**Course Overview**
- Fire Safety Engineering prepares you for a diverse career as a fire safety engineer. Fire professionals are involved in the design of fire systems, building control and fire consultancy.
- You’ll be taught by leading academics and ex-fire professionals and come away with a broad-based, vocationally relevant qualification.
- You’ll study fire prevention, development and containment. You’ll get to understand the dynamics of fire, and how to design suppression systems that minimise the human, environmental and financial impact of fire.
- Alongside specific fire safety knowledge, you’ll develop important analytical and critical skills, alongside transferable IT and design abilities, which will stand you in good stead for the future regardless of the career path you choose.
- Benefit from our dedicated fire and safety engineering laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art equipment.
**Why study with us**
- Foundation Degree in Science in Fire Safety Engineering is ranked 3rd in the UK with 92% of students in graduate-level work or further study after graduating (Complete University Guide 2021)
- This exciting programme provides both workplace and practical experience – it’s supported by the Centre for Research in Fire and Hazard Science.
- Benefit from the latest high-quality equipment and facilities available in our new £35m Engineering Innovation Centre.
Course Details - Modules
Year 1: Compulsory modules; Introduction To Combustion and Fire, Safety and Fire Law (half module), Energy Transfer and Thermodynamics, Buildings, Materials and Fire, Introduction to Engineering Analysis, Community Fire Safety, Skills for Fire Studies (half module)
Year 2: Compulsory modules; Fluid Dynamics of Fire, Fire and the Built Environment, Fire Safety Management and Legislation, Structures, Materials and Fire, Community Fire Safety Strategies, Fire Science Project
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Energy Institute, The
Building Services Engineers, Chartered Institution of
Fire Engineers, Institution of
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
H121
Institution code:
C30
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Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Year 2
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
64 UCAS points at A2
P (D or E)
64 UCAS points
64 UCAS points
64 UCAS points
64 UCAS points at Higher Level subjects
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Minimum Qualification Requirements
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English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
6.0
with no component score less than 5.5 (To have been taken within two years of the course commencement date)
English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.
Unistats information
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Fees and funding
England
9250.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Scotland
9250.0
Year 1
Wales
9250.0
Year 1
Channel Islands
9250.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
*subject only to annual increase in line with UK Retail Price Index inflation rate
Provider information
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Preston
PR1 2HE
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