Automotive Performance Engineering (Motorsport) with foundation year - BEng (Hons)
University of Greater Manchester
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The competitive nature of the motorsport industry drives engineers to innovate and develop novel ideas that power progress in the automotive industry. This exciting course aims to give you the theoretical, practical and hands-on knowledge and experience needed to overtake your competition in the field of motorsport engineering.The foundation year is the first year of this degree, offering an excellent grounding in the fundamentals of engineering, electronics and mathematics. It’s designed to ...Read more

The competitive nature of the motorsport industry drives engineers to innovate and develop novel ideas that power progress in the automotive industry. This exciting course aims to give you the theoretical, practical and hands-on knowledge and experience needed to overtake your competition in the field of motorsport engineering.The foundation year is the first year of this degree, offering an excellent grounding in the fundamentals of engineering, electronics and mathematics. It’s designed to prepare you for degree level study.Following on from this, our multi-disciplinary course brings together engineering principles and theories with design know-how, manufacturing skill and real-life racing experience with our partner teams. Our aim is to equip you with automotive performance engineering and motorsport-specific knowledge. We offer understanding in areas such as data analysis, performance optimisation, aerodynamics, safety considerations, whole vehicle and part design, and manufacturing. We also want to help you develop industry-focused commercial awareness and parallel business and management skills.

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Aleksander
05 Mar 25

School is brilliant, teachers are good, only let down is that Bolton is Bolton..Read more

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Daniel
29 Jan 24

Both the staff and students are all very friendly, if you ever need help with something there is always someone willing to do so. The university even though not in the best area..Read more

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£9,535 per year

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£9,535 per year

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Students from England

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This is the fee you pay if you live within England. Please note, this is subject to change. Please confirm the most up to date fee with the individual institution.

£9,535 per year

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Students from Scotland

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£9,535 per year

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Students from Wales

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This is the fee you pay if you live within Wales. Please note, this is subject to change. Please confirm the most up to date fee with the individual institution.

£9,535 per year

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Students from Northern Ireland

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This is the fee you pay if you live within Northern Ireland. Please note, this is subject to change. Please confirm the most up to date fee with the individual institution.

£9,535 per year

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Students from Channel Islands

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£17,500 per year

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£17,500 per year

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Aleksander
05 Mar 25
Motorsport Technology
School is brilliant, teachers are good, only let down is that Bolton is Bolton...
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Daniel
29 Jan 24
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Both the staff and students are all very friendly, if you ever need help with something there is always someone willing to do so. The university even though not in the best area...
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University of Greater Manchester
Deane Road Bolton Greater Manchester BL3 5AB United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Bolton  0.2 miles away
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