Master of Science - Engineering Management (H1N171)

MSc Engineering Management (H1N171) is the bridge from engineer to engineering leader: operations and production management, project management for technical environments, quality systems, lean and continuous improvement, engineering economics and finance, and technology strategy, taught on a 12-month structure with an optional extended stage and dual September/January entry.

The course design assumes technical undergraduates and manages them toward commercial judgement — assessments include a factory-improvement simulation run over successive rounds, cost-benefit cases for capital equipment decisions, and quality-system audits against ISO-style frameworks. The final project is frequently an operations-improvement study, and the extended pathway accommodates industry-linked versions of it.

The H1N171 code marks a course DMU positions deliberately between its business and engineering faculties, and the teaching team draws from both — operations academics alongside practising engineers — so the finance and strategy content is taught in engineering vocabulary rather than translated from an MBA syllabus, a difference students with technical bachelor’s degrees consistently report finding easier to absorb. September and January windows both appear in the portal export, at the standard £18,100 engineering fee.

Position it honestly: engineering management master’s degrees are plentiful in the UK and employers read them as intent rather than experience, so the realistic first roles are project, quality and improvement engineering at £27,000–£31,000, with the management step following demonstrated delivery; Midlands manufacturing remains the natural hunting ground. As a taught award the course carries Graduate Route rights — 18 months for applications made from 1 January 2027 onward, two years for those before — and dependants cannot accompany taught-course students.