Engineering Degree Accelerator Programme
Heriot-Watt University
UCAS Code: GC23 | Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Must also have GCSE English & Mathematics at Grade C/4
GCSE/National 4/National 5
5 GCSEs at Grade C/4 including English & Mathematics.
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About this course
Our Bachelor Degree Accelerator Programme (The Accelerator) is an alternative route to begin your degree offering direct entry to second-year study across our undergraduate degrees.
**Learning style**
The Accelerator’s style of teaching will best prepare you for degree level studies with lectures, tutorials and seminars, encouraging independent thinking and developing your academic knowledge and skills.
The intensive and focused programme will enable you to:
• transition seamlessly into degree-level studies;
• make an informed choice about your degree;
• develop independent learning skills through our problem-based and student-centric learning approaches;
• learn to work in groups, conduct research and deliver presentations.
**Course options**
The first year of The Accelerator can normally be completed within one academic year (nine months). The programme comprises four year-long courses of 30 credits each.
**Academic skills**
This course introduces students to the study skills, practices and expectations of university study while preparing you to better participate in a tertiary learning environment. Throughout the course, there will be an emphasis on the utility and transferability of these academic skills and competencies not only for foundation and degree studies, but also for employability and lifelong learning.
**Option courses**
There are four options for the engineering programme, you will need to choose three:
• Physics
• Mathematics
• Chemistry (recommended for Chemical Engineering pathway)
• Computing (recommended for Electrical Engineering pathway)
**Degree pathways**
Successful completion of Year 1 of the Accelerator programme offers a direct pathway into Year 2, of a wide range of professionally relevant degrees:
• Mechanical Engineering and Energy Engineering, BEng (Hons)
• Mechanical Engineering and Energy Engineering, MEng
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BEng (Hons)
• Robotics, Autonomous and Interactive Systems, BEng (Hons)
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering, MEng
• Robotics, Autonomous and Interactive Systems, MEng
• Chemical Engineering, BEng (Hons)
• Chemical Engineering, MEng
• Mechanical Engineering, BEng (Hons)
• Mechanical Engineering, MEng
• Architectural Engineering, BEng (Hons)
• Architectural Engineering, MEng
• Civil Engineering, BEng (Hons)
• Structural Engineering, Beng (Hons)
• Structural Engineering, MEng
• Civil Engineering, MEng
• Quantity Surveying, BSc (Hons)
• Construction Project Management, BSc (Hons)
• Geography, Society and Environment, MA (Hons)
• Urban Planning and Property Development, BSc (Hons)
• Combined Studies, BSc (Hons)
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Top job areas of graduates
Although the subject has seen a bit of resurgence in recent years, the UK is still felt to be short of physics graduates, and in particular physicists training as teachers. If you want a career in physics research — in all sorts of areas, from atmospheric physics to lasers - you'll probably need to take a doctorate, and so have a think about where you would like to do that and how you might fund it (the government funds many physics doctorates, so you might not find it as hard as you think). With that in mind, it's not surprising that just over a fifth of physics graduates go on to take doctorates when they finish their degree, and well over a third of physicists take some kind of postgraduate study in total. Physics is highly regarded and surprisingly versatile, which is why physics graduates who decide not to stay in education are more likely to go into well-paid jobs in the finance industry than they are to go into science. The demand and versatility of physics degrees goes to explain why they're amongst the best-paid science graduates.
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Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.
Physics
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
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Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.
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