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. 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 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.

Total Enrollment:7096
            International Students:3829
Undergraduate Enrollment:
            International Students:
Graduate Enrollment:7096
            International Students:3829

Postgraduate Programs:
Advanced Chemical Engineering MSc
Advanced Lightweight and Composite Structures MSc
Advanced Materials MSc
Advanced Mechanical Engineering MSc
Advanced Motorsport Engineering MSc
Advanced Motorsport Mechatronics MSc
Advanced Water Management MSc
Aerospace Computational Engineering MSc
Aerospace Dynamics MSc
Aerospace Manufacturing MSc
Aerospace Materials MSc
Aerospace Propulsion option – MSc in Thermal Power
Aerospace Vehicle Design MSc
Air Transport Management MSc
Aircraft Design option – MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design
Aircraft Engineering MSc
Airport Planning and Management MSc
Airworthiness MSc
Applied Artificial Intelligence MSc
Applied Bioinformatics MSc
Astronautics and Space Engineering MSc
Automotive Engineering MSc
Automotive Mechatronics MSc
Autonomous Vehicle Dynamics and Control MSc
Avionic System Design option – MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design
Business and Strategy Leadership MSc
Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering MSc
Computational Engineering and Design option – MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering
Computational Fluid Dynamics MSc
Computational Intelligence for Data Analytics option - MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering
Computer and Machine Vision option - MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering
Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Engineering (Automotive) MSc
Counterterrorism MSc
Counterterrorism, Risk Management and Resilience MSc
Cyber Defence and Information Assurance MSc
Cyber-Secure Manufacturing MSc
Cyberspace Operations MSc
Defence Acquisition Management MSc
Defence and Security (Engineering)
Defence and Security (Leadership and Management)
Defence and Security (Technology)
Defence Leadership MSc
Defence Simulation and Modelling MSc
Energy Informatics MSc
Energy Systems and Thermal Processes MSc
Engineering and Management of Manufacturing Systems MSc
Environmental Engineering MSc
Environmental Management for Business MSc
Explosives Ordnance Engineering MSc
Finance and Management MSc
Food Systems and Management MSc
Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology MSc
Forensic Ballistics MSc
Forensic Explosive and Explosion Investigation MSc
Forensic Investigation MSc
Forensic Investigation of Heritage Crime MSc
Future Food Sustainability MSc
Gas Turbine Technology option - MSc in Thermal Power
Geographical Information Management MSc
Global Product Development and Management MSc
Guided Weapon Systems MSc
Gun Systems Design MSc
Information Capability Management MSc
Investment Management MSc
Land Reclamation and Restoration MSc
Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc
Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management MSc
Management and Corporate Sustainability MSc
Management and Entrepreneurship MSc
Management and Human Resource Management MSc
Management and Information Systems MSc
Management and Leadership MSc
Management MSc
Manufacturing Technology and Management MSc
Marketing and Leadership MSc
Metal Additive Manufacturing MSc
Military Aerospace and Airworthiness MSc
Military Electronic Systems Engineering MSc
Military Operational Research MSc
Military Vehicle Technology MSc
Offshore Engineering MSc
Operations Excellence MSc
Power, Propulsion and the Environment option - MSc in Thermal Power
Process Systems Engineering MSc
Procurement and Supply Chain Management MSc
Programme and Project Management (Defence) MSc
Renewable Energy MSc
Robotics MSc
Rotating Machinery, Engineering and Management option - MSc in Thermal Power
Safety and Accident Investigation MSc
Safety and Human Factors in Aviation MSc
Software Engineering for Technical Computing option - MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering
Strategic Marketing MSc
Structural Design option - MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design
Systems Engineering for Defence Capability MSc
Systems Engineering MSc
Systems Thinking Practice MSc
Technology Innovation and Management for a Circular Economy MSc
Thermal Power MSc
Through-life System Sustainment MSc
Water and Sanitation for Development MSc
Water and Wastewater Engineering MSc
Welding Engineering MSc

Doctoral Programs:
'Big Data' analytics for industrial application PhD
A framework for novel hybrid prognostics system PhD
Additive Manufactured Antennas and Arrays for 5G Automotive Communication Technologies PhD
Advanced fault diagnosis for aircraft fuel system PhD
Advanced Hybrid Electric Aircraft Propulsion Architectures with Alternative Fuels
Advanced modelling of mechanical component lifecycle for remaining useful life prediction PhD
Advanced Process Engineering with Machine Learning PhD or MSc by Research
Aero Engine Intake Aerodynamics for Novel Aircraft Applications
Applying Artificial Intelligence in chemical engineering PhD
Can we develop tools for securing Lawtonian landscape resilience?
Clean Energy PhD
Corrosion-sensitive Multiscale Fatigue Modelling PhD
Cost-effective 3D lidar imaging for healthcare, robotics and smart devices PhD
Deep learning based super resolution PhD
Design of vehicle health management processor for real-time failure analysis of avionic systems PhD
Designing new porous foam catalysts PhD/ MSc by Research
Development and Tribological Testing of Omniphobic Surfaces PhD
Development of 3D metal printing capability for challenging environments PhD
Development of a sustainable filtration technology for wastewater treatment PhD
Development of an 'Internet of Things' based thermography inspection system PhD
Digital image correlation for determining material’s constitutive properties PhD
Dynamics of Structures with Frictional Interfaces
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
Human-Robot Interaction in Manufacturing Systems PhD
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
Modal responses of mechanical structures under thermo-mechanical loads PhD
Modelling Gas Turbine Blade Degradation in a High Fidelity Digital Twin 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
Polarimetric Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery for Complex Scatterers PhD
Prognostics and condition monitoring of lithium ion battery system PhD
Sustainable Textiles, Fibres and Sustainable Materials for Fashion Design Applications PhD
Tribological investigations on rotatory machinery at extremely high speeds PhD
Vehicle Integrity Test and Measurement PhD