Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Electrical and electronic engineering is one of the broadest and most consequential engineering disciplines, driving innovation across consumer electronics, communications, medical devices, renewable energy, autonomous systems, and transportation. Every smartphone, every data centre, every electric vehicle, and every power grid depends on the work of electrical and electronic engineers, making it a field whose graduates have opportunities across virtually every sector of the modern economy.

At the University of Bristol, this three-year full-time BEng provides a rigorous grounding in the core foundations of the discipline. You will study circuit theory, electromagnetism, digital systems, signal processing, control systems, and semiconductor electronics, developing both the theoretical understanding and the practical skills that professional engineers need. Bristol is one of the UK's leading research-intensive universities, and its electrical and electronic engineering department reflects that through a curriculum informed by cutting-edge research in areas including alternative energy, transport electrification, medical engineering, and communications.

The programme develops your analytical and problem-solving capabilities alongside the design and experimental skills that define an engineer.

Bristol's location in a region with strong technology, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing industries provides excellent connections between your academic training and the professional environments you will enter after graduation.

Graduates go on to careers as electrical engineers, electronics engineers, systems engineers, telecommunications specialists, and software developers across sectors including energy, defence, aerospace, healthcare, and consumer technology. The degree provides a foundation for progression to chartered engineer status and for postgraduate study in electrical engineering or a specialist area. Bristol graduates are well regarded by employers across the technology and engineering sectors, and many go on to work at the forefront of the digital and energy transitions that are reshaping the global economy.