Electrical and electronic engineering

Electronic engineers are producing the next generation of computers, satellites, mobile phones, wearables, distributed sensors, and energy generation and storage devices. And with our 6G Innovation Centre, Advanced Technology Institute, Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing and Surrey Space Centre, we’re at the forefront of this work.

Our electrical and electronic engineering courses open the door to careers in a range of rapidly evolving and exciting industries.

Surrey is the winner of the Cyber University of the Year at the National Cyber Awards 2023.

Top 100

We're ranked top 100 for electrical and electronic engineering and telecommunication engineering in the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2023

Developing your employability

90 per cent of our undergraduate graduates go on to employment or further study*

*Graduate Outcomes 2024, HESA.

What our students say

Research excellence

The Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) ranked engineering 15th in the UK for *research power.

*Research power is the overall quality of submissions, calculated by grade point average and multiplied by the full-time equivalent number of staff submitted.

Studentships

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Future Open SecuRe NeTworks (FORT) - Jointly with Queen’s University Belfast

Funding information:

Fully funded 4 year CDT Programme covers UK Tuition fees + minimum UKRI Stipend (currently £19,237 p.a.)+ Enhanced stipend payment of up to £2,500 + CDT training by the centre and each researcher will have an additional Research Training Support Grant worth approx. £3,700.
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