That's a pretty powerful laptop the uni's asking you to buy...
Basically go into amazon and search for an i7 laptop. 8GB of memory should be standard as will 256GB+ storage, I'd say go with the smallest one possible as the extra portability is soooo worth it in a uni environment, be careful about the model of i7, if it's i7-XXXXU or that first X is anything below a 4 then avoid it. I'd say go for i7 as the engineering programs you'll be asked to use will actually use the extra threads so it will speed up performance quite significantly.
If you want to game on it too you can get by with a GTX960m although a 970m would be much better, or wait about a month for the next gen mobile graphics to come out.