BEng (Hons) CIVIL ENGINEERING

This course will prepare you for a range of technical and professional work within the civil engineering sector. We’ve structured it after careful and regular consultation with industry experts.

At the core of your degree, throughout which you’ll combine academic and practical learning, is the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of key infrastructure such as buildings, roads, bridges and canals.

We’ll also give you a firm grounding in structural engineering – the analysis and design of structures that support or resist loads.

Other areas you’ll study include geotechnical engineering, the behaviour and stability of materials such as soil and rock, and the study of water engineering. This involves understanding how clean water reaches your house, how dirty water leaves your house, and how surface water in general moves in channels or rivers - essential knowledge when designing flood protection works.

“Civil engineering offers such a breadth of knowledge and skills,” says Course Leader Dr Arya Assadi Langroudi. “Regardless of whether you specialise in structures, water engineering, geotechnics, highways, project management or construction, you’ll need to be imaginative, inquisitive, confident, versatile and articulate.”

“Here at UEL, we take pride in supporting and guiding our students to develop these skills alongside learning these technical subjects.”

With a degree in civil engineering from the University of East London, you’ll be well placed to land a great job. The high quality of our teaching on the course is widely recognised, and the constant input from industry professionals ensures your studies will be highly relevant to employers once you graduate.

You might decide to specialise as a hydraulic engineer, a structural engineer or a geotechnical engineer. Your decision may be prompted by how your career develops in your first job. You start on the process known as Initial Professional Development (IPD), which usually takes between three and five years.

Recent graduates have gone on to work for Balfour Beatty, Transport for London, the Canary Wharf Group, Careys and Atkins. Others have chosen to work in other professional areas, such as finance, education, marketing and housing.

With a BEng degree and a period of IPD, you’ll be able to apply to become an Incorporated Engineer. If you want to pursue Chartered Engineer status, then you would need to continue your studies to master’s level as well as completing your IPD.

If you decide to continue studying, you’ll have the option of taking a one-year postgraduate MSc course. If your studies are going well after two years of the BEng degree, you can pursue the same goal by switching to a four-year MEng degree course with us. The advantage of this is that you would receive funding for the full four years instead of having to make a separate funding application for a master's course.

FROM
A LEVEL
including passes at A2 in at least 2 subjects, must include Maths minimum grade C
FROM
BTEC
Extended Diploma or Diploma in a related subject grade MMM. Must include Merit in both Mathematics and Further Mathematics.
FROM
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
Diploma with 27 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level and must include Maths and Physics at Higher Level
We would normally expect you to have Grade 4 / C in GCSE Mathematics, English and either Physics or Double Science.