Civil Engineering

Overview

Do you want to develop your knowledge of civil engineering to postgraduate level, work towards Chartered Engineer status and have the opportunity to specialise in earthquake, environmental, geotechnical or structural engineering?

You'll deliver an integrated design project, where you can focus on an aspect of Civil Engineering such as Earthquake, Structural, Geotechnical or Environmental Engineering. You can further develop your specialist research on your dissertation, using experimental and numerical methods.

You'll graduate with an award that reflects the specialism you focused on in your design project, for example, MSc Civil Engineering with Earthquake Engineering or MSc Civil Engineering with Structural Engineering.

When you graduate, you'll have the expertise to enter a career in areas that reflect your specialist skills.

Career

Civil engineers need a wide range of skills and abilities in order to meet society's changing needs. When you graduate from the MSc  Civil Engineering course at University of Portsmouth you'll have the expert knowledge, technical skills and competencies that employers in industry expect

What can you do with a Civil Engineering degree?

Areas you can work include:

• Civil engineering
• Site engineering
• Construction
• Consultancy
• Project management 

Accreditation

This course is accredited by the Engineering Council, meeting the requirements for Further Learning for CEng for candidates who have already acquired an accredited CEng (partial) BEng (Hons) or an accredited IEng (full) BEng/BSc (Hons) undergraduate first degree.