BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering in Derby United Kingdom | University of Derby

Enhance your career prospects by incorporating a placement year into your degree program. Our extensive industry connections assist you in gaining crucial experience through engineering positions with small-to-medium enterprises, national corporations, and global companies. This program offers the flexibility to include or exclude an industrial placement year. You'll engage with authentic projects and case studies while participating in site visits and field trips, allowing you to apply theoretical knowledge and cultivate the expertise that employers value. Instruction comes from seasoned civil engineering professionals, and you'll learn in our exceptional Markeaton Street facilities. Our STEM center features specialized equipment for your studies, including a 10-meter flume, advanced ground-penetrating radar, and a drone equipped with surveying and thermal imaging technology.
Upon graduation, diverse civil engineering career paths await in design, maintenance, infrastructure management, and construction sectors. Potential employers range from private contracting/consulting firms to municipal authorities, utility providers, transportation agencies like Network Rail or Highways England. Alternatively, you might pursue advanced studies through postgraduate programs such as our MSc in Civil Engineering and Construction Management.

Mandatory placement year