Name: Motorsports Engineering (with Foundation Year), BEng (Hons)
Price: £9,535 per year GBP

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4 years

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September 2025

UCAS Code

B767

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Get set for a career working on some of the most technically-advanced vehicles in the world, at the highest level in motor sports and engineering, with our Motorsports Engineering Foundation Year Degree.

Foundation year degree courses are designed for students who have the ability to study for a degree, but don’t have the necessary formal qualifications to directly enter their chosen Honours degree programme.

This course is absolutely focused on delivering top flight racing and engineering professionals. You’ll develop skills in design and development processes through a combination of year-long modules, masterclasses, and short courses. And you’ll build a race car.

Engineering science, including engineering analysis, mechanics, and fluid dynamics, underpin much of the design and manufacturing activities on the course. You’ll be learning in our new £35 million Engineering Innovation Centre (EIC).

Why study with us

Motorsports Engineering was ranked 1st in the North West with 83% of students satisfied with the quality of teaching (Guardian University Guide 2021)
Through projects, you’ll gain real engineering experiences, and skills like presenting, time and project management.
You’ll travel to internationally renowned events, including Formula Student and the Shell Eco-Marathon, building-up great contacts.

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What you'll do

You’ll work on personal and team projects to understand the design-development-manufacture cycle and the strategies associated with developing vehicles and products.
There’s a dedicated workshop catering for Formula Student, Formula Ford race cars, eco-marathon cars, and a race car simulator.
People from industry, current and former students will get to see your work when you present it at our Engineering Expo event.

Modules

This module is designed to help you develop and reinforce basic mathematical skills needed for study in science, engineering, and computing subjects. Emphasis will be placed on building confidence and competence in a range of mathematical skills that are used in real-world problems.

Module code: MAC101

You will apply CAD and simulation techniques to engineering design problems. You will use state-of-the-art software used by tier-one industries, and underpin learning with analytical and numerical method.

Module code: SC2000

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

Motorsports Workshop

CNC Manufacturing Workshop

Advanced Composites Workshop

Composites Wet Layup Workshop

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There's a real focus during the course on industrially relevant subjects that can be applied as soon as you land a job.

Kevin Brigden

MEng Motorsport Engineering

Future careers

There is huge demand for engineering graduates, and a BEng in Motorsports Engineering gives you lots of options. If you complete a placement you’ll be even more employable.

As well as going into motorsport, you could work in in aerospace, the automotive industry, the Ministry of Defence and in research development.

Graduates from this course are currently working at companies like Mercedes AMG Motorsport, Williams F1, Force India F1, Tom Tunstall Racing, M-Sport, Ginetta, and Century Motorsport.

If you’re looking beyond the motor sports industry, our graduates can be found at Jaguar Land Rover, Bentley Motors, Airbus, BAE Systems, Babcock, Tata Technologies, Helical Technologies, MI Technology, and United Utilities.

Entry requirements

We will consider your educational achievements, predicted grades, work experience and personal statement. If you don't meet the grades for your chosen course, we will consider you for other programmes.

We know that many factors can influence the grades you achieve in school or college. If your life experience has affected your academic studies, we can take this into account. Use the UCAS Points Calculator below to check whether you are eligible.

Unsure if you meet our entry requirements? Contact our friendly Course Enquiries team to talk through your options.

UCAS: 64 points at A2
BTEC Extended Diploma: MPP
BTEC Diploma: MM
Pass Access Course: 64 points
International Baccalaureate Diploma: Pass including 64 points from Higher Level subjects.
T Level: P (D or E)
IELTS: grade 6.0 with no component lower than 5.5
GCSEs: 5 at Grade C /4 including Maths and English or equivalent

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Fees and funding

2025/26

First year£9,535 for the first year

Full-time£9,535 per year

International

First year£17,250 for the first year

Full-time£17,325 per year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of bursaries, scholarships and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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Care Leaver Bursary
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Estranged student support
Estranged Student Support Bursary is for students who need extra support because they are estranged from their parents.
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Dependants Bursary
Students with financially dependent children may be eligible for our Dependants Bursary as part of our financial support package. 
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Foundation Year Bursary
Our Foundation Year Bursary scheme is for students starting a four or five year undergraduate degree programme.
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Course delivery is via a mixture of lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical sessions and independent study, that latter is an important part of your degree.

The student workshop provides a centre for those seeking careers in the design and development of products. There is a race facility where cars are prepared for race activities.

The composites workshop is used for a variety of activities from research on resin infusion to the development of F3 hovercraft.

Formula Student develops a strong understanding of the design and development of the vehicles and the nature of team members. Masterclasses and formal meetings are used together with the facilities in the workshops.

CAD facilities include SolidWorks, FLUENT (CFD), COSMOS, Nastran and Ricardo WAVE and many other software packages. The dynamometer is used for engine mapping and development.

The racing, the motor sports club and our 'open door' policy mean that staff are very approachable. They’re happy to advise on assessment, which includes traditional examinations, formal reports, interviews, presentations and commentaries on portfolios.

You’ll be encouraged to join our Motorsports Club, where you will race Formula Ford race cars and work on an Eco-marathon car.

You’ll also be learning from staff who’ve had successful careers in motorsport, aerospace, automotive and rail industries.

This course offers an optional 48-week sandwich placement in industry, between your second and third year. If you’re interested, we’ll help you find and prepare for a placement. Placements are a great way to consolidate your first two years of learning, gain experience, and radically enhance your employability.

Motorsport Club

Motorsport Club provides opportunities to participate in extra-curricular activities that will complement the learning you do as part of the course, and enables the development of additional skills and experience to enhance your employability. Initially the activities may be quite structured, such as the strip and build of a go-kart and the sessions relating to race car preparation and setting up the suspension geometry.

As your competence and confidence grows you may become a part of our successful Formula Ford team, helping to prepare and run the car at race events for our customer drivers. Typically this culminates in the Autumn with the Walter Heyes Trophy event at Silverstone, the world’s largest Formula Ford event. Or maybe you will support our Formula Student project and help prepare the vehicle for test events, or by getting involved in the build of the latest car.

We also have two racing simulators in the Motorsports Lab that you can use to put your knowledge of race car suspension set-up, and driving skills, to the test. These have data logging features to allow comparison of your driving to other students so you can analyse where and how improvements to lap times might be achieved.

Formula Student Vehicle Design Project

During the course you’ll develop and increasingly integrate the subject matter around the processes required for successful innovative and sensible technical design and manufacture.

In your final year this culminates in the Formula Student team project, a significant part of the course.

The Formula Student competition is renowned as a testing ground for the next generation of world-class engineers, and you’ll design and manufacture, with other students, almost the entire car in-house.

In a recent example a carbon-fibre tub was developed using our CNC router, the engine was tuned on our engine dynamometers, the structural integrity of the sub-frame was assessed in our materials testing laboratory, and our waterjet cutter was working overtime to machine numerous components such as the rear wishbones.

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