General Engineering

The University of Sheffield · Sheffield

Qualification

Degree

Length

3 yrs

UK fees / yr

£9,535

Study

Full-time

Worth knowing: about 25% of students don't make it past first year here - ask the uni what support they offer.

Robin · your guide

Here's the honest picture on this course - what you'd study, whether you'd likely get in, what it pays, and where it leads. Everything's real data.

About this course

Gain both academic knowledge and practical experience on this unique interdisciplinary degree, taught by world-leading academics across seven departments. Develop a strong understanding across engineering disciplines and how they all fit together, before specialising in your area of interest. Gain both academic knowledge and practical experience on this unique interdisciplinary degree, taught by world-leading academics across seven departments.

Develop a strong understanding across engineering disciplines and how they all fit together, before specialising in your area of interest. Sheffield is one of the top five UK universities for the subject, according to The Guardian University Guide 2025. Study here and you have the option to specialise in six streams across the Faculty of Engineering – from aerospace to software engineering.

Get support from across the faculty and sample engineering from many different angles to help you decide your future engineering discipline.

Could you get in?

The grades students arrived with

128-143 pts5%

160-175 pts45%

176-191 pts30%

192-207 pts5%

208-223 pts15%

How they qualified

95% got in with alevel. The rest came in a mix of ways:

alevel95%

other5%