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Engineering courses

Start your journey towards becoming a professional engineer with an engineering course from The Open University. Recognised and accredited by professional engineering institutions, our courses cover a broad range of engineering topics, such as engineering design, mechanical engineering, electronics, design and more.

Why study Engineering with The Open University?

Specialise your studies in the area that interests you with our broad, multi-disciplinary approach to engineering. You’ll join more than 10,000 students benefiting from our work with employers and professional engineering institutions to ensure our curriculum is fit for purpose and reflects current practice.

Just a few of the reasons to study engineering with The Open University:

Your degree will be accredited by several leading professional engineering institutions.
You’ll attend week-long residential schools, focusing on laboratory and field work, where you’ll develop invaluable practical skills.
You’ll have access to OpenEngineering Labs that allow you to remotely operate research-grade equipment, so you can gather and analyse your own real data.

Careers in Engineering

Advances in new technologies have brought with them a growing demand for skilled and qualified engineering graduates. The UK’s Department for Energy and Climate Change has estimated that the renewable energy sector alone could create 500,000 new jobs by 2020. With so much opportunity, what’s stopping you from starting your future in engineering?

The OU could be the start to your career in:

Mechanical engineering
Project management
Environmental engineering
Technical journalism and patent work

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Diploma Widely recognised qualification. Equivalent to the first two thirds of an honours degree. Enhance your professional and technical skills or extend your knowledge and understanding of a subject. Study for interest or career development. Top up to a full honours degree in just two years.

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Certificates Widely recognised qualification. Equivalent to the first third of an honours degree. Study for interest or career development. Shows that you can study successfully at university level. Count it towards further qualifications such as a DipHE or honours degree.

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