Which University for MSc Petroleum Engineering or MSc Advanced Mechanical Engieering

Well what do you want to do as a future career?

Petroleum engineering will be better for many roles within the petroleum industry, but advanced mechanical engineering is much broader.

None of the universities you've listed are particularly good for pure mechanical engineering - if that's what you're interested in, then look elsewhere.

You can eliminate Aberdeen University because the course is new and it doesn't have particularly good links with the industry despite being in the same city. I can definitely say from my experience that RGU has a much better reputation so if you want to come up to Aberdeen then go there.

Heriot Watt is also very good. Others too look at for mechanical engineering are Strathclyde and Edinburgh. In fact they're probably the best two for pure mechanical.

Thanks to everyone for your replies





I had a look on Strathclyde and Edinburgh MSc courses and none of them offers Advanced Mechanical Engineering.

An MSc doesn't have to be in advanced mechanical engineering, though. MSc degrees are usually more specific to the industry you want to enter and mechanical engineering is very broad.

Can you not just stay at your current university and do the full MEng? An MEng has almost exactly the same prospects as an MSc in petroleum engineering and exactly the same as an MSc in mechanical engineering.

thank you for the reply,

I don't want to do the MEng as BEng+MSc is better for me. When i say MSc Advanced Mechanical Engineering on my first post, I mean MSc Advanced Mechanical Engineering such as this one:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pgprospectus/facultiesanddepartments/mechanicalengineering/postgraduatecourses/ame

However I don't want to apply for the Imperial uni MSc coz of its high standard.

I am looking for a uni with good reputation on this MSc, just a bit behind Imperial.

cheers

Why is BEng + MSc better for you?

MSc course will give me more credits and MSc will make me Charter engineer.

MSc course will give me more credits and MSc will make me Charter engineer.

Do you plan on working outside of the UK?

Career opportunities are a lot more dependent on how good you are as an engineer than what university you went to. They are two very different MSc degrees and it doesn't sound like you know what you want to go into.