This 4-year chemical engineering degree fully meets the educational requirements for chartered engineer status. Demand is high for chemical engineering graduates. You’ll have excellent job prospects in sectors such as food, energy, pharmaceuticals and biochemical, and you’ll be one step ahead in your career as a chartered engineer. The course focuses on sustainable chemical engineering. You'll graduate with the skills to go straight into the workplace and help the world transition to a more sustainable future.

Chemical engineering is a multi-disciplinary branch of engineering that focuses on using chemicals and materials to design sustainable processes and giving them practical applications in the real world. This course has a particular emphasis on employability, sustainability and design.

The skills you’ll gain include:

• computational methods
• reaction engineering
• thermofluids
• commercialising chemistry

On this Chemical Engineering MEng degree you’ll be able to:

• take part in a challenging group design project
• complete an optional extra year on a paid industrial placement
• learn real-world skills with our dedicated computer suite and simulation software
• use our virtual control room to gain experience working in a chemical plant
• select from a range of specialist modules

As part of this degree you’ll complete a chemical engineering advanced research project. You’ll be able to draw on our expertise in low-carbon technology, fine chemicals, green energy and water/wastewater engineering to complete your research.

As a chemical engineering graduate you’ll be qualified to take up roles as:

• process engineer
• energy consultant
• thermo-fluid engineer
• quality assurance specialist
• environmental engineer
• biochemical engineer
• food processing expert
• pharmaceutical engineer