses to broaden and deepen students’ understanding of chemical and process engineering. Students study optional courses from a range of specialist engineering subjects along with an extensive research project. Final year MEng students also undertake a commercial tender-based exercise taking on the role of an engineering design house pitching for business to our industrial advisory board.

Could you get in?

The grades students arrived with

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