About Safety Engineering Beng (hons) in Ulster University

Safety is vital across all industries. Safety engineers design systems and structures to be safe, preventing or minimising incidents and disasters in the natural and built environment. Safety Engineering will prepare you for exciting and diverse roles, particularly in the oil, gas, and wider energy sectors or in a humanitarian context where human benefit is of primary concern.

Ulster offers the only Safety Engineering undergraduate degrees in the UK and Ireland. You will use our unique research facilities including the Fire Safety Engineering Research and Technology Centre, and will work with an international teaching team who support the degree from a recognised research base.

You will study topics including fundamental sciences. and applications such as structures, fire and explosions, human behaviour, ethics, and humanitarian engineering. As a Safety Engineer you will develop your analytical skills and solve real world problems. A one year work placement is an integral part of the degree.

The Energy Institute have accredited the programme as meeting the academic requirement for incorporated engineer. As a graduate your valuable skillset will enable you to work as safety engineer, with a wider knowledge of disaster management. Safety is critical across all industries globally with safety engineers working in the energy, construction, processing, and humanitarian sectors.

You may transfer to the MEng (Hons) Safety Engineering degree if an average of 60% or more is achieved in second year.

Academic qualification equivalents

• Students who have successfully completed Standard XII examinations will be considered for entry onto our undergraduate degrees across the full disciplinary spectrum.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS :6.0 overall including 5.5 in all elements
• TOEFL IBT: 80 overall including R=18, L=17, S=20, W=17
• PTE: 56 R, L, S, W = 51

Ulster University Highlights

Ulster University Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

If you are an aspirant of the Ulster University, an estimated budget is the first thing that you must be planning after having made up your mind of applying at the institute in the upcoming session. For your ease, a list of expenses for international students in the UK is as compiled below.

Tuition Fee

Since fee for various courses at the institute varies, a tabulated description of fees for some of the courses is as follows:

For Full-Time Courses:

Postgraduate Studies

Cost of Living

Other expenses that you might want to consider apart from basic tuition while planning your financial budget is as mentioned below. Note that the amount is not university specific but general in nature.