Life on campus
My 8 favourite things about Cranfield
Cranfield is located in peaceful and quiet surroundings - not something that suits everyone, but it does mean you are away from the city chaos! This is one of the reasons I considered it an ...
Memories of Cranfield
I first saw Cranfield on my 21st birthday - 8th March 1974. I had been called to an interview for a place with my Professor S. Probert (Doug) in the School of Mechanical Engineering. I ...
Living in Cranfield village – how to arrange your off-campus accommodation
Living off-campus has its pros and cons. Being an international student, having dreamed of pursuing a higher education in a new country and environment that I was unfamiliar with, I had to make this tricky ...
Life as a mature student – a piece of cake?
When I finished my undergraduate degree five years ago, I was brimming with ideas and eager to start my working life. I even remember thinking to myself ‘I won’t be going back to full-time studying ...
From the group project to my thesis – the final few months of my Cranfield MSc…
It's hard to appreciate what makes Cranfield different before you come here but the combination of academia and industry, of postgraduate and PhD students, in a really multicultural environment does actually set it apart from ...
5 steps to completing a postgraduate application
On completing my Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering here in the UK, the obvious question was, what's next? Should I look for a job or continue pursuing my career in academia? If the latter, then which university ...