Marine Technology with Naval Architecture (Honours)

Overview

Course overview

This Marine Technology with Naval Architecture (Honours) degree from Newcastle University provides a pathway to becoming a Chartered Engineer and focuses on all aspects of the design and operation of ships and other large floating structures. You'll gain a broad engineering knowledge enabling you to design safe, efficient and aesthetic ships.

You’ll learn from research-active professors from across the globe, bringing their cutting-edge ideas into the classroom and our specialist facilities.

After learning the fundamentals of marine technology, you'll move on to specialist naval architecture modules such as:

• ship design
• marine structures
• ship hydrodynamics

You'll become a confident expert in naval architecture, able to work on a huge variety of different concepts, which meet the latest global challenges to ensure goods and people are transported safely around the world and with minimum impact on the environment.

You'll benefit from hands-on experience with our experimental facilities, including a model-testing tank, extensive computing facilities and the largest commercial propeller test tunnel in the country.

Your future

Join a network of successful graduates

You'll benefit from our strong industrial links with:

• Lloyd’s Register
• Babcock
• BP
• BAE Systems
• the Royal Navy

Recent graduates have taken up roles such as:

• graduate naval architects
• Royal Navy trainee officer
• graduate technical officer

Employability at Newcastle

96% of Newcastle University graduates progressed to employment or further study within six months of graduating, with 85.5% in graduate-level employment or further study.

Take a look at the most recent data available for our graduates. See what they have gone on to achieve and be inspired to follow in their footsteps.

Statistics are based on what graduates were doing on a specific date, approximately six months after graduation.