This four-year course in Aerospace Engineering combines our taught course with an opportunity to spend your third year at an English-speaking partner university abroad. This course adds an overseas dimension that reflects the multinational nature of the modern aerospace industry.There is no direct entry into this course. If you achieve the required grades in your first two years and are selected, you will spend your third year at a partner institution abroad, for example in Sweden, the Netherlands, USA, Singapore or Australia. To find out more about studying abroad, visit Centre for Study Abroad. You will study a wide range of subjects, organised across four main themes: aerodynamics, structures and materials, dynamics and control, and systems and design. You will apply your knowledge and professional engineering skills to diverse applications such as fixed and rotary wing aircraft, spacecraft and space missions, and renewable energy.The first two years of the course are devoted to core concepts, which are taught via lectures, supported by practical experience through coursework, and computer and physical lab activities. In addition to core theoretical knowledge, you will develop wider skills, such as teamwork and presentation skills, as part of our design-build-test project.Your third year will be spent at our partner university the course content will be equivalent to the same year at Bristol. You will rejoin the course in Bristol for your final year.The degree is capped off by a group design project in the final year. This is an industrial-focused project where you will work in groups to undertake the design of a whole aerospace vehicle and replicate processes found in industry.

The Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) 5-yearly re-accreditation of the course is currently underway.