Graduate Diploma in Science and Engineering

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Business, Law and Social Sciences

Progresses to Year 1 of a postgraduate degree

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Science and Engineering

Progresses to Year 1 of a postgraduate science degree.

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Programme Overview

The Graduate Diploma in Science and Engineering prepares you for a postgraduate degree course at the University of Liverpool.

The programme provides you with intensive integrated academic studies in science and engineering; advanced level English skills; and high-level study skills.

Entry Requirements

In general, you will need to have completed a minimum of three years of higher education. Extra English language tuition (Pre-sessional English) is also available if required

Progression to the University

Once you complete your Graduate Diploma to the level noted in your offer letter, your admission into a University of Liverpool postgraduate degree in a related subject area is guaranteed.

Subject Modules

Programme Outline

Four core academic skills modules:

Academic skills 2
LCAS* 3a
LCAS* 3b
LCAS* 4

*Language and Communication for Academic Study

Three core subject modules

Engineering Science and Society
Statistical Design for Science and Engineering Research
Research Project (double module)

Additional Modules

Students taking the three term programme take four additional English language and core Academic Skills modules:

Language and Communication for Academic Study 2a
Language and Communication for Academic Study 2b
Academic Skills 1a
Academic Skills 1b

Progression route

Progression Routes

Graduate Diploma Science and Engineering students progress into Year 1 of one of the following postgraduate University of Liverpool degrees:

MSc Addicitive Behaviour
MSc Advanced Computer Science
MSc(Eng) Advanced Engineering Materials
MSc(Eng) Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology
MSc~ Advanced Biological Sciences
MSc*^ Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
MBA Business Finance and Management
MSc Computer Science
Msc E-Business Strategy and Systems
MSc(Eng) Engineering Applications of Lasers
MBA*^ Entrepreneurship
MSc Environment and Climate Change
MSc Evolutionary Psychology
MSc Finance
MBA*^ Football Industries
MBA* Human Resource Management
MSc(Eng) Information and Intelligence Engineering
MSc* Management
MSc(Eng) Maritime Civil Engineering
MSc Mathematical Sciences
MSc(Eng) Micro and Nanotechnology
MSc(Eng) Microelectronic Systems
MSc(Eng) Microelectronic Systems and Telecommunications
MSc Operations and Supply Chain Management
MSc Palaeoanthropology
MSc(Eng) Product Design and Management
MPA*^ Public Administration
MSc Radiometrics: Instrumentation and Modelling
MSc* Research Methods in Psychology
MBA*^ Marketing

~ Available with a Bioinformatics pathway.

* Available to students taking either this Graduate Diploma or the Graduate Diploma in Business, Law and Social Sciences.

^ Progression requires two years' relevant work experience and an employer's reference.