UCAS launches materials science and engineering page
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), UK, has released a page on its website entirely dedicated to materials science and engineering (MSE) degrees.
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), UK, has released a page on its website entirely dedicated to materials science and engineering (MSE) degrees.
A recent article by Discover Materials in Materials World, explained the importance of promoting the study of these degrees. It reads, ‘Every day, MSE brings value to society, through the development of new materials. While this is important, the value of MSE is truly found when it is realised in an engineering context, and this is done by people.’
‘Unfortunately, MSE is not well known and is poorly signposted. Typically, students are unaware of its existence until they start to consider a university degree. It is then often too late for students to change their A-level subjects to fit the entry requirements of Higher Education (HE) institutions. Such barriers seem even greater when exploring participation in terms of ethnicity, gender and background.’
The article outlines the issue of lack of applications for MSE degrees by presenting an analysis of UCAS data.
‘Briefly, we isolated applications to MSE programmes by focusing on programmes assigned to the Materials Science JACS code (F2) and the Materials Technology JACS code (J5)…[and] we compared it with the historical number of applications to Chemistry (F1), Physics (F3), Mechanical Engineering (H3), Aerospace Engineering (H4) and Chemical Engineering (H8). We found that MSE has a striking gap in application numbers. In 2020, the total number was 1,815, with the next smallest pool being Chemical Engineering, at over 14,000 applications.’
You can check out the newly established MSE UCAS page here: Materials science and engineering (ucas.com)
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