Cranfield finds progress on gender targets but still too few female chairs, chief executives and chief financial officers

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Cranfield is unique in its wholly postgraduate focus. Its strengths lie in aeronautics, defence, engineering, manufacturing and natural resources. With only 3,000 students (and only around a fifth of them are women) Cranfield is a close-knit and compact university, with a mature and professionally focused attitude. Its campuses are in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, rural Silsoe, less than 20km away (a free shuttle bus connects the two) and Shrivenham for the Defence College of Management and Technology. There are excellent employment prospects for Cranfield graduates

A French cheese, constructed from cow's milk by cheesemaker Philippe Olivier, has been judged the smelliest in the world by 19 members of a human olfactory panel and one hi-tech electronic nose deployed by Cranfield University.

To undertake an Msc in motorsport engineering and management at Cranfield university full-time course-candidates are expected to obtain or possess a minimum of a second class honours degree in a relevant engineering or science-based discipline;