Professional Engineering MSc

If you want to become a chartered engineer, this online masters will help you build evidence of further learning. After an audit of your professional development so far, we tailor the content to your needs through work-based projects. This MSc was developed with the Engineering Council and is recognised by many professional bodies.

This course has 3 intakes per year: September, January and May.

Developed with the Engineering Council, this online engineering degree is a highly flexible, part-time route to obtaining an engineering Masters degree without taking time off work.

Become a Chartered Engineer

Through the combination of the MSc Professional Engineering and work based learning you will achieve the academic qualifications and professional development required to apply for registration as a Chartered Engineer.

Becoming a Chartered Engineer provides international recognition of your expertise to further advance your career and employability. It may increase your earning potential and provide you with a greater influence within your organisation and industry.

Learn from a university at the heart of UK engineering

Derby is located at the very centre of the UK and is home to engineering giants like Rolls Royce, Bombardier and Toyota. Coming from a city filled with engineering history and at the birth place of the industrial revolution, we know a thing or two about engineering.

Interactive and practical learning

This online learning degree is specifically designed by our expert online tutors and contains plenty of opportunities to interact with tutors and other students through online discussion forums, virtual class room sessions and more traditional forms of communication such as email and Skype.

Supported learning

In addition to our academic teams, you’ll be appointed a dedicated online learner advisor who will support you on any non-academic issues throughout your course.

You’ll also benefit from many other university support services such as student wellbeing, eLibrary and resource centre, IT support and careers and employment service.

This course is recognised by a wide range of engineering institutions such as ICE, IMechE, IET through the Engineering Council.

Through the combination of work based learning and our MSc Professional Engineering you can achieve the academic qualifications and professional development required to apply for registration as a Chartered Engineer.

For entry onto this course you will require:

• BSc/BEng(Hons) degree which is accredited for either IEng or as part of CEng
• Minimum of two years’ relevant industrial or engineering experience
• Employment within a relevant engineering role

If you don’t have a degree or an accredited degree, we can consider your application if supported by significant industrial experience within the engineering sector.

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Becoming a Chartered Engineer will give you the international recognition of your expertise to further advance your career and employability, increase your earning potential and provide you with greater influence within your industry and organisation.