Automotive Engineering with Business Management MSc

Combine specialist knowledge in engineering with advanced business and management skills to impact the future of vehicle engineering in the automotive sector.

Our course allows you to advance your technical knowledge in areas such as propulsion systems and how their development influences vehicle engineering. You'll explore the impact of a range of applications and technologies, analysing past failures and predicting future challenges. Using a systems-thinking approach, you’ll look at wider issues affecting the automotive sector including moral, ethical and sustainability.

At the start of the course, we set you a topical automotive theme that carries through to group projects. This ensures that subject-based units are relevant to professional practice in industry. It also gives you the benefit of a personalised learning pathway.

Alongside engineering studies, you'll learn about business and management in industry, focusing on the automotive sector. This includes resource management, business processes and theory, and change management. All this helps you to develop skills useful for your future career, whatever that might be.

Throughout your degree, you'll collaborate on group projects with students across our suite of automotive courses. You’ll also tackle a real engineering management challenge with an industrial mentor on our industry-linked business consultancy project. Here, you’ll explore new and existing business models. This includes innovative and conscientious partnerships that balance economic growth with the impact of their activity on society.

Learn from experts in the field
We’ve carried out research in the automotive sector for over 40 years so you'll learn from academics contributing to the latest research in automotive engineering. They're dedicated to applying this knowledge to your learning experience so you get the benefit of their expertise. As well as academic support, you’ll benefit from our links with industry. Your consultancy project is sponsored by a company and supported by an industrial mentor.

Use specialist facilities
Throughout the course, you'll attend laboratory sessions run on our bespoke facilities that demonstrate the principles of current and future vehicles. You'll also be able to draw on the staff expertise and facilities of our new Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS).

From course to career
We expect graduates from this course to go on to work as managers in the automotive industry. You could work in roles that use your technical expertise and ability to manage resources at large vehicle manufacturers, tier 1 suppliers and large consultancies. Our past graduates secured jobs at companies such as AVL, JLR, McLaren Automotive and Rolls-Royce. They've held positions including:


• Component Engineer



• SQD Engineer



• Battery Cooling Component Engineer



• Control Systems Engineer