Information about the undergraduate course in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford: The Degree

Enrolled on Engineering Science at Oxford, you’ll spend your first two years studying the core topics which we believe are essential for all engineers to understand.

Having developed a solid grounding in these, you’ll choose to specialise into one of the eight branches of Engineering Science:

• Biomedical
• Chemical and Process
• Civil and Offshore
• Control
• Electrical and Opto-electronic
• Information
• Solid Materials and Mechanics
• Thermofluids and Turbomachinery

A typical week

In the first two years of your degree, you’ll have around ten lectures per week, as well as two college tutorials or classes, and up to five hours of practical work. You'll also be expected to do significant amounts of self-directed study. Lecturers produce a sheet of about ten tutorial examples to accompany each set of four lectures and to provide a basis for College tutorials. A tutorial is usually concerned with one particular example sheet, which might require of the order of ten hours of your time in preparation. 

As you enter your fourth year, a self-directed research project will take up roughly half your time.