Civil Engineering, MSc
Swansea UniversityBay Campus, United Kingdom
Course overview
In the coming decades, civil engineers will face growing pressures from climate change, ageing infrastructure and rapid urbanisation. To respond effectively, future civil engineers will need strong technical expertise alongside skills in sustainability, digital technologies and data analysis, as well as leadership and communication skills, to manage complex projects and collaborate with diverse stakeholders, in an increasingly regulated and low-carbon world. Our accredited MSc in Civil Engineering deepens your engineering understanding across the sectors of water, transportation, geotechnics, structures and sustainability.
The programme strengthens the technical foundations that you’ll have built during your undergraduate studies, and helps you evolve into a highly proficient engineer, who can analyse complex problems, shape resilient infrastructure and guide projects that matter most to communities. This programme also helps you understand the principles of managing engineering teams and projects, reflecting the environments in which civil engineers typically operate. Along the way, you will build competence in research methods by completing a dissertation.
This may focus on a subject of particular interest to you, or it can be related to an industrial placement, which can be taken via our Year in Industry option.
Key highlights
- Accredited programme building on undergraduate civil engineering foundations
- Covers water, transportation, geotechnics, structures and sustainability
- Develops skills in managing engineering teams and projects
- Research dissertation on a topic of your choice
- Optional Year in Industry with placement-linked dissertation
Entry requirements
- Degree: 2:2 — 2.2.
- Degree: 2nd class — to include Civil Engineering; or above
Scholarships
Chevening Scholarships
International Postgraduate Alumni Bursaries
First Class - £5,000 per year; Second Class, First division - £3,000 per year; Second Class, Second division - £1,000 per year; Taught Masters to Research Degree - £3,000 per year subject to satisfactory progress.
Swansea University International Postgraduate Research Excellence Scholarship (SUIPRES)
The SUIPRES Scholarship covers the difference between the International and the Home tuition fee rate for the duration of the PhD/Professional Doctorate programme.
Careers this course leads to
- Civil engineer
- Structural engineer
- Geotechnical engineer
- Transportation engineer
- Water engineer
- Engineering project manager
Cost of study
UK/Home: £12,100 per year | International: £23,350 per year
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 Swansea University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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