Aerospace Engineering 2015 Applicants

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But I like how the first 2 years are common to all Mech Eng courses, it seems to give a better foundation and maybe helps with employability? And they seemed to have a really proactive careers office. The Toyota internship scheme looks cool!
To be honest though I'd be thrilled if I got an offer from any of them! :smile:

Where are you hoping to go?

I'm not sure it helps with employability, their graduate prospects seem to be a bit lower than other similar uni's. Most other uni's I've seen treat Aerospace as a more general degree rather than specifically Mechanical, so at other uni's you have a lot more choice later on and given the higher pay for avionics engineers it probably pays off. So yeah it's always worth looking at full graduate prospect statistics (so start salary, % employment, % employed in engineering), as the results are all over the place for example surprisingly few Southampton, Bristol and Cambridge grads go into engineering (55, 50 and 64%) and Bath has a serious unemployment problem at >20%.

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Helen Mutter

Original post by Helloworld_95

Sorry I didn't really form the thought properly. I meant more that if you end looking for a career outside of aerospace when you graduate, having 2 years of straight mechanical would maybe be a slight advantage over specialising in Aero from the beginning. I don't think it makes a big difference though really. It's mostly for flexibility, which I like the idea of.

I've been looking at graduate stats, but don't really put much importance on them. Obviously you wouldn't choose somewhere with a very high unemployment rate or something, but apart from that I don't find them that helpful. It's better to study a course that you're really interested in at somewhere you will be happy living, than to just pick somewhere based on those stats.

Reply 42

Helloworld_95

Original post by Helen Mutter

Hmm I suppose, although from a pessimistic side nearly every course will have the IMechE accreditation automatically so it may not make too much difference, plus 3rd and 4th year can easily make up for deficiencies in 1st and 2nd, not to mention some uni's offer accreditation in other fields like Materials which would arguably be just as useful.

I'd agree that it's best to study a course you're interested in but from experience and the opinions of other aerospace students, you really won't know what you will be interested in before you start. Like for my course I'd say the majority wanted to go down the mechanical route at the start and hated the avionics side, now that we've actually done a bit of avionics related content it's the complete opposite as people are starting to warm up to it.

Reply 43

Helen Mutter

Yeah, no one ever knows what they want to do in the end, I've definitely changed a lot :P

As I said before anyway, I'd be happy to get an offer at any of my choices! I'm doing a non-typical qualification so I've pretty much applied for everywhere that accepts it! Had to apply for the foundation at Southampton because they don't take it =/

Nothing I can do now really other than study hard and keep waiting :P

Reply 44

ubisoft

Anyone applied to Sheffield? I don't think I'm getting an Imperial offer, so I think that's going to be my firm...

Reply 45

peterglass

Yeah, I've got my offer from Sheffield MEng with the year in north america. Really want to get Bristol too but haven't heard anything back yet, also distance could be an issue since it's ages away from where I live. Would happily go to Sheffield though.

Reply 46

Chris654

Anyone heard from bristol yet? when are all the applications usually considered by ?

Reply 47

bigboateng

Original post by Chris654

Anyone heard from bristol yet? when are all the applications usually considered by ?

Yeah I got an offer quite a while ago. I applied a week after the Oxbridge deadline so in October

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Reply 48

denizcan619

undergraduates applying to aerospace

Please reply with your AS grades and PREDICTED grades

Also, if you've received an offer please reply with the date you applied and your date of receving offer

Offer requirements also would be appreciated

Ive applied >2 months ago and still no feedback

Cheers

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Reply 49

bigboateng

Original post by denizcan619

In as AS I got:
maths -A
Further maths - A
Chemistry - C
Physics - C

I dropped Chemistry and I'm predicted A*AA with A* in maths. I applied a week after the Oxford deadline so around October and got 4/5 offers. Got them around November and December.
Southampton & Manchester - AAB
Bristol & Leeds - A*AA

Still waiting for Bath.

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Reply 50

denizcan619

Original post by bigboateng

Niceee

How long did it take for southampton to reply do you know?

And on their website it says a*aa ?¿
Was this for meng aerospace

Cheers mate

Dennis

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Reply 51

ubisoft

Original post by bigboateng

How do you plan on getting A in physics when you got C at AS?

Reply 52

ubisoft

Got 4 offers within 2 weeks, just waiting on Imperial now, they take ages apparently...

Reply 53

denizcan619

What were your offer requirements ¿

And which unis offered you and in how many days

Cheers

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Reply 54

ubisoft

Original post by denizcan619

What were your offer requirements ¿

And which unis offered you and in how many days

Cheers

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aaa-a*aa. got offers from Manchester, Loughborough (but have interview) and Sheffield. Also Warwick but that is for MMath. Just waiting on imperial. Got all these within 2 weeks.

Reply 55

denizcan619

Original post by ubisoft

aaa-a*aa. got offers from Manchester, Loughborough (but have interview) and Sheffield. Also Warwick but that is for MMath. Just waiting on imperial. Got all these within 2 weeks.

What were your AS grades?
cheers

Reply 56

bigboateng

Original post by denizcan619

Niceee

How long did it take for southampton to reply do you know?

And on their website it says a*aa ?¿
Was this for meng aerospace

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They replied in like 2 weeks. & yeah it says A*AA on the website but apparently if they want to you, they will give you low offer. When I went to the applicant day, most people people had A*AA offer so I guess I was lucky. & This was for MEng.