Electronic Engineering, MEng (Hons), with industry placement

Our MEng Electronic Engineering degree offers an optional additional year in industry, typically after Year 2 or 3, which is evaluated by academics and experts. This experience enhances your employability by linking academic knowledge to real-world practices, providing a competitive advantage in the job market.The five-year programme builds skills in areas like computer processors, AI, and communications, with core modules in the first two years covering circuits, systems, programming, and mathematics. In later years, you can select from specialist options, undertake a group project addressing industry challenges, and complete an individual research project. The course is delivered in top-ranked facilities at Southampton, with strong career support and accreditation from the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Assessment includes exams, tests, presentations, and group work.

This four-year MEng programme with a year in industry will enable you to pursue a career in any area of the electronic engineering industry. It has been designed to maximise student choice by allowing you to tailor the degree structure to suit your own interests. During the first two years you will undertake a series of core modules, for example Circuits, Electronic Systems, Programming, Digital Systems and Devices, Fields, Forces and Materials, and Mathematics. In your third and fourth years you can choose from a wide range of optional modules that reflect the specialist areas of electrical engineering that will take you to the leading edge of technology sought by industry. You will also work on an individual project with one of our research groups which will allow you to work at the frontier of knowledge. For further details of our optional modules: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/electronic-engineering-degree-meng#modules