Space Missions: The Executive Guide to Space

Key highlights

• Strategic overview of the space industry and wider space landscape
• Explores technical and engineering challenges of building for space
• Covers every stage of a space mission from concept to data
• Taught by staff involved in over 100 space missions
• Draws on work with ESA, NASA, JAXA and James Webb Space Telescope
• Delivered at the Space Park Leicester facility

Entry requirements

Scholarships

• Alumni Discount

  You are entitled to a discount of 20% of the new course fee.

  Up to 20% of fees

• Chancellor's International Postgraduate Taught Scholarship

  This scholarship, worth £3,000 per year, reflects the University’s commitment to attracting talented students from around the world.

  Up to £3,000

• Chancellor’s International Scholarship

  This scholarship, worth £3,000 per year, reflects the University’s commitment to attracting talented students from around the world.

  Up to £3,000

• Chevening Scholarship

• Chevening-Leicester Partner Scholarship

• Choral Scholarships at Leicester Cathedral

  Leicester Cathedral offers three Choral Scholarships of £1,000 each year to University of Leicester students (undergraduates or postgraduates).

  Up to £1,000

• Distance Learning (DL) Sanctuary Awards

• Distance Learning Merit Scholarship

  The awards available are: MA: £800, PGDip: £500, PGCert: £300

• Family Loyalty Discount

  10% discount on the tuition fee for each year of your course.

  Up to 10% of fees

• International Citizens of Change Scholarship

  A £10,000 tuition fee discount will be awarded to 10 undergraduate international fee-paying students starting an undergraduate programme in September 2026 for each year of their course for up to three years.

  Up to £10,000

• International Postgraduate Taught Merit Scholarship

  International Merit Scholarship worth a tuition fee discount of £5,000.

• International Undergraduate Merit Scholarship

  This merit-based scholarship, worth £5,000 per year, is offered to international-fee-paying students applying for an undergraduate degree at the University of Leicester who achieve or exceed the academic grades outlined.

• International Undergraduate Tuition Fee Waiver

• Leicester Postgraduate Partnership Scholarship

  Enjoy a 20% fee discount on a selection of postgraduate taught courses at either University of Leicester or De Montfort University.

  Up to 20% of fees

• Music Scholarship

  Music Scholarships of £500 are available for the academic year to cover the cost of music lessons for student musicians who are studying an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in any subject.

  Up to £500

• Sanctuary Scholarships

  Each Sanctuary Scholarship consists of a tuition fee waiver, and a support package to be confirmed following assessment with our Welfare Service.

• Sports Scholarships - The Talented Athlete Award

  Financial contribution on agreed items up to £500 (e.g., travel expenses, equipment, specialist coaching, nutritional advice).

Careers this course leads to

• Space business development manager
• Space programme manager
• Technology strategy manager
• Space industry consultant
• Space project manager

Cost of study

Admission

Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to University of Leicester, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.