MSc Engineering Management
Operate effectively within this strategically important part of professional engineering
Year of entry: 2025 (September)
Develop your innovation and analytical skills to become an effective manager with an engineering firm.
All new technologies, products and services require careful management to take them from the concept stage to commercial success. This course will enable you to operate within a strategically important part of professional engineering, irrespective of the technical area.
The course is taught by internationally leading experts and practising managers to ensure you master not only the theory of management tools and techniques, but also how they are applied in real engineering situations.
Accreditation
Accredited by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) under licence from the UK regulator, the Engineering Council.
Some employers recruit preferentially from accredited degrees, and an accredited degree is likely to be recognised by other countries that are signatories to international accords.
All I can say is the courses have exceeded my expectations. The lectures are not merely delivering content that we can read in books, but interactive activities also help us to develop critical thinking skills.
Professional development
Our Engineering Management Masters course follows a carefully designed Professional Development Framework, created in collaboration with key contributors from industry, research and academia. The framework will help you develop transferable skills and professional behaviours, which will support your studies and future career.
Through an intensive induction programme and ongoing masterclasses, workshops and activities, you will become:
- a more personally effective individual
- a more confident communicator
- a stronger team leader
- a more effective user of IT
- adept at research, reporting and managing data.
I have discovered new abilities and developed many skills, including leadership, emotional intelligence and most importantly, the capability to adapt to changes. All these skills have given me confidence and boosted my expertise to set up for the next level of my career plan in the industrial sector.
Course content
You'll develop a thorough grounding in aspects of management relevant to the technical manager, creative and innovative thinking, and a deep understanding of how to apply management thinking to state-of-the-art technology issues.
A major group project towards the end of the course will help you gain practical experience of skills applicable to management of engineering functions within companies, and to develop your research, team working, problem-solving, personal effectiveness and communication skills for academic and professional purposes.
Modules
Core modules:
- Product Design, Development and Commercialisation
- Circular Economy and Sustainable Engineering
- Research Design, Strategies and Data Analytics
- Strategic Management and Decision Making for Engineers
- Global Business Dynamics and Supply Chain Management
Option modules
You will study one option module. Examples can be found below. Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
Learning outcomes
Every course at York is built on a distinctive set of learning outcomes. These will give you a clear understanding of what you will be able to accomplish at the end of the course and help you explain what you can offer employers. Our academics identify the knowledge, skills, and experiences you'll need upon graduation and then design the course to get you there.
Learning outcomes for this course
- Subject Knowledge: Conduct research in business management that takes the full breadth of management and applied engineering to advance the state of knowledge in organisations, systems, algorithms, and devices.
- Engineering Analysis: Extract and critically evaluate literature and other data about complex business systems through analytical and computational methods and modelling.
- Engineering Design: Create innovative and optimised business solutions to address real-world opportunities in industrial management and technology by synthesising novel research-based ideas into business models.
- Practical Skills: Apply professional skills of project management, personal management, team working and communication combined with an understanding of business systems and components, to solve and independently propose innovative critical business solutions to technically challenging problems.
- Technical Communication: Debate, defend and contextualise information in a succinct and technically accurate manner for business people, engineers and non-technical audiences, and to write and interpret business documentation.
- Management & Personal Development: Proficiently manage themselves, teams and complex projects in preparation for technical careers as reflective leaders in engineering management.
Fees and funding
Annual tuition fees for 2025/26
| Study mode | UK (home) | International and EU |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time (1 year) | £13,300 | £31,900 |
Students on a Student Visa are not currently permitted to study part-time at York.
Fees information
UK (home) or international fees? The level of fee that you will be asked to pay depends on whether you're classed as a UK (home) or international student. Check your fee status.
Find out more information about tuition fees and how to pay them.
Additional costs
All course text books and materials are available in the library or via the VLE. Depending on how you work, you may wish to pay for printing of notes and other material.
Funding information
Discover your funding options to help with tuition fees and living costs.
We'll confirm more funding opportunities for students joining us in 2025/26 throughout the year.
If you've successfully completed an undergraduate degree at York you could be eligible for a 10% Masters fee discount.
Funding opportunities
Chevening Scholarships
We are pleased to work with Chevening Scholars to offer funding for our Masters programmes. Chevening Scholarships provide one year of fully-funded postgraduate study in the UK for international (including EU) students. The scholarships are open to early and mid-career professionals who have the potential to become future leaders.
If available, subject-specific scholarship opportunities for our taught MSc courses will be advertised on the School funding information page.
The MSc was a great experience and set me up well for work life. Not only did I have the chance to learn from very experienced lecturers from different fields of management science, I was also able to work with students from all over the world. To sum it up, I had an incredibly good year on the MSc Engineering Management programme.
Programme Operations Manager, Amazon
Teaching and assessment
You’ll work with world‐leading academics who’ll challenge you to think independently and excel in all that you do. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace.
Teaching format
You'll learn through a range of teaching formats:
- lectures
- intensive guest lecture sessions
- small group working
- masterclasses
- workshops
Facilities
You will have the use of laboratories equipped with dedicated computing equipment.
Teaching location
The School of Physics, Engineering and Technology is based on Campus West. The majority of teaching takes place within Campus West.
About our campus
Our beautiful green campus offers a student-friendly setting in which to live and study, within easy reach of the action in the city centre. It's easy to get around campus - everything is within walking or pedalling distance, or you can always use the fast and frequent bus service.
Assessment and feedback
You'll be assessed via a range of assessment methods, the summative methods (assessments that count towards your final grade) include:
- Closed book examinations
- Open book examinations
- Assignments (business reports, research-led reports, case study analysis, reflective essays)
- Group and individual oral presentations
We also use a range of formative assessment methods (assessments that do not count towards your final grade but which provide you with useful information about how you are progressing) including:
- Posters
- Quizzes
- Case study analysis
- Peer public speaking assessment
- Short (New Scientist style) magazine article
- Group and individual oral presentations
Careers and skills
You'll leave equipped to follow one of three broad career paths: working in industry as a first or second line engineering manager; starting your own technology or engineering based company; or progressing into a research-focused career. Some of our previous students have also progressed into consulting-related careers.
Career opportunities
- Electronics engineer
- Engineering manager
- Signalling designer
- Management consultant
- Product engineer
- Technical engineer
A number of our Engineering Management alumni are now in senior positions in companies around the world. These have included:
- Huawei
- Samsung
- Nissan
- Amazon
- PWC
- Infosys
- National Highways
- Nestle
- Ubisoft
- Alten Ltd
- Aditya Birla Group
- Jaguar Land Rover
Transferable skills
- Problem-solving
- Effective communication
- Teamwork
- Project management
- Leadership
- Research design
- Digital literacy
- Creativity
Entry requirements
| Qualification | Typical offer |
|---|---|
| Undergraduate degree | 2:2 or equivalent in an Engineering programme (such as Electronics/Electrical, Computer Science, Civil, Mechanical, Automation) or an Engineering Management programme. Applications are also welcomed from candidates with high marks in relevant modules or appropriate industrial experience. |
| International pre-masters programme | Pre-masters from our International Pathway College |
| Other international qualifications | Equivalent qualifications from your country |
English language
If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:
| Qualification | Minimum requirement |
|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic and Indicator) | 6.0, minimum 5.5 in each component |
| Cambridge CEFR | B2 First: 169, with no less than 162 in each component |
| Oxford ELLT | 6, minimum of 5 in each component |
| Oxford Test of English Advanced | 126, minimum 116 in each component |
| Duolingo | 105, minimum 95 in all other components |
| LanguageCert SELT | B2 with 33/50 in each component |
| LanguageCert Academic | 65 with a minimum of 60 in each component |
| Kaplan Test of English Language | 444-477, with 410-443 in all other components |
| Skills for English | B2: Pass with Merit overall, with Pass in each component |
| PTE Academic | 55, minimum 51 in each component |
| TOEFL | 79, minimum 17 in Listening, 18 in Reading, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing |
| Trinity ISE III | Pass in all components |
For more information see our postgraduate English language requirements.
If you haven't met our English language requirements
You may be eligible for one of our pre-sessional English language courses. These courses will provide you with the level of English needed to meet the conditions of your offer.
The length of course you need to take depends on your current English language test scores and how much you need to improve to reach our English language requirements.
After you've accepted your offer to study at York, we'll confirm which pre-sessional course you should apply to via You@York.
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