Civil Engineering courses

About Civil Engineering (meng) in Cardiff University

Civil engineers play a key role in planning, designing, constructing and maintaining the physical environment around us, including buildings and structures, flood defences and water supply programmes.

Our civil engineering programme offers you a highly regarded degree course at one of the top universities in this field, preparing you for exciting future career opportunities in designing and working with the built and natural environments.

You will develop a thorough understanding of civil engineering theory, which will be backed up by practical application through laboratory and research work, field courses and design classes, enabling you to develop your career in any area of the civil engineering industry.

The MEng allows you to use the last two years to expand and strengthen your knowledge in civil engineering. You will benefit from advanced learning in design and management and an appreciation of the techniques needed to manage and organise a multidisciplinary engineering design project.

Other civil engineering courses include:

• A thorough grounding in the fundamentals of civil engineering if you choose a BEng course
• The opportunity to follow a sandwich year in industry if you choose the relevant four-year BEng or five-year MEng degree option
• The opportunity to study abroad at a partner institution for one semester if you choose the relevant MEng (International) degree option
• The opportunity to study a language if you choose the relevant MEng degree option with a sandwich year at a university in France, Germany or Spain

Academic qualification equivalents

• Entry requirements for individual programmes will vary, however, a typical offer will range between 78 and 81% in your best four Standard XII subjects (excluding Hindi and P.E).

English language requirements 

• IELTS : 6.5
• PTE: 62

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