Monday, May 28, 2012

Engineering tops as most favoured discipline

Newcastle University, UK, has introduced 19 new postgraduate courses and six Master's of research programmes in architecture, biomedicine, biosciences , business and management, finance and accounting civil and mechanical engineering and computer sciences. These courses are targeted for Indian students who have expressed interest in the subjects.

"Newcastle University is continuing to grow its portfolio of courses to appeal to an increasingly important international market. For example, the rapid development in the field of management, biosciences, biotechnology , engineering and architecture in India has resulted in a huge market demand for skilled professionals in these disciplines. The courses focus on achieving research excellence," said Preety Bansal, country manager, Newcastle University.

The new courses introduced this year include architectural design research, future landscape imaginaries, sustainable buildings and environments, diabetes, mitochondrial biology and medicine, oncology for the pharmaceutical industry, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, computational systems biology, synthetic biology, management and business studies (research), finance and economics (research), biomedical engineering, design and manufacturing engineering, low carbon transport engineering, environmental and petroleum geochemistry, environmental consultancy and intelligent transport systems.