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  • Qualification

    BEng or BE - Bachelor of Engineering

  • Location

    Warsash Maritime School (St Mary's campus)

  • Study mode

    Distance / Online

  • Start date

    SEP

  • Duration

    3 years

Course summary

Course overview

This innovative course combines the benefits of a maritime cadetship programme, supported by a sponsoring company and offering extensive hands-on training at sea on real working vessels, with the recognised career-enhancing potential of a full academic honours degree.

Fully sponsored by one of a huge range of shipping and maritime companies, and developed to meet the specific needs of the shipping industry and the Merchant Navy Training Board, your degree cadetship combines rigorous academic study at our dedicated cadet training centre in Southampton – one of the UK’s busiest ports – with extensive practical training at sea. Shipping out as an engineering officer cadet on a range of vessels owned or operated by your sponsoring company, you will develop the?essential skills, knowledge and behaviours needed to become a Marine Engineering?Officer in the Merchant Navy.

You will acquire a strong understanding of relevant modern ship-board engineering and electrical systems, their operating principles and safe practices. And you will develop a range of practical engineering skills appropriate to operating and?problem-solving for?ships’?propulsion and auxiliary machinery systems, as well as other relevant?systems, in a safe and efficient manner.?

As part of your degree cadetship, you will gain your first qualification as an Engineering Officer of the Watch – and be equipped with all the knowledge and understanding to you need to undertake tasks as detailed in the industry-based?onboard training – and with academic exemptions for?further professional qualifications?under the internationally recognised Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) and UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) regulations.

And with a full academic honours degree, you will also be well placed for a range of senior, shoreside and management roles later in your career – making this the perfect course for a long and lasting career in maritime engineering.?

This course is part of the

  • South Coast Institute of Technology
  • (IoT), a partnership of colleges, universities and industry-leading employers to create new career opportunities in the technology sector. IoT courses like this one are precisely tailored to the needs of employers in the maritime, engineering and digital industries – industries which are hungry for talented new engineers, technologists, technicians and creatives like you.

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    QUALIFICATION TYPE

    A level :

    As a general guide, we look for qualifications that are equivalent to the British high school A-levels. However, MCA certificates of competency may be awarded to people of any nationality and the training programmes are open to all. Applicants who do not have English as their first language will be required to demonstrate an approved level of proficiency in the use of the English language. The agreed minimum requirements for this course are: IELTS minimum 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each individual component, T

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    University information

    Southampton, Solent University

    • University League Table

      102nd

    • Campus address

      Southampton Solent University, East Park Terrace, Southampton, Southampton, SO14 0YN, England

    Subject rankings

    • Subject ranking

      71st out of 75 8

    • Entry standards

      / Max 228
      107 47%

      67th

    • Graduate prospects

      / Max 100
      69.0 69%

      58th

      43
    • Student satisfaction

      / Max 4
      3.01 75%

      36th

      27

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