Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (Mechanical, or Electrical and Electronic)

About the course

UM offers the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) as named four-year, 240 ECTS degrees in the Faculty of Engineering, taught in English. Mechanical Engineering has a common first year, then three streams from Year 2: Applied Materials in Engineering, Applied Mechanics and Thermofluids Engineering, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Electrical and Electronic Engineering lets you specialise through electives in Years 3 and 4.

Entry requirements for Irish students

• General entry with the Irish Leaving Certificate: 6 Higher Level passes (2 at H2, 2 at H3 and 2 at H6), including Higher Level passes in a language, a science and a humanistic subject. If English is your mother tongue, the language must be one other than English.
• Course requirement: Advanced level passes at grade C or better in Pure Mathematics and in Physics. UM treats H2 as grade C at Advanced level, so you need H2 or better in both Higher Level Maths and Higher Level Physics.
• English: an Ordinary Level pass at grade O4 or better in Leaving Cert English meets UM’s English requirement. Otherwise you need an approved English test (SELT).

How to apply

1. Check requirementsGet 6 Higher Level passes (2 at H2, 2 at H3, 2 at H6). Your two H2s must be in Higher Level Maths and Higher Level Physics.
2. Choose your degreeDecide between Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and read the course page for each.
3. Apply onlineApply at um.edu.mt/courses as an applicant with overseas qualifications. Applications open in November; the 2026 late deadline was 15 September at 14:00.
4. Accept and registerUpload your Leaving Cert results, accept your offer and register before the October start.

Costs

• EU/EEA students taking a first full-time bachelor’s degree at the University of Malta are generally not charged tuition, but the course pages did not show the EU fee when we checked. Confirm it on the course page (EU view). Non-EU students pay EUR 10,800 a year (2026/27).

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