Mechanical Engineering

The University of Leicester

Qualification

Degree

Length

4 yrs

UK fees / yr

£9,535

Study

Full-time

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

Spacecraft and satellites. Reactors and robots. Mechanical engineering is at the core of most systems that move.

But how is technology improving their performance? To build the future, you need to keep up with it. And this degree will show you how.

The browser you are using is no longer supported and for that reason you will not get the best experience when using our website. 5th in the UK for Mechanical Engineering (The Daily Mail University Guide 2026) 6th in the UK for Mechanical Engineering (The Guardian University Guide 2026) Whether you study for the BEng or the MEng, your Mechanical Engineering degree will emphasise how mechanical engineering has been transformed by the use of powerful computer-aided design, prototyping and manufacturing tools and by the use of modern materials such as composites.

Could you get in?

The grades students arrived with

64-79 pts2%

96-111 pts33%

112-127 pts28%

128-143 pts14%

144-159 pts12%

160-175 pts5%

192-207 pts2%

How they qualified

90% got in with alevel. The rest came in a mix of ways:

alevel90%