Program Overview

BEng Manufacturing Engineering Top-up

Key Facts

• UCAS code: H702
• Start dates: September 2025 / September 2026
• Location: New College Swindon
• Course length: Full time: 1 year
• School(s): School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Overview

The Top-up Degree in Manufacturing Engineering is designed to offer flexible learning patterns and enable students with a relevant foundation degree to continue to progress on to a BEng(Hons) top-up programme in Manufacturing Engineering and practice in a career as an Incorporated Engineer (IEng). It is expected that the majority of students on this programme will continue from the FdEng in Manufacturing Engineering at New College Swindon, thus providing a continuous programme from Level 4 through to Level 6.

The programme has been developed to answer the needs of industry which has experienced an increasing demand for employees with the right vocational knowledge and skills and with the independence to add value to organisations. Graduates from the programme will have a wider and deeper range of skills and knowledge than their contemporaries on more traditional courses that will help them progress and add value in the workplace or help them to continue their studies to a higher-level degree course.

Tuition Fees

• Tuition fee level: Tuition fees for home undergraduate students in will be confirmed by the Government later in 2025 and will be updated on our website as soon as the information becomes available.
• Fees for International students: Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.
• How and when to pay: Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.

Additional Costs

• Print / binding costs: From £30
• Books: £20-60 per book
• Accommodation fees in Brookes Letting: £94-265 per week
• Accommodation fees in university halls: £122-180 per week
• Graduation costs: Typically £0-200
• Travel to and from university: From £10

Funding Your Studies

• Oxford Brookes Bursary for Continuing Students
• Undergraduate maintenance loans for part-time UK students
• Undergraduate maintenance loans for full-time UK students
• Undergraduate tuition fee loans for UK students
• Oxford Brookes Bursary for New Students

How to Apply

• Entry requirements: Entry onto the top-up year requires successful completion of a relevant Foundation Degree in Engineering at one of Oxford Brookes’ partner colleges.
• English language requirements: Please see the University's standard English language requirements.
• Terms and conditions of enrolment: When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment.
• Credit transfer: Many of our courses consider applications for entry part-way through the course for students who have credit from previous learning or relevant professional experience.

Application Process

• Full time Home (UK) applicants: Apply through UCAS
• International applicants: Apply direct to the University
• Full time international applicants: Can also apply through UCAS