MEng Civil and Structural Engineering with Industrial Experience

• Join 200 years of innovation at the first English University to offer an Engineering Degree
• Study at a Top Five University for Civil Engineering (QS World Rankings, 2024), with core subjects structural, fluid and soil mechanics, and specialisms which address today's key issues, like climate change
• Take oncivil and structural design projects in each year of study, supplemented with wider work in geotechnics, hydraulics, project management, construction materials, surveying, and more
• Gain a year of industry experience whilst monitored and supported by the department, before returning to your final year for supervised, realistic group design projects, accompanied by advanced structural design and analysis units
• Fully accredited by the Joint Board of Moderators
• Learn in our incredible purpose-built Engineering and Materials Building and benefit from industry-level facilities, including wave flumes, geotechnics centrifuge, materials testing, 3D laser scanners for surveying!

Where better to lay the foundations for the future, than the first English University to offer an Engineering Degree?

By specialising in Civil and Structural Engineering at The University of Manchester, with the invaluable addition of a year spent in industry, you ready yourself for both a varied and rewarding career. Not only are our graduates the most sought-after by the Top 100 UK Employers (THE Graduate Market, 2022 and 2023), but as you emerge with a Master's of Engineering (MEng), you will feel ready to take on everything our everchanging world has to offer.

You will find the first two years of your study are broad, spanning everything from structural analysis, hydraulics, geotechnics, and mathematics, to construction materials, engineering design, and project management.

As you develop, the level of flexibility you possess to steer your interests with optional subjects will grow – popular choices including renewable energy systems, fire engineering, earthquake engineering and computational hydraulics.

It’s after your second or third year that you will embark on a year working in the civil engineering profession – a structured industrial placement assessed and monitored by the department, with support in finding your placement provided. By year three, you will undertake an individual research project on an emerging topic in the field. By year four, will undertake an industry-supervised group design project, and crucial units on advanced structural analysis and design.

Engineering at Manchester is loved not only for our standard of teaching and research, but for the people. As a student in our department, you will also benefit from our welcoming community, where you can meet likeminded friends in subject-based societies, like Civil Engineering Soc, Women in Science and Engineering, and The Sustainable Engineering Initiative.

This degree will equip you to enter the civil engineering professions and fully satisfies the educational base for becoming a Chartered Engineer (CEng).

36 points overall with 6,6,6 at Higher Level, including Mathematics and Physics and one other subject.

We accept Mathematics: analysis and approaches or Mathematics: applications and interpretation.

All applicants to the University (from the UK and Overseas) are required to show evidence of English Language proficiency. The minimum English Language requirement for this course is either:

• GCSE/iGCSE English Language grade 4/C
• IELTS 6.5 overall with no sub-test below 6.5
• TOEFL iBT 90 with no sub-test below 22
• Pearson PTE 70 overall with no sub-test below 70
• An acceptable equivalent qualification

Please note if you hold English as a Second Language iGCSE qualification, we may also require you to offer one of our acceptable equivalents or achieve a higher grade in your iGCSE than the one stated above.

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