Working with our undergraduates
What differentiates Loughborough engineering degrees? In James Dyson’s 2010 report, ‘Ingenious Britain’, he singled out Loughborough’s ‘customer-focused approach’ to engineering degrees when recommending that ‘more universities need to develop courses directly with industry’.
Loughborough University topped the Times Higher Education Best Student Experience poll for five years running
The Royal Academy of Engineering agreed, picking out our sponsored degrees and our industry-based design projects as exemplars of effective practice in its ‘Engineering Graduates for Industry’ report. Like many universities, we work closely with engineers and recruiters from industry but, at Loughborough, it is the integration of these contributions from industry within our programmes that makes the crucial difference.
We recruit high quality students and provide the UK’s best student experience. Direct engagement with our industrial partners means graduates leave Loughborough with the technical and transferable skills necessary to tackle real issues facing the industry. That’s great for our graduates and great for you.
The latest employability statistics bear out the value of our partnerships. Over 90% of our engineers are in a graduate job within six months of completing their studies. Our sponsored degree programmes, industry based design projects and the Loughborough Teaching Contract Scheme are examples of some of the ways in which industry can work directly with our undergraduates.