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Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering is the most versatile engineering discipline, with a high and growing demand from industry for graduate Mechanical Engineers.

Our accredited degree will place you at the heart of modern industry and provide you with career opportunities in a range of sectors such as aerospace, automotive and rail, energy and power generation and manufacturing engineering.

We offer both BEng and MEng Mechanical Engineering courses and both programmes can be taken with a sandwich year in industry, giving you the real-life experience employers want. Our courses are accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

My Nissan placement helped me understand where my knowledge and experience as a student fits into a global company. Sometimes the most elegant engineering solutions won't work in a competitive market. It gives you an appreciation of those problems and how to solve them.

Sarah-Jane Tonks, BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering

Where mechanical engineering can take you

Reasons to study mechanical engineering

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Ben Whiteside explains why you should study BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bradford.

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