Luton, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 Aug 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
22 Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 16,900
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Designed in collaboration with professionals at the forefront of the industry, the course advances your technical knowledge and practical expertise while allowing you to explore cutting-edge technologies in a rapidly developing field. You prepare for the workplace through practice-based learning and hands-on sessions, applying what you learn to real-world situations and projects, and exploring your specialist interests with an Electrical Engineering MSc project of your choice.
Student experience
- Our course is designed in close collaboration with experts across the field, ensuring you gain up-to-the-minute knowledge and keep up with the latest industry breakthroughs.
- Study with a team of highly qualified, research-active teaching staff.
- Enhance your employability with our focus on developing key transferable skills such as effective communication; critical thinking; advanced analysis; and innovative problem-solving.
- Build knowledge and connections through field trips, interactive seminars and collaborative work opportunities with sector employers.
- Benefit from your own personal academic tutor.
Course accreditation
Formal accreditation for this programme will be awarded after a successful accreditation visit and subsequent approval from the IET’s Academic Accreditation Committee.
Why choose the School of Computer Science and Technology
| This MSc is aimed at graduates with a background in electronics who wish to follow a specialist career in digital electronics or communications. | Our block delivery course structure gives you year-round entry points and intermediate qualifications so you can tailor your learning to fit your life. |
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Postgraduate Scholarships
You can find all of our Postgraduate scholarships listed below.
- Postgraduate Global Subject-Specific Merit Scholarship
- Postgraduate Global Merit Scholarship
- Vice Chancellor's Scholarship for Postgraduate Students
- Chevening Scholarships
- Alumni Scholarship
Prompt Payment Discount
A discount of £500 is available for prompt payment of each year’s fees in full, before or at the point of registration, for both undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes.
Postgraduate research students who pay their full tuition fee before or at registration will receive a £1,000 discount on that year’s fees.
The tuition fee pre-payment of 65% will be calculated on the full, published tuition fees and will not take into account any scholarships, bursaries or awards. These will be applied to the remaining balance of your fees.
Sport Scholarships
Our sports scholarships are designed to develop and support talented students at the University of Bedfordshire.
Our sports scholarships on offer provide financial and performance support services that utilise the University’s outstanding facilities.
Please contact us for more information.
Curriculum
What will you study?
Studying our Electronic Engineering MSc course will equip you with knowledge and expertise in hardware techniques, technologies, and engineering. In practical areas of study, you will be provided with the fundamental concepts, principles and applications of electronic system design and optimisation as well as advanced digital signal processing in our Signals and Electronic Systems unit. Here, you will develop the skills to work with real-world problems by applying these advanced theoretical and practical skills. Similarly, you will develop your understanding and applied knowledge of technologies and techniques related to Digital, Microwave and Optical Communications that you will use to design solutions for complex problems with computational and analytical techniques. Furthermore, you will evaluate these methods and techniques in the context of their effectiveness and limitations.
You will also discover important emerging technologies and ideas within wireless, embedded and control systems to develop an in-depth understanding of the embedded system, wireless sensing, automatic control and microprocessor architecture in our Wireless and Embedded Systems unit. Finally, you will complete an MSc Project in Electronic Engineering that will allow you to bring your acquired skills and knowledge together in practice. You can take this opportunity to work on a topic of interest to you that is relevant to your field of study. To help you with this, you will be equipped with the skills and knowledge around Research Methodologies and Project Management that will prepare you to engage with scientific work, data analysis, establishing hypotheses and understanding research.
How will you be assessed?
The subject of electronic engineering involves the development of enhanced knowledge and understanding of technical concepts combined with the ability to apply these concepts with practical real world environments. With this is mind an assessment strategy that makes use of the most appropriate assessment technique (be that a written report research essay practical laboratory exercise practical log book presentation etc.) has been chosen.
The assessment methods for each unit on the course have been chosen as the best way for you to demonstrate that you have acquired the requisite technical knowledge and that you can apply this knowledge within a variety of real world context. In line with University guidelines each unit is assessed using two assessment points. In most cases this will involve the completion of a practical-based piece of work (typically a coursework assignment with a practical element) and a more formal assessment (typically a formal examination).
Career Opportunities
Once you have graduated you will be qualified to work in a wide range of associated fields including electronic systems design; as a development engineer; in software design; as an embedded systems engineer; communications engineer; product support engineer; or technical consultant.
Graduates from this course have moved on to work in the development of microcontroller-based embedded systems; computer systems engineering; robotics; automotive electronics; and the design of mobile and wireless communications systems.
You may also wish to continue your studies through an MSc by Research MPhil or PhD.