Overview

The products of Civil Engineering include water treatment plants and distribution systems, power distribution facilities, roads, bridges, buildings, tunnels, dams, railroads, airports, docks, harbors, canals, offshore structures, and waste water treatment facilities.

What will I study?

The Civil Engineering curriculum at United States Military Academy at West Point is broad, rigorous, rewarding and relevant to the needs of the Army and the profession. The program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.

Graduates of the CE major are well prepared for professional practice, including licensure, and for subsequent graduate study in a variety of disciplines.

Why study Civil Engineering?

Civil Engineers help people and build the future. Civil, in Civil Engineering, is civilization. Every day, everyone touches and lives what Civil Engineers design and build. At its core, Civil Engineering provides an opportunity for solving challenging, real-life problems for the benefit of people.

Engineers are explorers, inventors and professionals. They push technological frontiers to improve the quality of life for our nation’s citizens today and for the future. Civil Engineers pursuing licensing as Professional Engineers, a qualification valued by the Army and demanded by society to design and build the requirements for a modern civilization.

Civil Engineering teaches you how things work. This will be of enormous benefit to you as an Army officer in an increasingly technically demanding world. The Army recognizes this and provides many postgraduate educational and research opportunities at top universities and research laboratories for its best engineering minds.

Civil Engineering teaches you how to think. Civil Engineers learn how to describe, analyze, and solve problems using mathematics and systematic problem-solving techniques. Learning to think logically and to work systematically contributes to the ability to address new and difficult problems with confidence.

Civil Engineering teaches you how to oversee complicated and interdisciplinary projects. Because a Civil Engineering education teaches you how things work and how to logically solve new problems, Civil Engineers are in very high demand as project managers across many private and public sectors.

Civil Engineering allows you to keep your options open. Civil Engineers possess excellent reasoning skills and understand their world. These qualities make Civil Engineers competitive for most graduate programs of study in engineering as well as law, business, and medicine.

Accreditation

ABET

Programme Structure

Courses:

Engineering Mechanics and Design

Infrastructure Engineering

Construction Management

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-19 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-31 00:00:00

Language

English

Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

New York City, United States

Disciplines

Civil Engineering & Construction View 508 other Bachelors in Civil Engineering & Construction in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Be sponsored by a national-level government official.

Be between the ages of 17 and 22.

Not be married or pregnant, or have any legal obligation to support children.

Up to 60 international cadets may study at West Point at any given time. Eligible countries are selected on an annual basis by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Department of Defense. The American embassies notify invited nations to nominate up to six candidates per country to compete for admission to West Point.

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Free
Out-of-State

Free
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Free

Additional Details

Fully Funded Education: West Point offers its cadets a fully funded education valued at over $250,000.

Living costs

New York City

United States

1819 - 3968 USD / month

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