Manufacturing with Innovation and Enterprise MSc

London, Stratford (UCL East)

To follow your engineering ambitions and make your best ideas a reality, you’ll need both the technical abilities to imagine and create innovative products, and the business skills to translate your ideas into commercial success. Join us on a multidisciplinary one-year MSc that connects modern and future manufacturing techniques with entrepreneurship, so you can identify commercial opportunities and then design, manufacture and market the solutions people need.

UK students International students
Study mode
Full-time
UK tuition fees (2025/26)
£20,500
Overseas tuition fees (2025/26)
£39,800
Duration
1 calendar year
Programme starts
September 2025
Applications accepted
Applicants who require a visa: 14 Oct 2024 – 27 Jun 2025
Applications close at 5pm UK time

Applications open

Applicants who do not require a visa: 14 Oct 2024 – 29 Aug 2025
Applications close at 5pm UK time

Applications open

Entry requirements

A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

The English language level for this programme is: Level 1

UCL Pre-Master's and Pre-sessional English courses are for international students who are aiming to study for a postgraduate degree at UCL. The courses will develop your academic English and academic skills required to succeed at postgraduate level.

Further information can be found on our English language requirements page.

If you are intending to apply for a time-limited visa to complete your UCL studies (e.g., Student visa, Skilled worker visa, PBS dependant visa etc.) you may be required to obtain ATAS clearance. This will be confirmed to you if you obtain an offer of a place. Please note that ATAS processing times can take up to six months, so we recommend you consider these timelines when submitting your application to UCL.

Equivalent qualifications

Country-specific information, including details of when UCL representatives are visiting your part of the world, can be obtained from the International Students website.

International applicants can find out the equivalent qualification for their country by selecting from the list below. Please note that the equivalency will correspond to the broad UK degree classification stated on this page (e.g. upper second-class). Where a specific overall percentage is required in the UK qualification, the international equivalency will be higher than that stated below. Please contact Graduate Admissions should you require further advice.

About this degree

This multidisciplinary Master’s, co-designed and delivered by UCL Mechanical Engineering and the UCL School of Management, prepares you to bring inventions and ideas to market. With a technical emphasis on advanced materials science, you’ll be able to bring the latest research and technology to bear as you learn how to develop innovative products. 

You’ll acquire skills in advanced characterisation techniques to investigate the properties of different materials at the nano and micro scales. You'll also gain a solid grasp of the fundamentals of nanoengineering, through practical activities to build real-world engineering skills. 

You’ll then take this advanced manufacturing expertise and learn how to commercialise it. Working with leading academics, professional investors and experienced entrepreneurs, you’ll immerse yourself in entrepreneurial finance and enterprise skills. 

With optional modules in sustainability analysis or advanced computer applications, you can also tailor your studies to suit your entrepreneurial career ambitions, building the knowledge and skills you need to create and launch your future innovations.

Who this course is for

This programme is for students with a relevant first degree for example, in an engineering specialism, in physics or applied mathematics who wish to enhance their technical skills and knowledge, whilst developing an understanding of innovation and enterprise. It will prepare you to drive innovation and lead technology and engineering developments in your chosen career.

What this course will give you

This programme offers you the following benefits and opportunities.

  • A postgraduate degree from a top-ranked university. UCL is consistently ranked among the best universities globally (ranked 9th in the latest QS World University Rankings 2025), providing you with a prestigious qualification that is highly regarded by employers worldwide. 
  • The chance to study at UCL Mechanical Engineering, the first in the world to introduce laboratories in engineering education in 1878. 
  • A Master’s degree which is in the process of being accredited by the IMechE on behalf of the Engineering Council. This means that on completion of this MSc you could meet the academic requirements to register as a Chartered Engineer. 
  • Creative solutions for a better future, with lifecycle thinking approaches that ensure your innovations are inclusively designed with positive cultural, social and environmental impact. 
  • Skills to develop and implement advanced design materials, using computational modelling techniques. In-depth knowledge and understanding of emerging fields such as precision manufacturing. 
  • Collaboration opportunities with your peers and industry partners (where possible) on the group design project and individual projects, using everything you’ve learned to design and deliver a working prototype. Students have previously done individual projects on internships at Archipelago Technology and Afga, while other projects were mentored by Aricode and Domino Printing Sciences plc.
  • Real-world manufacturing conditions at our new, purpose-built engineering facilities at UCL East Campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. 
  • Perspectives from leading academics and external industry partners across both engineering and entrepreneurial disciplines, with regular consultation hours, module-specific discussion forums and a self-directed individual research project developed in close liaison with your project supervisor.

The foundation of your career

The skills you will learn on this Master's will be immensely valuable either in a startup scenario or in a variety of exciting career opportunities with established organisations.

Employability

Graduating with this Master’s means you will have the technical skills and entrepreneurial expertise to either launch your own innovative product or startup, or step into any number of exciting positions at leading companies in the manufacturing, automotive or aerospace industries. You’ll also get enterprise-ready through a wealth of entrepreneurship guidance and training, including the UCL Innovation and Enterprise entrepreneurship skills programme. This programme offers an entire ecosystem of startup support, with events, lectures, enterprise bootcamps, competitions and more.

Recent graduates have gone onto work for organisations such as Rolls Royce, SpaceX, Mercedes AMG and the Royal Navy. Others have successfully launched their own enterprises, including environmental firm Greenr, custom-fit cycle helmet company Hexr, and biomedical outfit Oxford Heartbeat.

Networking

You’ll have regular opportunities to connect, collaborate and build professional contacts as part of your Master’s. 

  • Get involved with tailored events at both the faculty and departmental level  facilitated by UCL Careers, UCL’s alumni team, and UCL Innovation and Enterprise. 
  • Enjoy regular access to industry experts throughout the programme, including industry supervision over your group project. 
  • Join and organise student-led events, such as industry visits or guest lectures, with a focus on specific industrial sectors relevant to your studies.

Teaching and learning

This MSc programme is delivered through a mix of tutorials, lectures, laboratory work, projects and practicals, which frequently draw upon real-life industry case studies.

Assessment is through examinations, presentations, coursework, the group design project, and your individual research project.

Full-time students on this programme can expect approximately 12-16 hours of contact hours per teaching week. The exact number of contact hours and composition varies throughout the terms depending on the module choices of the student. A full-time weekly schedule will amount to 35-40 hours a week, which comprises contact time, self-directed study, and preparing for assessments.

Your project module will see you conduct research, write up your final report, and engage in regular contact with your project supervisor(s), who will guide and support you throughout your project.

Modules

This programme involves you undertaking two projects: an Innovation Group Design Project and an Individual Research Project. Both projects should have a focus on innovation and manufacturing, and many of these projects will have a strong collaboration with industry. In the first, you will work in small groups to either solve an industrial problem or develop your own idea that could be launched to market. For the second project, you work individually on aspects of a novel idea.

You will take four compulsory modules in the areas of finance, entrepreneurship, characterisation of materials and nanoengineering, as well as two optional modules. designed to develop additional engineering knowledge and modelling skills as well as transferable skills enabling you to work in interdisciplinary ways. 

Students on this programme will work alongside students on the Future Manufacturing and Nanoscale Engineering MSc programme to collaborate in modules across new areas in Nanoengineering and Advanced Material Characterisation.

The Group Design Project is assessed via written reports and presentations. The Individual Research Project comprises a large part of the programme running from March to September. This is carried out under the supervision of an academic member of staff and is assessed via a written report and a project presentation.

Please note that the list of modules given here is indicative. This information is published a long time in advance of enrolment and module content and availability are subject to change. Modules that are in use for the current academic year are linked for further information. Where no link is present, further information is not yet available.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits. Upon successful completion of 180 credits, you will be awarded an MSc in Manufacturing with Innovation and Enterprise.

Accessibility

Details of the accessibility of UCL buildings can be obtained from AccessAble. Further information can also be obtained from the UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services team.

Where you'll study

Five students in mechanical engineering lab housing multiple computers and technical equipment on tables

UCL Mechanical Engineering’s facilities are fundamental to our students’ studies and research. From a Thermofluids Laboratory focusing on fuels and emissions, and our Fluids Laboratory, to MechSpace, a large, dedicated teaching lab that sees students design and build prototypes, honing practical engineering skills. The Department also offers excellent resources in our Advanced Propulsion Lab (APL), the Advanced Characterisation Laboratories for Materials & Manufacturing (ACLMM), and now UCL East’s state-of-the-art Manufacturing Futures Lab (MFL), where we take a multidisciplinary approach to the creation of next generation sustainable manufacturing technologies, supported by a Precision Fabrication Workshop (PFW).

Fees and funding

Fees for this course

UK students International students
Fee description Full-time
Tuition fees (2025/26) £20,500
Tuition fees (2025/26) £39,800

Additional costs

For Full-time and Part-time offer holders a fee deposit will be charged at 10% of the first year fee.

Further information can be found in the Tuition fee deposits section on this page: Tuition fees.

There may occasionally be small, incidental expenses which can be reimbursed by the department once claimed.

Some modules are taught at the Bloomsbury campus, which will incur travel costs.

UCL’s main teaching locations are in zones 1 (Bloomsbury) and zones 2/3 (UCL East). The cost of a monthly 18+ Oyster travel card for zones 1-2 is £114.50. This price was published by TfL in 2024. For more information on additional costs for prospective students and the cost of living in London, please view our estimated cost of essential expenditure at UCL's cost of living guide.

Funding your studies

UCL East Scholarship

The scholarship works to support the ambitions of east Londoners by funding the fees and living costs of eligible Master's programmes including this MSc at UCL. You can read more about the UCL East Scholarship here

For a comprehensive list of the funding opportunities available at UCL, including funding relevant to your nationality, please visit the Scholarships and Funding website.

UCL East London Scholarship

Deadline: 26 June 2025
Value: Tuition fees plus £16,000 stipend ()
Criteria Based on financial need
Eligibility: UK

Next steps

There is an application processing fee for this programme of £90 for online applications. Further information can be found at Application fees.

When we assess your application we would like to learn:

  • why you want to study Manufacturing with Innovation and Enterprise at graduate level
  • why you want to study Manufacturing with Innovation and Enterprise at UCL
  • what particularly attracts you to the chosen programme
  • how your academic and professional background meets the demands of this challenging programme
  • where you would like to go professionally with your degree

Together with essential academic requirements, the personal statement is your opportunity to illustrate whether your reasons for applying to this programme match what the programme will deliver.

Please note that you may submit applications for a maximum of two graduate programmes (or one application for the Law LLM) in any application cycle.

Choose your programme

Please read the Application Guidance before proceeding with your application.

Year of entry: 2025-2026

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