Electronic and Electrical Engineering, MEng (Hons)

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Course Overview

From the world wide web and global mobile phone networks, to digital music players and renewable energy sources, this subject shapes the everyday world around us. 

Highly skilled Electronic and Electrical Engineering graduates are in high demand and have opportunities to work all over the world.

This degree will train you for a career in electrical, electronic and nano-engineering positions across a wide range of sectors. The MEng is a four-year integrated degree that goes beyond the BEng, offering advanced technical and leadership skills, deeper specialisation, and a direct pathway to professional accreditation

As you progress, your developing analytical abilities will combine with hands-on experience of advanced specialist equipment, establishing skills which are vital to securing employment in the wider industry.

 

Why Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Swansea?

  • 9th in the UK for Academic Support* (NSS 2024)
  • 13th in the UK for Graduate Prospects (The Guardian University Guide 2025)
  • Top 301 - 350 in the World for Engineering - Electrical & Electronic (QS World University Rankings 2025)

This course offers you the opportunity to spend a YEAR IN INDUSTRY (UCAS H601), in the UK or overseas, giving valuable workplace experience as well as a salary that is currently over £15,000 on average. Support and guidance is provided to help secure your placement.

We also offer you the option to spend a YEAR ABROAD (UCAS H600) at a partner university which enriches the degree, giving a valuable cultural experience which can broaden your horizons when seeking employment.

* Based on the average positivity score across questions 15 to 16 in the NSS 2024 when ranked against universities featured in the Times Good University Guide.

Your Electronic and Electrical Engineering Experience

Our state-of-the-art facilities inform much teaching and research. You can gain practical experience working with digital oscilloscopes, soldering stations and signal generators.

You will become familiar with a number of laboratories, from our own electronics laboratory and the PCB fabrication facility, to Wolfson Power Electronics and Power Systems laboratory (PEPS), and the Smart City and Antenna lab.

At Swansea you work in and around a thriving research environment. Internationally renowned research is undertaken in power electronics, telecommunications, nanotechnology and biometrics.

Niall's experience studying Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Swansea

Electronic and Electrical Engineering Employment Opportunities

Graduates of Electronic and Electrical Engineering are set on course for a range of stimulating opportunities. Your future could lie in any of the following roles: 

  • Broadcast Engineer
  • Control and Instrumentation Engineer
  • IT Consultant
  • Network Engineer
  • Systems Analyst
  • Multimedia Programmer

Swansea graduates in Electronic and Electrical Engineering have become senior executives of multinational companies, progressing to organisations such as the Ministry of Defence, Jaguar Land Rover and Babcock International.

Many of our graduates also go on to have interesting and varied careers at companies such as, Tata Steel, Renishaw, Siemens, Babcock, Dyson, GE Power, Ericsson, MOD and Airbus.

Modules

You will mostly study a set series of 10-credit modules, culminating in a final year 30-credit research project.

Conor explains his modules in Year 1 Electronic and Electrical Engineering


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