Master of Science - Electronic Engineering (H60071)

MSc Electronic Engineering (H60071) advances graduates into modern hardware practice: embedded systems and IoT, digital signal processing, FPGA-based digital design, communications systems, and power electronics, on a 12-month structure with an optional extended stage and both September and January entries recorded in the source.

Laboratory work anchors every module — students design, simulate, build and debug on industry toolchains, from microcontroller firmware through HDL synthesis to RF measurement on bench instrumentation in the Queens Building engineering labs. The individual project produces working hardware or a rigorously validated design, and DMU’s engineering research groups in signal processing and embedded intelligence feed project topics down into the taught cohort.

Equipment access differentiates the course materially: bench time on spectrum analysers, logic analysers and embedded development kits is scheduled per student rather than demonstrated from the front, and the January intake — unusual for engineering master’s in the UK — gives candidates with spring-declared Indian results a same-year start option recorded explicitly in the portal export. Fee parity across the engineering suite holds here too at £18,100.

Employment candour: the UK electronics sector is smaller than software but persistently short of embedded engineers, with graduate pay at £28,000–£33,000; the complication for international students is the defence-heavy employer base, where clearance requirements exclude recent arrivals, so the practical targets are automotive electrification around the Midlands, medical devices and consumer IoT. Post-study, this taught master’s confers Graduate Route permission — two years for applications by 31 December 2026, 18 months thereafter — with dependants excluded on taught programmes.