Civil Engineering (Hons) Loughborough University

Overview

The MEng Civil Engineering (Hons) degree from  Loughborough University  involves extensive design work linked to real-life engineering problems, allowing you to develop important professional skills such as teamwork, presenting, project management and report writing. 

Key Facts

• These skills, combined with your specific technical expertise and critical thinking, will enable you to pursue a career as a professional civil engineer or choose from a wide range of other career options.
• When you graduate, you are likely to be part of a team working on the planning, design, building and maintenance of infrastructure systems such as bridges, roads, railways and a variety of buildings such as skyscrapers, airports, hospitals or sports stadia worldwide. This requires an understanding and appreciation of the various people and processes that contribute to the construction cycle, that you can only acquire by studying in an integrated School such as ours. 

Your future career:

• Having studied Civil Engineering at Loughborough, you will be well-equipped to work in any sector of the construction industry and the wider industry both in the UK and overseas.
• Our Civil Engineering degree is strongly analytical and will equip you to work in many industries and sectors. Most of our students remain in the construction sector, working for a range of companies on a wide variety of projects. Engineers have some of the top-earning starting salaries due to their unique and specialist skillset. Chartered Engineers command even higher salaries.
• Recent Civil Engineering graduates in the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering have gone on to take up various graduate and professional level roles at companies including:
• Abacus, ABP, AECOM, Amey, Arcadis, Arup, Atkins, Balfour Beatty, Bouygues, CH2M, Connect Roads, Costain, Eurovia, Fluor, Interserve, Jacobs, Kier, Laing O'Rourke, Lendlease, Lidl, MACE, Morgan Sindall, Mott MacDonald, Network Rail, Pick Everard, Schofields, Severn Trent, SISK, Skanska, Tesco, The British Army, Walter Lilly, and WSP.