Discover latest techniques to develop new, sustainable superyacht and marine craft designs. Benefit from the combined expertise of Solent's yacht engineering team and Centre for Marine Sustainability. The MSc Sustainable Marine Craft and Superyacht Design course focuses on equipping you with the engineering knowledge and the analytical and practical technical design skills a future marine craft designer is expected to have on entering the leisure or commercial craft design and production industry, to design marine craft typically between 24 metres and 120 metres in length.
Alongside practical design projects, you will study naval architecture, structural design and system design. For all modules, your design must comply with relevant maritime statutory regulations and must have current sustainability and lifecycle requirements embedded within.
Working in Solent's marine design CAD suite, you will learn to use many commercially available drafting and modelling, and analytical software programs widely used across the marine design industry. You will use industry-standard hull lines fairing software to develop the hull, and CAD packages to develop 2D CAD drawings and 3D computer generated models of your designs.
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution
September 2026
Main Campus
E Park Terrace,
Southampton,
SO14 OYN, Southern England, United Kingdom
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution
October 2027
Main Campus
E Park Terrace,
Southampton,
SO14 OYN, Southern England, United Kingdom
An honours degree at 2:1 or higher. Please ensure you upload the following mandatory documents with your application:
Two academic references.
Certified transcripts of qualifications, including English language proficiency if non-UK student.
Copy of passport.
Copy of current visa (if applicable).
A personal statement.
Employer sponsor form, where appropriate.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
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