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MSc Aerospace Engineering / Careers
Year of entry: 2025
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Career opportunities
With a strong focus on employability and excellent industry connections, this course is designed to provide you with the opportunities and options needed to enter a career in the area you're truly passionate about.
Upon completion of this course, you will be in a strong position to seek employment with companies such as: Airbus, Rolls Royce, GE Aviation, Airbus, Bombardier Transportation, BAE Systems, MBDA, SAFRAN, GKN Aerospace, Spirit, Finmeccanica, EDF, BP, Schlumberger, and more.
Not only are our graduates the most sought-after in the UK (THE Graduate Market, 2023), but the UK Aerospace sector is currently the second largest in the world. Furthermore, each year our careers fairs, workshops and presentations attract more than 600 exhibitors and 20,000 visitors to target Manchester graduates - so you will be able to explore your avenues across a multitude of sectors.
Example careers:
- Aerospace Engineer
- Airframe Manufacturer
- Defence Laboratory Specialist
- Drone Developer
- Engineering Consultant
- Gas Turbine and Aircraft Systems Specialist
- Postgraduate Research
- Project Management
- Satellite Engineer
- Spacecraft Systems Engineer
Accrediting organisations
This course is currently in the process of being re-accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Aeronautical Society under license from the UK regulator, the Engineering Council for the 2025 to 2030 intakes. The process of renewing accreditation takes place regularly, at intervals of no greater than 5 years, to assure continued compliance with the academic requirements of professional accreditation. This course has been consistently accredited by the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers since 2009, and the outcome of the current re-accreditation process for September 2025 entry is due to be confirmed in June after which we will be able to update you further.
Students completing an IMechE/RAeS accredited degree are deemed to have met part or all of the academic requirements for registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer and are in a strong position to move on to achieve professional engineering status after a period of initial professional development in industry.
The accredited MSc will meet, in part, the exemplifying academic benchmark requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer. Accredited MSc graduates who also have a BEng (Hons) accredited for CEng will be able to show that they have satisfied the educational base for CEng registration.