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Be part of the positive technological developments shaping human history.
Governments globally are under pressure to move away from fossil fuels and invest in more sustainable alternatives. This rapidly growing sector needs people like you to help drive this change. Ready to learn how to build the renewable energy technology of the future?
Our BEng Sustainable Energy Engineering is taught by academics who are leading the way in the field. To support their vital work and your learning, we’ve invested in an impressive sustainable energy research space filled with cutting-edge facilities. Here you’ll innovate, experiment and simulate sustainable energy solutions.
Solve issues around sustainability
Industry experts from organisations such as IBM, BAE and AWS regularly visit our campus. We also run IBM’s accredited Design Thinking Workshop, which explores approaches to problem solving. All of this will help you feel confident completing your extended research project.
What can you do after this degree? You might become a Renewable Energy Engineer – a rewarding role where you’ll help to design and build power plants. However, the possibilities don’t end there. Our graduates work as Energy Consultants and Research Scientists, while others even start their own enterprises.
You can complete your Sustainable Energy Engineering degree in three, four or five years.
All modules are compulsory
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
You'll study a range of core engineering principles including:
You can look up module descriptions using our module directory.
You'll cover the following specialist topics:
Students choosing the MEng option spend an additional year studying advanced specialist modules and working on a group project.
Compulsory:
Optional modules include:
The credit load for elective modules are to be balanced across semesters.
Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.
Students who do not have the required high school qualifications for admission to this degree, or who do not meet their UCAS conditional offers, may be considered for our foundation year.
You will enrol onto Engineering BEng with Foundation. Successful completion of the foundation year will offer progression to a range of degrees in the School of Engineering and Material Sciences, including BEng or MEng Sustainable Energy Engineering.
International students who may not have had the chance to study A-level-equivalent qualifications may qualify for our one-year International Science and Engineering Foundation Programme, commonly known as the ISEFP.
On successfully completing the ISEFP, and subject to meeting the progression requirements, you are guaranteed a place on your chosen degree programme at Queen Mary.
Apply for the Sustainable Energy Engineering BEng or MEng with Industrial Experience to spend a year on placement, gaining practical experience and building professional contacts.
The industrial experience year can be taken in Year 3 or 4 of a BEng programme or Year 3, 4 or 5 of an MEng programme.
Please note that industrial placements are highly competitive and awarded based on application, academic track record and performance at interview.
Add on an integrated masters to complete advanced modules and a high-level group project.
Go global and study abroad as part of your degree. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).
Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary, including the progression requirements.
You can do either a year in industry or a year abroad - you cannot combine these options.
"The best thing about my course is that it covers both fundamental engineering as well as including specialised modules for sustainable energy, providing you with vast knowledge for industrial application. Queen Mary has a very good careers service and my department has its own Industrial Placement Manager as well."
You'll learn through a combination of lectures, problem-solving classes, laboratory practicals and problem-based learning.
You should plan for 14 to 17 hours of formal teaching each week, plus time spent on group projects. For every hour spent in class, you’ll complete a further one to two hours of independent study.
Assessment typically includes a combination of coursework, written report, projects, presentations, group work and exams in the summer.
The School offers excellent on-campus resources to aid your studies, including:
Alternative offers may be made to applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification.
For further information please visit: qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry/epq
Our standard contextual offer: Grades BBB including Maths and Physics or Chemistry at A-Level. Excludes General Studies, Critical Thinking.
Our enhanced contextual offer (for care experienced students, refugee/asylum seekers or students who have completed Realising Opportunities or Access to Queen Mary): Grades BBC including BB in Maths and Physics or Chemistry at A-Level. Excludes General Studies, Critical Thinking.
More information on how this information is used for a contextual offer can be found on our contextualised admissions page.
Our standard contextual offer: Grades ABB including AB in Maths and Physics or Chemistry at A-Level. Excludes General Studies, Critical Thinking.
Our enhanced contextual offer (for care experienced students, refugee/asylum seekers or students who have completed Realising Opportunities or Access to Queen Mary): Grades BBB including Maths and Physics or Chemistry at A-Level. Excludes General Studies, Critical Thinking.
We accept a wide range of European and international qualifications in addition to A-levels, the International Baccalaureate and BTEC qualifications. Please visit International Admissions for full details.
Find out more about our English language entry requirements, including the types of test we accept and the scores needed for entry to the programme.
You may also be able to meet the English language requirement for your programme by joining a summer pre-sessional programme before starting your degree.
See our general undergraduate entry requirements.
UK students accepted onto this course are eligible to apply for tuition fee and maintenance loans from Student Finance England or other government bodies.
Queen Mary offers a generous package of scholarships and bursaries, which currently benefits around 50 per cent of our undergraduates.
Scholarships are available for home, EU and international students. Specific funding is also available for students from the local area. International students may be eligible for a fee reduction. We offer means-tested funding, as well as subject-specific funding for many degrees.
Find out what scholarships and bursaries are available to you.
We offer specialist support on all financial and welfare issues through our Advice and Counselling Service, which you can access as soon as you have applied for a place at Queen Mary.
Take a look at our Student Advice Guides which cover ways to finance your degree, including:
The Sustainable Energy Engineering programme equips you with specific skills and knowledge to tackle environmental issues related to energy creation and consumption. You might work for an energy company or for government, advising on sustainability issues.
Recent Sustainable Energy graduates have been hired by:
The Queen Mary careers team offer:
Sustainable Energy Engineering - BEng (Hons)
Engineering with Foundation - BEng (Hons)
Sustainable Energy Engineering with Industrial Experience - BEng (Hons)
Sustainable Energy Engineering with Year Abroad - BEng (Hons)
Sustainable Energy Engineering - MEng (Hons)
Sustainable Energy Engineering with Industrial Experience - MEng (Hons)
Sustainable Energy Engineering with Year Abroad - MEng (Hons)
The Discover Uni dataset (formerly Unistats)
The School of Engineering and Materials Science attracts some of the brightest minds from across the country, and the world. The most recent national assessment of the quality of university research (REF 2021) placed us seventh for our engineering research (Times Higher Education) and second for the quality of our research outputs.
Our academic staff have extensive contacts with major industrial companies in engineering and materials science, and there is constant interaction between industry, research and our teaching.
Our students benefit from personal contact with approachable teaching staff in small-group settings, where discussion and feedback is actively encouraged.