As an Engineering student at Oxford, you can keep your options open and not have to specialise in a specific type of Engineering straight away. This means you will have time to think about which area interests you most, as well as gaining experience across the subject. At Oxford our undergraduate degree is based on a unified course in Engineering Science. In the third and fourth years you can then choose to specialise into one of six branches of engineering: Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Information and Mechanical. In third-year, you will get to work on a design project with other students; past projects have included Electric Formula Student Race Cars, Semi-Autonomous Wheelchairs, and developing renewable energy devices to extract energy from tidal flow.

At Univ, you will attend tutorials, where you will work with a carefully-chosen tutor in a small group, and they will help you gain a full understanding of content covered in lectures. Univ typically admits a relatively large group of students for the subject, allowing for a supportive and vibrant community.

Resources

If you are considering applying for Engineering Science, a number of resources you might find useful to explore beyond the school curriculum can be found on Univ’s Staircase12 pages, including the Reading Bank and Resource Hub.

Univ tutor, Tom Povey, has written an excellent book packed with Physics and Maths problems to help you prepare to apply to a competitive university; Professor Povey’s Perplexing Problems (2015) is available from, amongst others, amazon.co.uk and Blackwells. Read our review here.

Cambridge University have an excellent resource to support students looking to apply for engineering at top universities, see: i-want-to-study-engineering.org