Aircraft Engineering and Maintenance Systems (Top Up)
Prepare to take your next steps in the global aerospace industry with our top-up degree. Whether you’re boosting your existing career or stepping into an exciting new vocation, build on the skills and experience you have already gained while broadening your knowledge of aircraft maintenance and the related aviation sectors.
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Key Course Details
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UCAS Code
H409
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Start Date
September
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Location
Pontypridd
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£9,790*
International students
£17,200*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
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Start Date
September
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Location
Online
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£804*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
-
Start Date
September
-
Location
Pontypridd
-
Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£804*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
Our course focuses on industry-specific knowledge, technical expertise, and professional skills. You’ll be fully equipped as a skilled and responsible professional who is ready for a diverse range of roles throughout the aerospace sector.
DESIGNED FOR
Our top-up course is designed for those who would like to achieve an engineering degree by building on their existing experience and industry qualifications, such as an appropriate EASA/CAA Part-66 certification, a relevant HND or an equivalent Level 5 qualification.
Career Paths
- Aircraft Maintenance Planning
- Aircraft Manufacturing
- Maintenance Management
- Aircraft Technical Support
Skills taught
- Researching
- Critical Thinking
- Presentation Delivery
- Report Writing
- Teamworking
Course Highlights
Module Overview
Learn using expertise and skills from different areas of engineering to enhance your career. Explore sustainability, leadership and global perspectives as you develop essential skills like accountability, collaboration, and management.
Aerospace Technologies; Sustainability, Materials and Propulsion
Explore sustainable aerospace development and accessible technology while learning about modern technologies, testing and research used to design aircrafts. Discover the materials and manufacturing processes used as the industry moves towards carbon neutrality.
Leading Aerospace Projects
Discover the project management principles within aerospace engineering and maintenance. Learn how to minimise aircraft downtime, promoting safety and efficiency, while exploring how you can help develop accessible and sustainable technology-driven solutions in aviation.
Aircraft Maintenance Solutions in a Digital Era
Develop a critical understanding of how digital technologies are transforming aerospace maintenance with emphasis on predictive analytics, digital twins, and AI-driven diagnostics. Learn about potential implications including human factors, cybersecurity, and environmental impacts.
Aerospace Engineering; An Industry Challenge
Use your expertise to solve real-world challenges facing aerospace engineers. Enhance your transferrable skills while conducting in-depth research and managing a major project, from planning and critical literature analysis to justifying your decisions.
Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
Explore aircraft maintenance and the aviation industry through a mix of seminars, workshops, and project-based learning. Our course is informed by current research and industry practice, ensuring relevance to the global aerospace sector.
Employability is at the centre of our course which uses a blend of theoretical and hands-on learning. You’ll use cutting-edge facilities, virtual learning environments and simulation tools to develop transferable skills as well as invaluable technical expertise.
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How you’ll be assessed
You’ll be assessed through coursework and presentations, giving you the opportunity to demonstrate that you hold the professional skills and knowledge required by the global aerospace industry.
From written work and oral presentations to technical evaluations and project-based tasks, you’ll apply what you’ve learned on the course to real-world challenges facing the sector. You’ll showcase your deeper analysis and critical thinking skills as you complete assignments that have been informed by the industry.
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Facilities
USW has invested £3.3m in its aerospace facilities, including a two-storey Aerospace Centre extension, offering engineering students 1,000m2 of workshop and lab space, two aircraft hangars, and a MP521 flight simulator.
The Centre houses a Jetstream 31 aircraft, gas turbine maintenance, riveting, hand tool, and welding workshops. Additionally, it features clean and dirty composite workshops, labs for electronic tasks, avionics, hydraulics, and pneumatics. Sub-sonic wind tunnels facilitate aerodynamic instruction.
The Merlin MP521 simulator, programmable for any aircraft type, is pivotal in design testing and flight test preparation.
You’ll also study in our new, state-of-the-art £60 million Calon building, a centre of excellence for STEM learning, research and innovation.
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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Typical qualification requirements:
Entry to the BSc (Hons) Aircraft Engineering and Maintenance Systems Top-Up requires applicants to have completed a Higher National Diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering or an equivalent level 5 qualification in a relevant subject. Applications from EASA/CAA Part-66 qualified Aircraft Maintenance Engineers, with appropriate licence categories and relevant industrial experience, will be considered on an individual basis, as will other applications of an equivalent nature.
International applications welcomed:
We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages.
English language requirements
International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 4 overall and a minimum of 4 in each component or equivalent.
Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.
If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.
If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.
We're here to help
Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.
Fees and Funding
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per 20 credits*£804
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per 20 credits*Additional Costs
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
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Introducing Calon
We are investing in the future of STEM with the exciting new Calon building at the heart of our Pontypridd Campus.
University Quality Assurance
At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.
If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.
How to apply
All applications for full-time undergraduate courses or foundation degrees should be made via UCAS. Take the next step: Apply through UCAS. You can apply to us directly for all part-time undergraduate courses, if you’re seeking advanced entry or you’re an international student. To apply directly, please choose the application form below for your preferred start date and mode of study (full-time or part-time.)
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Advanced entry
If you already have a relevant qualification or experience related to the course you're applying for, you may be eligible to start at a later stage of the course. For example, students from partner colleges can ‘top up’ their qualifications to a degree by joining us in Year Two or Year Three of a course. This process is known as ‘advanced entry’, you can apply directly to the University for 'advanced entry' using the application forms provided above.
International admissions
International applicants can apply to us directly. If the University has an in-country team in your region, your application will be assigned to them for assistance.
