
Introduction
As the UK’s only exclusively postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships is creating leaders in technology and management globally.
Our mission
We are creating leaders in technology and management, unlocking the potential of people and organisations by partnering with business and governments to deliver transformational research, postgraduate education and professional development.
Creating leaders in technology and management
Cranfield’s distinctive expertise is in our deep understanding of technology and management and how these work together to benefit the world.
Our education portfolio is renowned for its relevance to business and industry. We are the largest UK provider of master’s-level graduates in engineering and offer a flagship MBA, extensive world-class customised executive education and professional development programmes. Our work informs government policy and leads the way in producing cutting edge new technologies and products in partnership with industry.
The research and consultancy we carry out for industry, government and business provides our students with a real-world learning environment, allowing them to develop as professionals and then transfer their knowledge to the global economy. This has always been the ‘Cranfield way’ but it has never been more important than in today’s world.
Our corporate plan
Our corporate plan is designed to raise the ambition and enhance the distinctiveness of our University through our people (staff, students and alumni), the industry partners we work with and our unrivalled facilities. To strengthen our distinctive position in higher education and to grow our University, we have raised our ambition through our 415i goals:
4 – 400 fully research-active staff
1 – Deliver a UK top 10 learning experience
5 – Achieve a 5% operating surplus
i – Impact, influence, international
Our values
Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do.
Each of our four values are supported by a high-level statement and framework to guide the way we behave and shape our decisions.
Graduate Programmes (Taught)
Aerospace
- Advanced Lightweight and Composite Structures MSc
- PhD in Aero Engine Intake Aerodynamics for Novel Aircraft Applications
- Aerospace Computational Engineering MSc
- Aerospace Dynamics MSc
- Aerospace Propulsion option – MSc in Thermal Power
- Aerospace Vehicle Design MSc
- Aircraft Design option – MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design
- Aircraft Engineering MSc
- Aircraft Fatigue and Damage Tolerance (Short Course)
- Applied Artificial Intelligence MSc
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Autonomous
- Astronautics and Space Engineering MSc
- Autonomous Vehicle Dynamics and Control MSc
- Avionic Systems Design option – MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design
- Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering MSc
- Computational Engineering Design option – MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering
- Computational Fluid Dynamics MSc
- Computer and Machine Vision option – MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering
- PhD in Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering (4 fully funded studentships)
- Gas Turbine Technology option – MSc in Thermal Power
- Military Aerospace and Airworthiness MSc
- Power, Propulsion and the Environment option – MSc in Thermal Power
- Pre-Master’s in Engineering
- Rotating Machinery, Engineering and Management option – MSc in Thermal Power
- Software Engineering for Technical Computing option – MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering
- Structural Design option – MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design
- Sustainable Textiles, Fibres and Sustainable Materials for Fashion Design Applications PhD
- Thermal Power MSc
Defence and Security
- Additive Manufactured Antennas and Arrays for 5G Automotive Communication Technologies PhD
- Communications Electronic Warfare Postgraduate Certificate
- Counterterrorism MSc
- Counterterrorism Risk Management and Resilience MSc
- Cyber Defence and Information Assurance MSc
- Cyberspace Operations MSc
- Defence Acquisition Management MSc
- Defence and Security (Engineering) MSc
- Defence and Security (Leadership and Management) MSc
- Defence and Security (Technology) MSc
- Defence and Security Export Postgraduate Certificate
- Defence Leadership MSc
- Defence Simulation and Modelling MSc
- Design and Development of Experiments to Measure the Burn Rate, Temperature and Pressure of Propellants PhD
- Design of a new senor using Smith-Persil mm-wave solid state device in Compound Semiconductor materials systems PhD
- Dynamics of Structures with Frictional Interfaces PhD
- Explosives Ordnance Engineering MSc
- Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology MSc
- Forensic Ballistics MSc
- Forensic Explosive and Explosion Investigation MSc
- Forensic Investigation MSc
- Forensic Investigation of Heritage Crime MSc
- Guided Weapon Systems MSc
- Gun Systems Design MSc
- Improving Inertial Only Tracking PhD
- Information Capability Management MSc
- MBA Defence
- Mid-IR LED array technology for advance material characterisation applications PhD
- Military Aerospace and Airworthiness MSc
- Military Electronic Systems Engineering Foundations Postgraduate Certificate
- Military Electronic Systems Engineering MSc
- Military Operational Research MSc
- Military Vehicle Technology MSc
- Mm-wave Assisted Targeted Drug Delivery Technologies PhD
- Polarimetric Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery for Complex Scatterers PhD
- Programme and Project Management (Defence) MSc
- Sensors Electronic Warfare Postgraduate Certificate
- Smart sniffer device for detection of illicit substances PhD
- Systems Engineering for Defence Capability MSc
- Systems Engineering MSc
- Systems Thinking Practice MSc
- Vacuum Electron Devices for Terahertz Electronics Applications PhD
Energy and Power
- Advanced Chemical Engineering MSc
- Advanced Mechanical Engineering MSc
- Advanced Process Engineering with Machine Learning PhD or MSc by Research
- Applying Artificial Intelligence in chemical engineering PhD
- Centre for Bioenergy & Resource Management – MSc by Research
- Clean Energy PhD
- Designing new porous foam catalysts PhD/ MSc by Research
- Energy Informatics MSc
- Energy Systems and Thermal Processes MSc
- Modelling Gas Turbine Blade Degradation in a High Fidelity Digital Twin PhD
- Offshore Engineering MSc
- Process Systems Engineering MSc
- Redesign and modification of a laboratory scale fast pyrolysis reactor PhD
- Renewable Energy MSc
Manufacturing
- ‘Big Data’ analytics for industrial application PhD
- A framework for novel hybrid prognostics system PhD
- Advanced fault diagnosis for aircraft fuel system PhD
- Advanced Materials MSc
- Advanced modelling of mechanical component lifecycle for remaining useful life prediction PhD
- Aerospace Manufacturing MSc
- Aerospace Materials MSc
- Corrosion-sensitive Multiscale Fatigue Modelling PhD
- Cyber-Secure Manufacturing MSc
- Deep Learning based super resolution PhD
- Design of vehicle health management processor for real-time failure analysis of avionic systems PhD
- Development and Tribological Testing of Omniphobic Surfaces PhD
- Development of 3D metal printing capability for challenging environments PhD
- Development of an ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) based thermography inspection system PhD
- Digital image correlation for determining material’s constitutive properties PhD
- Engineering and Management of Manufacturing Systems MSc
- Extreme learning to handle ‘Big Data’ PhD
- Failure models for transmission gears health monitoring PhD
- Fault diagnostics of electrical motor using magnetic flux sensor PhD
- Framework for manufacturing prognostics PhD
- Global Product Development and Management MSc
- Graphene/Nanoparticles Reinforced Multi-scale Carbon/Glass Composites for Advanced Aerospace and Automobile Engineering MSc by Research
- High Performance Natural Polymer Textiles Manufacturing for Engineering & Biomedical Applications MSc by Research
- Intelligent fault diagnosis and prognosis solution for rotating machinery PhD
- Investigate sub surface damage and its impact on structural dynamic behaviour PhD
- Knowledge management system for the IVHM centre PhD
- Low Cost Recycled Carbon Glass Fibre based Sandwich Composites for Electric Cars vehicles and Aerospace Sector MSc by Research
- Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management MSc
- Management and Information Systems MSc
- Manufacturing Technology and Management MSc
- Metal Additive Manufacturing MSc
- Modal responses of mechanical structures under thermo-mechanical loads PhD
- Multiscale Predictive Approaches Applied to Mechanics of Materials PhD
- No fault found resistant control system PhD
- Numerical health assessment of surface wear in mechanical contacts PhD
- Operations Excellence MSc
- Postgraduate Engineer Apprenticeship
- Prognostics and condition monitoring of lithium ion battery system PhD
- Through-life Engineering Services Specialist Master’s Degree Apprenticeship
- Through-life System Sustainment MSc
- Tribological investigations on rotatory machinery at extremely high speeds PhD
- Vehicle Integrity Test and Measurement PhD
- Welding Engineering MSc
Transport Systems
- Advanced Motorsport Engineering MSc
- Advanced Motorsport Mechatronics MSc
- Air Transport Management MSc
- Air Transport Management MSc (Executive)
- Airport Planning and Management MSc
- Airworthiness MSc
- Automotive Engineering MSc
- Automotive Mechatronics MSc
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Engineering (Automotive) MSc
- Military Aerospace and Airworthiness MSc
- Safety and Accident Investigation – Marine Transport PgCert
- Safety and Accident Investigation MSc
- Safety and Human Factors in Aviation MSc
Contact Details
Cranfield Campus
College Road
Cranfield
MK43 0AL
UK
Cranfield University of Shrivenham
Shrivenham
Swindon
SN6 8LA
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1234 750111