Materials Engineering, MSc by Research

Start dates: 1st October, 1st January, 1st April, 1st July. Swansea is one of the UK’s leading centres for materials teaching and research.The internationally leading materials research conducted at Swansea is funded by prestigious organisations such as Rolls Royce, Airbus, The European Space Agency, and Tata Steel. Key research areas include design against failure by creep, fatigue and environmental damage, structural metals and ceramics for gas turbine applications, grain boundary engineering, recycling of polymers and composites, corrosion mechanisms in new generation magnesium alloys, development of novel strip steel grades (IF, HSLA, Dual Phase, TRIP) and functional coatings for energy generation, storage and release. You can find out more about the research we do within our College here: Materials Research Centre Photovoltaics and Solar Energy Institute of Structural Materials Advanced Characterisation Coatings, Corrosion and Electrochemistry Materials Advanced Characterisation Centre (MACH1) Metallurgy SUSTAIN Steel Swansea Additive Manufacturing Research Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering We are ranked: 220 in the World for Engineering & Technology (QS World University Rankings 2025)

IELTS 6.5 Overall (5.5+ each comp.) or Swansea University recognised equivalent. Full details of our English Language policy, including certificate time validity, can be found here.

International students: £23,800 per year

UK students: £5,006 per year

UK/Home: £5,006 per year

International: £23,800 per year

Apr or Jul 2026

Rolling admissions – apply as early as possible

• Bay Campus, United Kingdom