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Postgraduate study at Lancaster

Joining our global community of creative and critical thinkers is all about broadening your horizons, finding new perspectives and discovering new experiences.

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  • A global university

    Our students come from over 120 countries to live and learn from different cultures. We build meaningful relationships all around the world, through research and teaching, to ensure our students can experience a global education. We have overseas teaching partnerships in China, Germany, Ghana and Malaysia, and connections in many more countries. While at Lancaster our students join international societies, learn new languages, attend field trips and go on vacation travel abroad.

  • Enhancing careers

    Supporting students into employment or further study is central to our purpose. Throughout your time at Lancaster, we will help you to develop the skills you need to succeed in your future job search through CV writing workshops, mock interviews and the opportunity to work on company projects and undertake work experience. Our students graduate with the ability and experience to compete in a global job market.

  • Home away from home

    Lancaster is one of the few collegiate universities in the UK. These provide a friendly and welcoming community from day one and help you connect with people outside of your course. They provide social and study space, offer wellbeing support and have award-winning accommodation. The Graduate College is home to all our postgraduate students, creating a unique opportunity to mix with and learn about other cultures and disciplines.

Engineering and Technology at Lancaster

Wonder. Discover. Create.

Discover the wonders of the world and create your future, your way. Inspiring courses for tomorrow’s leading scientists. Our courses are designed to challenge and inspire you, opening your eyes to the possibilities that new learning can make available.

  • Flexible research

    Our flexible Engineering Masters by research allows you to set the direction of your research and identify training needs, working with a supervisor and often an industry contact. It is ideal for students with industrial experience who wish to work in a specific area, and prefer flexibility to the taught Masters programmes.

  • Project management

    Some of our programmes combine specialist engineering knowledge with project management theory and project experience to deliver a programme that provides the skills, knowledge, insights and experience needed to succeed and advance as a managerial engineer.

  • Bespoke research

    Our Natural Sciences Masters by research offer you an exciting opportunity to undertake and manage your own research project, gain valuable laboratory experience and forge important relationships in the professional sphere.

Specialist programmes

Lancaster's diverse community includes experts from across a range of engineering and technology disciplines. As such, we offer a variety of specialist programmes, including:

  • Electronic Engineering

    Silicon based electronics and embedded software now pervades the systems and devices we use on a daily basis and is the key enabling technology for internet based systems, automation and vehicle systems. Develop and enhance your understanding of electronic engineering to an advanced level, setting you apart in your career. Learn from world experts in areas that are crucial to the electronics sector over the next decade.

  • Mechanical Engineering

    Mechanical engineering combines scientific principles, mathematics, and realisation to design, develop and implement innovative solutions to contemporary problems. Our Mechanical Engineering programmes are comprised of advanced topics in mechanical engineering and are designed for engineers who wish to advance their skills and knowledge to a level appropriate for a professional engineer at the cutting-edge of their profession.

  • Materials Science

    This Masters by research offers you an exciting opportunity to undertake and manage your own research project, gain valuable laboratory experience and forge important relationships in the professional sphere. As well as developing intellectual, practical and transferable skills, this Masters will endow you with authoritative knowledge on a specific subject, which will underpin progression in your chosen career.

  • Process Automation

    Modern automation systems are complex and designing them, putting them together, getting them to work, operating and maintaining them is challenging. It requires a breadth and depth of knowledge across a range of disciplines involving a variety of theory and techniques, technology, practice and skills. This programme will develop your expertise in the design and development, application, operation and management of control and related systems. It is an exciting area to work in with no shortage of opportunities.

Our research: connected, collaborative, bold

Home to 1,500+ academics and research staff, and close to 2,000 postgraduate research students, Lancaster University aims to develop a culture and environment that enables world-class research. Our diverse community of researchers transform lives and communities, changing practice and thinking across the globe. Discover what drives our researchers to connect globally, push disciplinary boundaries, take risks, ask the big questions and improve the world around them.

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