MSc in Engineering Leadership and Management

Engineers and technical graduates have the potential to reach the pinnacle of management and leadership.

Through external consultation with business and industry, this MSc in Engineering Leadership and Management has been designed to equip you with the vital graduate skills needed to succeed in an engineering management or leadership role.

This programme has been developed jointly by the School of Management and the College of Engineering. Students on the programme will benefit from being taught by both Management and Engineering academics and will be able to take advantage of the facilities within both faculties.

Why Engineering and Leadership Management at Swansea?

As a student on the Master’s course in Engineering and Leadership Management, you will gain and build upon the key skills and knowledge required for a management and/or leadership role in the engineering sector.

Your Engineering and Leadership Management Experience

Over this year-long course, you will develop the critical skills and knowledge required for a position in management or leadership role within the engineering sector.

Informed by the modern needs of industry, this multidisciplinary course contains key modules that deliver a broad introduction to management, alongside more detailed and engineering-specific subjects.

Traditional classroom teaching is combined with online learning, interactive workshops and seminars. Group work is a key component together with industry-focused projects. All modules are delivered on an “intense” basis, over isolated periods of two weeks.

Your studies will be nourished by an international community of over 500 postgraduate students and 120 research staff at the College of Engineering.

Further study support comes in the form of 24-hour access to our on-site library, advanced laboratories, a year-round programme of guest lectures, and dedicated postgraduate workrooms.

Swansea University was named University of the Year in the 2019 Whatuni Student Choice Awards for the second time in five years. As well as being crowned University of the Year, Swansea University took the top spot in the International category and placed top three in the Postgraduate, and Course and Lecturers categories. The Whatuni Student Choice Awards are voted for entirely by students, with more than 41,000 reviews and comments submitted from more than 160 UK institutions.

In the prestigious Guardian University Guide 2021, we are placed 24th in the UK and have won the Welsh University of the Year title for the second time in three years, cementing our position as Wales’ leading higher education institution.

We place our students at the heart of everything. As a result, we achieved a gold rating, the highest rating possible, in the national Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) and are ranked 6th in the UK for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey for 2020.

Our stunning waterfront campuses make us a desirable location for students and staff from around the world, and our multicultural community provides a global perspective, enabling those who join us to develop skills and knowledge that set them on successful and enriching careers.