Positioned between traditional universities and business and industry, Cranfield combines the academic rigour and long term perspective of a university with the commercial and business focus of industry.

Cranfield operates in a global context. Our competitive advantage is based, primarily, upon three characteristics:

• our focus upon sectors, private, public and charitable, rather than traditional academic disciplines: hence all schools embrace staff from a wide range of academic disciplines
• our concern for and delight in the practical outcome of our work
• our willingness to address defence.

We educate students at postgraduate level on both professional development and degree-awarding course; they come either to enhance an already chosen career, or to move to a new one.

95% of our students enter relevant managerial, professional or technical positions in the workplace, or embark on further study, within six months of graduation.

Our research income, measured as a percentage of our turnover, puts us as one of the top five research intensive universities in the UK alongside Oxford, Cambridge, and London’s Imperial College and UCL.

These impressive statistics, coupled with our excellent links with industry, and our mission to create viable, practical and environmentally desirable solutions means we are uniquely placed for both students and corporate partners alike.