Structural Engineering MSc

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Overview

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MSc

  • MSc Structural Engineering, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 10200 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500
  • MSc Structural Engineering, home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 1700 per 30 credit module
  • MSc Structural Engineering, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 15960 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500
    International applications are closed for 2024

MSc with Placement Year

  • MSc Structural Engineering, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 2 years
    • Pound 10200 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500
  • MSc Structural Engineering, home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 1700 per 30 credit module
  • MSc Structural Engineering, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 2 years
    • Pound 15960 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500
    International applications are closed for 2024

MSc

  • MSc Structural Engineering, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 10200 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500
  • MSc Structural Engineering, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1/2 years
    • Pound 15960 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500

MSc with Placement Year

  • MSc Structural Engineering, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 2 years
    • Pound 10200 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500
  • MSc Structural Engineering, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 2 years
    • Pound 15960 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3500

What makes this course different

50 years' experience

We have a wealth of experience in this field. For more than 50 years we have offered postgraduate courses in structural engineering, led by respected engineers and scientists with an impressive body of research.

Our courses are ranked third in London

Our Civil Engineering courses are ranked third in London (Guardian University Guide league table 2018).

Industrial placement

The industrial placement is an integral part of this programme, which is designed to address the demands of the profession and give you a competitive edge when it comes to your career.

Course modules

NOTE: Modules are subject to change. For those studying part time courses the modules may vary.

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Your future career

Your future career

There is an acknowledged shortage of skilled structural engineers with the right qualifications and experience. We have designed this course to fill this skills gap and give you a competitive edge when it comes to your career.

Graduates from our MSc Structural Engineering course can expect to find work in a variety of consultancy and contracting roles in fields such as structural engineering, infrastructure projects, geotechnical engineering, highways, and transportation.

The skills you will develop while gaining your MSc will also enhance your career prospects in other related areas such as research and management.

With access to our strong and diverse academic knowledge base and the opportunities to apply that knowledge professionally, we will give you the best possible head start.

Our Docklands location means that we are uniquely placed for links to industry employers, and we have strong contacts with organisations in the local area, including Crossrail, Thames Water, and the London Borough of Newham.

Our students have an excellent track record of employment and have landed jobs in sectors that include aviation, infrastructure, transport, and construction.

Within our School, we also have a dedicated careers advisory service as well as an active alumni network able to facilitate contact with prospective employers.

Our students have gone on to win fantastic industry-leading awards, including three at the Concrete Centre awards - First prize in 2016 and 2018, and the sustainability award in 2019

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.

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The course gave me a sound appreciation of structural engineering, structural analysis and modelling. With such competition for construction jobs today, the depth and quality of the course have been invaluable. I would recommend it to anybody interested in engineering. Now that I work for Atkins, I continuously use the knowledge gained at UEL."
Alfred Kwaku Bullah

MSc Structural Engineering

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated careers support, and further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting-edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

Our dedicated and award-winning team provide you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Online jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work.
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts 
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme which issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you’ve mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top

  • Enterprise and entrepreneurship support 
  • We are ranked 6th for graduate start-ups 
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations 
  • Support in starting a new business, freelancing and self-employment 
  • London on our doorstep

What you'll learn

The course includes a number of self-contained, taught modules organised around the various areas of structural engineering. The wide range of subjects covered includes Advanced Structural Analysis, Design in Steel and Concrete, Structural Stability and Dynamics, and Soil Structure Engineering.

The taught modules are complemented by a research dissertation project that you will undertake at the end of your course. This dissertation is your route to becoming an accredited chartered engineer.

There is a highly practical emphasis on our MSc. You will learn the theory and then apply it through working on projects in our extensive laboratories and during fieldwork.

These projects will provide you with the learning opportunities and practical skills you will need in your future career. You will graduate with a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the most up-to-date practices and theories in structural engineering.

About the industrial placement

This course is also available as a two-year master's with an industrial placement year. The industrial placement is designed to address the demands of the profession and give students a competitive edge when it comes to their careers. The industrial placement component is for the duration of an academic year, i.e., normally 30 weeks including a minimum of 24 weeks of delivery time. It starts after students have successfully completed the 1st year of study, i.e., all the taught modules and the dissertation component of the MSc course which together form 180 credits. Please refer to the course specification for the summary of the course structure and further information.

Students on the MSc with Placement courses must pass all taught modules of their respective course plus dissertation to gain 180 credits before they become eligible to progress to the next stage and undertake an industrial placement. Students on the MSc course with placement will also normally be required to fulfil the 80% attendance requirement (on all modules) to be eligible to progress to the industrial placement. Students unable to meet the above requirements to progress successfully will normally be moved to the one-year full-time version of the course and their student visa, if any, will be curtailed accordingly.

It is ultimately the student's responsibility to secure their placement and the University cannot guarantee placements. The University will offer guidance and support and recommend students to many of our industrial partners who have expressed strong support and interest in the programme. 

During the industrial placement period, you will undertake an internship within a partner organisation  (or by means of alternative arrangements such as projects led by industry and carried out on campus) and complete a zero-credit Industrial Placement Module. 

There are additional fees for the placement module (in the second year of the course), in addition to the fees for the taught modules and dissertation paid in the first year. 

How you'll learn

All modules include coursework, for which you will have opportunities to apply your knowledge to engineering projects based on real-life scenarios.
This coursework will include analysis and design projects, research reports, group and seminar presentations, and a research dissertation project.

You will also attend lectures, seminars, and tutorials and you will work both individually and in groups.

To support the hands-on nature of this course, we have an impressive range of facilities. Our modern, well-equipped laboratories are open to students all day and include dedicated structures, soil mechanics, hydraulics, highways, and surveying labs. We also have superb computer facilities and the very latest design and planning software.

About the industrial placement 

This course is also available as a two-year master's with an industrial placement year. The industrial placement is designed to address the demands of the profession and give students a competitive edge when it comes to their careers. The placement component is up to 12 months in duration, which starts after you have successfully completed the taught modules, and before the dissertation stage.

It is ultimately the student's responsibility to secure their placement. The University will offer guidance and support, and we also recommend students to many of our industrial partners who have expressed strong support and interest in the programme. 

If you are an international student on a Tier 4 visa, your CAS will have a course duration of two years, subject to your meeting the UKVI's standard requirements. During the industrial placement period, you undertake an internship within a partner organisation and complete a zero-credit Industrial Placement Module. The criteria for progression to industrial placement is the successful completion of the MSc taught modules with a minimum 50% pass mark. 

How you will be assessed

We assess you through a mix of coursework, your research dissertation and examinations.

Campus and facilities

Docklands Campus, London, E16 2RD

Who teaches this course

This course is delivered by School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering

The teaching team includes qualified academics, practitioners and industry experts as guest speakers. Full details of the academics will be provided in the student handbook and module guides.