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School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering (ABCE)

Civil and Building Engineering

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Key skills developed during your degree

A civil engineering degree develops many skills that are valued not only by engineering employers but also by those in a variety of sectors, including financial services, management and information technology.

  • Ability to research and analyse and interpret data
  • Analytical and decision making ability
  • Awareness of issues when planning and managing projects
  • Business/Commercial awareness
  • Communication skills, written and oral
  • Creativity and problem solving ability
  • Critical thinking and the ability to evaluate design, plans and projects
  • Interpersonal and team-working skills
  • Languages (optional module)
  • Numeracy and computer literacy
  • Organisation, time-management and planning skills
  • Understanding of effective leadership skills and management
  • Understanding of health and safety

Career options

Career areas related to the Civil & Building Engineering courses:

Careers where your degree would be useful:

  • Remember 60% of graduate roles are open to all disciplines. A civil engineering degree develops many skills that are valued not only by engineering employers but also by those in a variety of sectors, including financial services, management and information technology.

*You can also look at other course pages depending on other modules you have taken and/or are interested in*

Further study

Further study at Loughborough University:

The School of Civil and Building Engineering offers postgraduate courses in a variety of disciplines

The School also offers PhD / MPhil research opportunities

Further study elsewhere:

Postgraduate taught programmes:

PhD opportunities:

Professional development websites:

Where do graduates go?

What do Loughborough Civil and Building Engineering graduates do?

Graduates from this subject area have gone on to destinations where:

Employers included:

AECOM, Arup, Arcadis, BAM, British Army, Faithful + Gould, Kier Group, Laing O’Rourke, London Projects Ltd, Mace, Morgan Sindall, Mott MacDonald, Skanska, Vinci Construction UK.

Roles included:

Army Officer, Commercial Manager, Construction Manager, Geotechnical Engineer, Graduate Civil Engineer, Graduate Site Manager, Graduate Structural Engineer, Professional Quantity Surveyor, Project Quality Surveyor, Site Engineer, Technical Services Graduate.

Further Study included:

MSc Environmental Engineering.

Further information

For more information on companies graduates work for, industry links and career opportunities, visit the subject area page of the University website.  You can also find out what our students say in our student stories of personal journeys through and beyond Loughborough and track the career journeys and Loughborough experiences of some of our alumni.

 

 

Resources to research career areas

 Websites:

Resources to find experience, placements and graduate jobs

Students have the option of taking a year-long placement in industry which provides an invaluable opportunity to develop their professional and technical skills further.

Additionally, we advertise many opportunities for summer internships and encourage students to gain experience valuable in the workplace through extra-curricular activities such as volunteering, committee memberships, work-shadowing and part-time work.

Other useful links:                                             

Professional bodies, sector and labour market information (LMI)

Professional bodies:

Sector and labour market information (LMI):

 

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