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Cranfield University

World-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships

Cranfield University in Bedfordshire is the UK’s only exclusively postgraduate university and specialises in technology and management, offering world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships.

Its portfolio is renowned for its relevance to business and industry. As the largest UK provider of master’s-level graduates in engineering and offers a flagship MBA, extensive world-class customised executive education and professional development programmes, its work informs government policy and leads the way in producing cutting-edge new technologies and products in partnership with industry.

 

The research and consultancy which the University carries out for industry, government and business provides students with a real-world learning environment, allowing them to develop as professionals and transfer knowledge to the global economy.

The University’s specialised areas of academic expertise and world-class research centres include:

 

  • Advanced Vehicle Engineering Centre – focusing on the development, application and evaluation of advanced vehicle technologies to help make vehicles more capable, lighter, greener and efficient. The Centre has provided research, development, education and training for the automotive and agricultural engineering sectors for more than 50 years and the motorsport sector for over 15 years.

 

  • Aeromechanical Systems Group – offering a range of education, research and consultancy services within its areas of expertise, from the hire of experimental facilities (such as wind tunnels) and staff, to complete project commissions. The Group have a long history of supporting and graduating higher degree students.

 

  • Aerospace Integration Research Centre (AIRC) fosters collaboration between industry and academia and provide capabilities comparable with the leading aerospace facilities across Europe and the World. It is being built at Cranfield University with co-investment partners Airbus and Rolls-Royce, following an award from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). Within the Centre is the:

 

  • Intelligent Automation Laboratory – a unique facility for research into intelligent automation, systems installation and the assembly of airframe and aero-engine structures.

 

  • Centre for Aeronautics – one of the world’s largest centres for postgraduate education and research in aircraft design, aerodynamics, advanced modelling and simulation tools and methods.

 

  • Precision Engineering Institute – the world’s leading science laboratories and industry innovators work with the Precision Engineering Institute that delivers highly skilled precision engineers to bring real-world solutions to next generation products and this emerging area of research and innovation that demands ultra-precision, complex components.

 

  • Weapons and Vehicle Systems Group – combines world-renowned expertise, research and consultancy services on myriad vehicle and weapon technologies from individual elements to highly complex military systems.

 

Cranfield’s School of Management is one of the oldest and most prestigious business schools in Europe, ranked in the top 10 for international one-year MBA programmes in the prestigious Forbes ranking and first in the world for Economics in the Financial Times 2017 Full Time Global MBA ranking.