What you can study

Our focus is on equipping students to tackle real-world engineering problems. At Bristol, you will benefit from access to the largest robotics lab in the UK, the Hele-Shaw fluid mechanics laboratory, and our state-of-the-art engines and propulsion laboratory. 

You will find units on:

• design and manufacture
• dynamics and control
• materials
• energy and fluid flow

Pre-requisites

At UK universities, students specialise from their first year and rarely take units outside their degree subject. This means that:

• Year 1 units are suitable for all students.
• Year 2 units require some university study in the discipline.
• Year 3 units require a strong background in the discipline.
• Masters-level units require three years of study in the discipline.

Subject pathway students

If you have been nominated to Bristol on the Study Abroad (Mechanical Engineering pathway), you must take the majority of your credits from this guide.

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Masters-level