Master of Science in Civil Engineering

Our infrastructure demands the attentive eye of someone like you to sustain productive communities, from our roads, buildings, and dams to air quality and wastewater treatment - and even traffic patterns. At UAB, we can give you the engineering, design, and planning background you need to be a leader in civil engineering.To prepare you for your career, weve designed a program that you can tailor based on your interests and goals. We have four concentrations for you to choose from, including construction engineering management, in which you can learn about cost and revenue estimating, risk, and more. You can also specialize in construction engineering management to learn about cost and revenue estimating, risk, and more. Plus you can choose a thesis option, non-thesis option with an emphasis on research and design, or a non-thesis option with an emphasis on sustainable engineering design. But no matter which you choose, youre going to need to both complete a comprehensive exam and defend either your research project or thesis in order to graduate. Finally, were going to offer you the opportunity to earn a certificate in environmental, structural, sustainable, and transportation engineering, or engineering construction management. In the end, youll have the best chance at an education designed to meet your specific career goals.

An undergraduate engineering degree from an ABET accredited program. Applicants who do not meet this criterion but who have an outstanding academic record in an engineering degree program not accredited by ABET, or in a baccalaureate degree program in a related field, may be admitted on probation. Students admitted in this category will be required to complete a sequence of undergraduate courses in addition to the normal requirements of the M.S. in Civil Engineering. This set of extra requirements will be specified in writing at the time of admission to the program.GPA of 3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale in all undergraduate degree major courses attempted.Three letters of evaluation concerning the applicants previous academic and professional work.A minimum score of 80 on the TOEFL or a 6.5 on the IELTS is required for international applicants whose native language is not English.