This professionally accredited MEng Honours degree includes a year in industry and an additional year of Master's-level study, boosting your employability with advanced knowledge and work experience. You focus on the design of structures, such as bridges and buildings, through topics including sustainable engineering systems and construction management. During the fourth year you develop your research skills through an investigative research project. You also study advanced topics in structural engineering, such as: seismic resistant design unique and unusual structures structural reliability and analysis Between Stages 2 and 3, you take a paid year in industry. This is a great opportunity for you to gain first-hand experience in the civil engineering sector. Some host companies even offer their placement students a job after they graduate. Between Stages 2 and 3, spend a year on a paid industrial placement, working on real-life civil engineering projects. You’ll gain first-hand experience of working in the industry, putting your learning into practice, and testing and developing your professional expertise. You'll also develop valuable workplace skills such as teamwork, communication and project management. If you impress your host company, it could even result in a job offer on graduation. The School will give you extensive support to find a suitable placement, including help to write your CV to send out to our wide range of industrial contacts. Our graduates are highly employable. The most recent data available shows that 100% of our Civil Engineering BEng Honours and MEng Honours graduates went into employment or further study within six months of graduating.

The quality of Newcastle graduates is well recognised by the engineering profession and our students have an excellent record for obtaining rewarding employment at the end of their degree programmes. In recent years, our graduates have gone on to work for a range of leading companies and authorities such as Atkins, Arup, eCOM, CH2M Hill, Mott MacDonald, MWH, Transport for London, and Balfour Beatty. As well as civil engineering careers, graduates have gone to work in the mining, nuclear, oil and gas, and renewable energy industries. Some graduates have chosen to undertake advanced study (eg PhD or MSc) in civil engineering or related subjects. Others take up commissions in the Armed Forces. An engineering degree will also equip you with the skills for a career in a wide variety of areas such as general management, administration, banking and insurance, with organisations such as HSBC and IBM.