Swansea or Manchester for Engineering?

One thing you should remember is that at the the first couple of years of engineering degrees tend to be very similar in terms of the content. So it doesn't matter if you are doing civil or areo, they will be similar until closer to the end. This is why you get 'general' engineering degrees...you tend to specialise in year 3 on ward I believe.

I don't quite see the point in super specific engineering degrees for undergraduate students. I think you would be better off sticking to the main branches then specialise at MSc level. So if you wanted to get into medical engineering, probably Electrical/Electronic or mechanical would be you best option. This also opens more doors prospect wise post-degree than a medical engineering degree would.

Also, I assume that you are doing a foundation YEAR not degree (completely different things btw), in which case, there is nothing stopping you from transferring after the FY.

Thanks for the reply. This is true, I've heard it quite a bit. I do think that working on modules relevant to my interests in engineering would be beneficial, that's not to say I'd lack motivation due to not being interested in more general modules such as structures/dynamics etc; I want to do well in all modules. And yes I've got offers for foundations years I have heard that foundation years are catered to their universities degrees, not sure how that would affect transferring if I decided to at the end of the foundation

One thing you should remember is that at the the first couple of years of engineering degrees tend to be very similar in terms of the content. So it doesn't matter if you are doing civil or areo, they will be similar until closer to the end.

This is false information. The first year of similar disciplines will be fairly similar but projects and the like tend to be different, from year 2 onwards civil will be very very very different to aerospace.

From what I've seen, comparing aero and civil, first years will take the exact same modules with exceptions in a couple. So it doesn't seem to matter if the disciplines are similar or not. Year two will be different yes, but the core content, even if it is applied to x engineering as opposed to y engineering will be similar in the sense that what you learn can be transferred across the different fields of engineering. Obviously the more course specific modules will not be similar by any stretch. I wasn't clear on that so my bad, but you did take it slightly out of context, I was making the point that in general engineering courses all students study the exact same modules in years 1 and 2, then specialise into EEE, mech., civil etc in the years 3 and 4, though despite having the exact same first 2 years, the degrees are usually is fully accredited by the ICE/ISE, IET and IME. I will admit aero vs civil was a poor example though.

The reason general engineering degrees are still accredited by specific institutions is because it isn't actually so general as you think it is. What i mean by this is you can't just do a total random mix of modules you will be given options that are tailored to lead towards specific disciplines so in the first year you may study multi-disciplinary modules (like i did at my uni) but later on you do in fact start to follow a particular stream based on your options that will lead onto a specific discipline. So its not really 'general' all the way through but rather you start following a particular stream early on based on your interests leading to X engineering discipline.

That's great and all about the silmarilites between subjects, any advice on swansea vs manchester?