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University degree

General Engineering

The University of Leicester
Qualification
Degree
Length
4 yrs
UK fees / yr
£9,535
Study
Full-time
Worth knowing: about 24% of students don't make it past first year here - ask the uni what support they offer.
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About this course

From prosthetic limbs to exploratory spacecraft, engineers design and build extraordinary machines, products and systems. But doing so often takes more than specialist expertise. In this general engineering degree, you’ll take a multidisciplinary approach and will personalise your course by choosing the areas that fascinate you most.

The browser you are using is no longer supported and for that reason you will not get the best experience when using our website. From prosthetic limbs to exploratory spacecraft, engineers design and build extraordinary machines, products and systems. But doing so often takes more than specialist expertise.

In this general engineering degree, you’ll take a multidisciplinary approach and will personalise your course by choosing the areas that fascinate you most. 13th in the UK for General Engineering (The Complete University Guide 2027) Professional engineers have a high degree of specialist knowledge but increasingly they use a broad approach to problem-solving across a range of engineering disciplines. This is coupled with an awareness of environmental, social, legal, economic and regulatory aspects of the problem at hand.

Could you get in?
The grades students arrived with
48-63 pts1%
64-79 pts10%
80-95 pts48%
96-111 pts20%
112-127 pts7%
128-143 pts2%
144-159 pts4%
160-175 pts2%
How they qualified
95% got in with alevel. The rest came in a mix of ways:
alevel95%
baccalaureate5%
Could I get in? Try your grades
120 UCAS pts
Pay & prospects
76%
Continue past first year
What graduates earn over time
£30,000
3 years on
£37,500
5 years on
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Where this degree can lead
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When you're ready, the full entry requirements and application are on The University of Leicester's own site.
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