Top of the class

We are the top ranked university for Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the Sunday Times' latest Good University Guide.

We are also very pleased to report that in addition to the Sunday Times result, in the latest National Student Survey (NSS), 96% of our final year students said they were satisfied with their course, including a 100% student satisfaction score for students taking the MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The NSS results - which can be seen at Unistats - also show that our graduates have a very high average starting salary of £28,000, and a high success rate in finding employment or going on to further study. Ninety-five per cent of MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering students employed are working in a professional or managerial job six months after graduation.

NSS data is based on the opinions of participating final year undergraduates across most UK universities and colleges, on a number of issues from personal development support to how intellectually stimulating students find their courses.

The NSS data also informs the new Key Information Sets (KIS) which are available from the Unistats website. This information is provided for every undergraduate course across almost all English and Welsh higher education institutions to help prospective students make an informed choice about their course.

Results tables

Sunday Times rankings for Electrical & Electronic Engineering

The Sunday Times Good University Guide (subscription required)

Unistats results for our degree courses:

• MEng Electrical & Electronic Engineering

• MEng Electronic & Information Engineering

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Welcoming these results Professor Tim Green, director of undergraduate studies, said “I am delighted that our students have rated our teaching programmes so highly and thrilled for them for their successes in launching the next stages of their careers. The recognition of the efforts of our staff to provide a high-quality and rigorous education in engineering is reward for the care with which we have designed and delivered the programmes.”

Real engineering for the real world

Professor Green attributes this success to the design of our degree courses as much as the teaching. "As the Unistats and KIS data show, we try to carefully balance the teaching of methods of analysis with the development of creativity and innovation skills. In the early years the timetable is busy with formal classroom teaching and traditional exams. As the years progress, the emphasis moves in favour of project work and coursework assessment that develop design and synthesis skills.

We have worked hard over the last three years to ensure the teaching programme achieves the right balance. The benefits are seen in the very high proportion of our graduates in professional jobs (with very good starting salaries) or moving on to higher degrees (such as PhDs). This year we have launched a 6-month industrial placement as part of the degree that will give graduates invaluable experience of real-world engineering and, we believe, even better employment prospects."