
Cranfield University
Postgraduate Overview
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 specialist areas of focus, or Cranfield themes, are where we bring a range of academic disciplines together in order to tackle the grand challenges facing the world within a range of industrial and commercial sectors. These are Water, Agrifood, Energy and Power, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Transport Systems, Defence and Security and Management.
Our Cranfield themes are built upon our expertise in a range of academic disciplines. To find out more, click on each theme listed below:
Cranfield School of Management
Our research is world leading in its contribution to global innovation. With our emphasis on specialist sectors and collaboration with industry and government we help change the way society thinks, works and learns. To find out more about our research opportunities click here.
Programs available
Postgraduate - Faculties/Departments and Programs
- Communications Electronic Warfare
- Counterterror - Risk and Resilience
- Counterterrorism
- Cyber Defence and Information Assurance
- Cyberspace Operations
- Defence and Security Programme
- Defence Leadership
- Defence Simulation and Modelling
- Explosives Ordnance Engineering
- Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology
- Forensic Ballistics
- Forensic Engineering and Science
- Forensic Explosives and Explosion Investigation
- Forensic Investigation
- Forensic Investigation of Heritage Crime
- Guided Weapon Systems
- Information Capability Management
- Military Aerospace and Airworthiness
- Military Electronic Systems Engineering
- Military Operational Research
- Military Vehicle Technology
- Sensors Electronic Warfare
- Systems Engineering for Defence Capability
- Vehicle and Weapon Engineering
- Advanced Lightweight and Composite Structures
- Advanced Materials
- Advanced Motorsport Engineering
- Advanced Motorsport Mechatronics
- Aerospace Computational Engineering
- Aerospace Dynamics
- Aerospace Manufacturing
- Aerospace Materials
- Aerospace Vehicle Design (AVD)
- Air Transport Management
- Air Transport Management MSc (Executive)
- Aircraft Design option - MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design
- Aircraft Engineering (part-time)
- Airport Planning and Management
- Airworthiness (Part-time)
- Applied Artificial Intelligence
- Astronautics and Space Engineering
- Automotive Engineering
- Automotive Mechatronics
- Autonomous Vehicle Dynamics and Control
- Avionic Systems Design option - MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design
- Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering
- Computational Engineering Design option - MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Computer and Machine Vision option - MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Engineering (Automotive)
- Cyber-secure Manufacturing
- Digital Signal and Image Processing
- Engineering and Management of Manufacturing Systems
- Gas Turbine Technology Option - Thermal Power MSc
- Global Product Development and Management
- Knowledge Management for Innovation
- Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management
- Management and Information Systems
- Manufacturing Technology and Management
- Medical Technology Regulatory Affairs
- Metal Additive Manufacturing
- Operations Excellence
- Power, Propulsion and the Environment Option - Thermal Power MSc
- Pre-Master's in Engineering
- Quality Management in Scientific Research and Development
- Robotics
- Rotating Machinery Engineering and Management Option - Thermal Power MSc
- Safety and Accident Investigation MSc
- Safety and Human Factors in Aviation
- Software Engineering for Technical Computing option - MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering
- Structural Design option - MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design
- Thermal Power
- Thermal Power :- Aerospace Propulsion Option
- Through-life System Sustainment
- Ultra Precision Technologies
- Welding Engineering
- Finance and Management
- Investment Management
- Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- Logistics and Supply Chain Management Executive
- Management (MiM)
- Management and Corporate Sustainability
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Management and Human Resource Management
- Management and Leadership
- Marketing and Leadership MSc
- Master of Business Administration - Executive MBA
- Master of Business Administration (Full-time) MBA
- Master of Business Administration (MBA Defence)
- Procurement and Supply Chain Management
- Strategic Marketing
- Advanced Chemical Engineering
- Advanced Mechanical Engineering
- Advanced Process Engineering
- Advanced Water Management MSc (formerly known as Environmental Water Management)
- Applied Bioinformatics
- Design Thinking
- Energy Systems and Thermal Processes
- Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Management for Business
- Food Systems and Management
- Future Food Sustainability
- Geographical Information Management
- Land Reclamation and Restoration
- Offshore Engineering
- Renewable Energy
- Water and Wastewater Engineering
- Water for Sanitation for Development