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The Master in Aeronautical Engineering (MAE) provides, at a time, full professional accreditation as Aeronautical Engineer in Spain and an internationally-focused high-level education enabling individuals to develop their professional career in all sectors of the aeronautical and space industries, agencies, and research centers. To achieve these two goals the MAE syllabus combines a core, covering all fields of Aerospace Technology.
The Master consists of 90 ECTS, including a Thesis, distributed in 3 semesters. Optional extensions of up to 30 ECTS will be available for individuals wishing a deeper specialization or enrolling in a PhD program.
The MAE is most adequate for individuals with a BSc-level background in aerospace engineering and, in particular, its syllabus has been built upon the knowledge and experience acquired in the BSc in Aerospace Engineering (BAE) at UC3M. The MAE is imparted totally in English seeking the creation of a multinational environment proper not only of the aerospace industry, but of most innovative fields, professions, and universities.
Small groups, of about 40 students, and a faculty team pertaining to a unique UC3M department assure a close monitoring of students and excellent coordination among courses.
│MASTER IN NUMBERS
- ☛ 45 students per class
- ☛ 90% of the teaching staff is PhD or professional of recognized prestige
- ☛ Minimum 40% continuous evaluation
- ☛ Employability rates in the Aeronautical Engineering degree above 97% and unemployment equal to or less than 3% (INE, 2014)
- ☛ 98% of graduates in Aeronautical Engineering believe that the title has helped them to find work (INE, 2014)
- CURRICULUM
- CURRICULUM
The Master in Aeronautical Engineering is organized in 3 semesters of 30 ECTS credits each. The syllabus consists of 17 compulsory courses of either 3 or 6 credits, and the Master Thesis of 12 credits.
The courses cover four specialization areas:
- 33 ECTS for Aerospace Vehicles
- 23 ECTS for propulsion
- 12 ECTS for Aerospace Navigation and Control
- 10 ECTS for Air Transport and Airports
Courses combine a scientific and technological core of lectures plus a relevant amount of laboratory and practical sessions.
Year 1 - Semester 1
General subjects Subjects ECTS TYPE Language Computational Aerodynamics 6 C 
Advanced Flight Mechanics 6 C Air Navigation Systems 6 C Airports 6 C Aerospace Manufacturing 6 C Year 1 - Semester 2
Year 2 - Semester 1
General subjects Subjects ECTS TYPE Language Advanced Space Propulsion 3 C Advanced Aircraft Design and Certification II 6 C Aerospace Autonomous Systems 3 C Experimental Aerodynamics 3 C Air Transport 3 C Master Thesis Subjects ECTS TYPE Language Master Thesis 12 C vacio C) Compulsory: 78 ECTS
Master's Thesis: 12 ECTScourse Programs
- QUALITY
GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION
☛ First year offered: 2014
PROGRAMME’S QUALITY ASSURANCE
The Academic Committee of the Master’s programme complies with the SGIC-UC3M and it is responsible for the follow-up, analysis, review, assessment and quality of the program, it contributes with proposals to improve the program and produces the “Memoria Académica de Titulación” (Programme Report).
FACULTY AND COURSE PLAN
Graduate Profile and Competences
- CURRICULUM
- FACULTY
The Aerospace Engineering Faculty and Research Group is responsible of the Master in Aeronautical Engineering . This international group combines full-time, research-experienced faculty, industry-experienced part-time teachers, visiting professors from foreign institutions, and teaching assistants carrying out their PhD within the group. In addition, aerospace experts from other Departments of the University and industry will be regularly invited to give lectures.
Beyond teaching, the Group actively researches in Space Flight Dynamics and Plasma Propulsion, Structural Dynamics, Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Aerospace Navigation and Control, and Manufacturing Processes.
UC3M FACULTY
- AHEDO, EDUARDO
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Full Professor
PhD
Brief CV
- ANTORANZ, ANTONIO
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
PhD / Engineer
INDUSTRIA DE TURBOPROPULSORES (ITP)
Brief CV
- CACCIATORE, FRANCCESCO
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
SENER
Brief CV
- CAVALLARO, RAUNO
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Associate Professor
PhD
Brief CV
- CINI, ANDREA
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Visiting Professor
PhD
CV Abreviado
- CLIMENT, HÉCTOR
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
PhD
AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE
Brief CV
- DISCETTI, STEFANO
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Full Professor
PhD
Brief CV
- DI SOTO, EMMANUELLE
Assistant Professor
GMV
- ELVIRA, RUBÉN
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
PhD
AIRBUS
CV Abreviado
- ESPINOSA, JAVIER
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE
Brief CV
- FAJARDO, PABLO
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Full Professor
PhD
Brief CV
- FLORES, OSCAR
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Associate Professor
PhD
Brief CV
- GARCÍA-VILLALBA, MANUEL
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Associate Professor
PhD
Brief CV
- GARIJO, DIEGO
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
PhD
AIRBUS
Brief CV
- GONZÁLEZ, DANIEL
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Visiting Professor
CV Abreviado
- HILARIO, JAVIER
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
Engineer
AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE
Brief CV
- IANIRO, ANDREA
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Full Professor
PhD
Brief CV
- LAFOZ, ISMAEL
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
Engineer
AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE
Brief CV
- MELGAR, IGNACIO
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
SENER
Brief CV
- MERINO, MARIO
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Associate Professor
PhD
Brief CV
- NAVARRO, JAUME
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Visiting Professor
PhD
CV Abreviado
- ORDÓÑEZ, ISMAEL
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
Engineer
FERROVIAL AEROPUERTOS
Brief CV
- PRADO, PAULA
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
PhD
AIRBUS
Brief CV
- RAIOLA, MARCO
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Associate Professor
PhD
CV Abreviado
- SÁNCHEZ, GONZALO
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Associate Professor
PhD
Brief CV
- SANJURJO, MANUEL
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Associate Professor
PhD
Brief CV
- SOLER, MANUEL
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Associate Professor
PhD
Brief CV
EXTERNAL FACULTY
- MARTÍNEZ-SÁNCHEZ, MANUEL
Department of Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering
Honorary Professor
PhD
FULL PROFESSOR MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- AHEDO, EDUARDO
- ADMISSION
- ADMISSION
Application
The request must be submitted electronically through our application system. Before beginning the admission process, please read the following information:
Full-time enrollment in the Master requires about 40 hours of commitment per week during the academic period. This includes lectures and laboratory attendance, personal study, and preparation of assignments and exams.
Furthermore, continuous evaluation, based on assignments and quizzes during the course period, amounts to no less than 40% of the final grade in the ordinary call. Therefore, those people willing to coordinate a professional internship with the Master study are strongly recommended either to enroll part-time or, preferably, postpone the internship to the second Master year.
Requirements
Can access the master anyone who is in possession of a bachelor degree in the branch of aerospace engineering that gives access to the Master's degree that gives professional accreditation to work as Aeronautical Technical Engineer in Spain or a degree that provides equivalent competences.
The admission criteria for this Master's Degree are set out in the Order CIN/355/2009, February 9.
Admission criteria
Admission will be decided by the MAE Academic Committee. Candidate selection will be done on the basis of the following criteria:
ADMISSION CRITERIA % Academic Excellence in BSc (or equivalent) Degree E English level * up to 20% of E Professional experience in Aeronautical Engineering. Professional experience and scholarships will be valued. up to 20% of E Motivation, interest and recommendation letters up to 30% of E * To score in this section, a level higher than B2 is required, that is, levels C1, C2 or proven experience having attended teaching in English-speaking engineering for at least 2 years.
The personal statement by the candidate (compulsory, written in English and with a maximum extension of 2 pages) should explain concisely the motivation of the student for joining the Master, whether part-time or full-time enrollment is planned, the main areas of interest within the Master syllabus, and the professional plans after finishing it.
Reference letters on the candidate academic achievements are optional. They are mainly suggested for candidates coming from foreign Institutions or holding Bachelor degrees that could be less familiar to the Master Academic Committee, and thus more difficult to assess.
Language requirements
A good level of spoken and written English is needed. Students must present an Official B2 English diploma including evaluation of the 4 areas: listening, reading, speaking and writing. As reference B2 corresponds to a First Certificate in English (Cambridge), IELTS 6.0 (or higher), or equivalent.
The language requirements will not be required to those students whose mother tongue is English or students who have completed their undergraduate studies in English, upon presentation of the relevant documentation.
The Language Center regularly organizes language level accreditation exams.
You can check the language requirements of generic language required to study a master at UC3M, depending on is in Spanish, English or bilingual.
students with foreign university degrees
Please note that due to the fact that this Master’s program grants you access to regulated professions, it needs to comply with a special legislation that requires those applicants with foreign degrees to have their degrees previously accredited and recognized by our Ministry of Education of Spain.
For more information, you should check the Ministry’s website: Higher Education Homologation. It is important to know that this process may take around 9 to 12 months, approximately.
For this reason, unless your previous studies have been previously accredited and recognized by our Ministry of Education, we strongly advise you not to apply for this Master’s program.
- ENROLLMENT
TUITION fees*
Reservation fee: €450
- it will be paid once the student receives notification of admission to the master’s, and deducted from the first tuition payment
- the reservation fee will only be refunded if the master program is cancelled
EU STUDENTS (€19.43/ECTS) First academic year - 60 ECTS €1,165.80 Second academic year - 30 ECTS €582.90 NON EU STUDENTS (€154.80/ECTS) First academic year - 60 ECTS €9,288 Second academic year - 30 ECTS €4,644 IMPORTANT
NEW STUDENT
- If you are a new student you will be assigned a REGISTRATION APPOINTMENT which will be the day and time from which you will be able to access the registration website. It is important to access the time of your appointment to be able to choose the group/shift of your preference.
The appointment can be consulted here using the identification number that you indicated in your pre-registration (DNI, NIE or passport, without hyphens). - To register follow the instructions on this link
FORMER STUDENT
- If you are a former student, you must register according to the instructions on this link
NOTE: the indicated public prices do not include in any case, neither the ECTS corresponding to the Formative Complements that the student must take (only master's degrees with previous Formative Complements), nor the the cost of issuing the master’s degree certificate.
Administrative procedures
You can find information about administrative procedures in the Virtual Secretariat of your Aula Global along with the enrolled subjects.
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* Current fees for the 24/25 academic year, pending approval by the Community of Madrid for the 25/26 academic year.
Additional information
- You may enrol on the master’s degree after completing the admission process and receiving formal confirmation of your acceptance.
- When performing the enrolment you can choose between Full-time enrolment or Part-time enrolment.
- The email address provided upon enrolment will be used for formal communications; students are therefore kindly requested to check their mail regularly.
- Pursuant to the regulations of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, a student failing to pay any part of the fees will not be admitted and the enrolment process will be terminated. In cases of cancellation of enrolment due to non-payment, the University may demand the payment of the pending amounts for enrolment in previous academic courses as a prior condition of enrolment.
No diploma or certificate will be issued if a student has any outstanding payments.
- ADMISSION
- INTERNSHIPS
General information on scholarships
For more information on specific scholarships of interest, awarded by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid as well as other agencies or organizations, please refer here:
- PRACTICAL INFORMATION
MASTER’S COURSE SCHEDULE
Check the Master’s schedule (2024/25 academic year)
Check the Master’s schedule (2025/26 academic year)
IMPORTANT
☛ Two enrollment groups have been set up for this master's degree, one in the morning (group 1) and one in the afternoon (group 2), with limited seats for each group.
☛ It is recommended that all subjects be enrolled in the same group.
☛ If you have subjects in different groups in your enrollment, please consult the group change page.
- EXTENSIONS
The 90 ECTS of the Master's cover the Spanish requirements for professional accreditation as an Aeronautical Engineer in just a year and a half and you will be able to access your professional life directly with these studies.
However, if you want to obtain voluntary and customizable complementary training on an individual basis to expand your learning and skills, the UC3M offers you four different types of supplements for the Master that will also be reflected in the European Diploma Supplement (EDS) if you take them.
Each supplement normally lasts one semester and involves a maximum of 30 ects. These complementary activities will begin in December, after completing the MAE courses in the second year.
MASTER IN SPACE ENGINEERING
If you wish to complete your master's degree curriculum, adding a comprehensive and specialized training in design and systems engineering, oriented to the development of space projects, apply for admission to the Master in Space Engineering to start it together with the second year of the Master in Aeronautical Engineering (for example, if you take the first year of the Master in Aeronautical Engineering in 2023/24, you will have to apply for admission to the 2024/25 academic year in the Master in Space Engineering). We offer you the possibility of obtaining a second Master's degree by taking 51 ECTS of this program. The previous passing of the Master's Degree in Aeronautical Engineering will allow you to apply for and obtain the recognition of 39 ECTS*.
*The recognition fee is 25% of the program's tuition fees.
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE SUPPLEMENT
This is an opportunity to obtain training in a particular aerospace area chosen by the student at an international reference university. For this purpose, scholarships are offered in the Erasmus+ program for 6-month stays in a foreign institution after completing the courses of the regular MAE program. It is recommended that the Master's Thesis be part of the exchange agreement.
MANAGEMENT SUPPLEMENT
This supplement attempts to offer a transversal and complementary formation to MAE students in the field of Management. Students may choose among several courses of the UC3M Master in Management.
ENGINEERING & R&D SUPPLEMENT
This supplement is intended to give students the possibility to personalize their training by including complementary training in other complementary fields of engineering or to take advantage of this supplement to acquire complementary training in the field of research (especially for those who want to continue their training with a PhD). The supplement can include UC3M master's degree courses from the School of Engineering and Basic Sciences.
INTERNSHIP SUPPLEMENT
This track is aimed to complete the MAE formation with an experience on the industrial and professional environment. The supplement consists of an internship in a company in the field of Aerospace Engineering, whether in Spain or abroad, for a period of up to 9 months.
In order to maximize the experience, it is desirable that the placement includes the development of the Master Thesis.
UC3M is in the process of negotiating a specific offer for this supplement, but students can make individual proposals to the MAE Academic Committee.
INTERNATIONAL DOUBLE DEGREES UC3M MASTERS
The students of the Master in Aeronautical Engineering have the opportunity to take this International Double Degree and obtain, in addition to the UC3M Master, the “Ingénieur (MSC)” from ISAE-SUPAERO.
There is a maximum of 2 places for the DTI aimed at students of the 1st year of the Master in Aeronautical Engineering at UC3M.
Specific requirements: French level B1.
Important: In the first and second year, students pay their fees at UC3M, while in the last year they are paid at the host university. The rates vary each year, being able to access the updated information through the following link. In this call the fees for European students are € 2,895 approx. and for Non European students € 4,965 approx.
For more information, consult in your Postgraduate Student Offices.
UC3M COURSES. DOUBLE MASTERS
UC3M offers two of its own degrees as part of the AIRBUS-UC3M framework cooperation program. MAE students have preferential access to these master's degrees. The two master's degrees are:
- The Master in Aircraft Systems Integration (MASI) oriented to the design, development and integration of aircraft systems
- The Master in Airframe Technology (MAIR) oriented to the design, calculation and certification of aircraft structures
Remarks
- There is a limited number of places in each supplement and in the UC3M courses
- Selection based primarily on academic record
- Fees for supplement courses are those of each program and not those of MAE
- Applications will be made during the second semester of MAE