Civil and environmental engineering
Civil engineers design, build and maintain the physical world around us. They ensure we’re supplied with electricity, clean water and energy, and keep us moving with roads, bridges and airports. Become a civil engineer and you’ll be advancing and protecting the very fabric of modern society.
13th
In the UK for civil engineering in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024
13th
In the UK for civil engineering in the Complete University Guide 2025
Scholarship scheme
We are offering a bursary of £1,950 every year, with salaried training in industry, for up to 25 civil engineering students.
We match successful applicants with a suitable company mid-way through the first year, and the company provides training throughout the course, as well as paid training through the summer vacation. This scheme will enhance your career potential after graduation and is thoroughly recommended by our scholarship students.
Developing your employability
96 per cent of our undergraduate graduates go on to employment or further study*
Chartered engineer status
Our BEng and MEng courses are accredited routes to chartered engineer status
*Graduate Outcomes 2023, HESA.
Why choose our civil engineering course
Design, assemble and dismantle (DAD) project
We offer a tailor made design, assemble and dismantle (DAD) project every year, for civil engineering students at all levels, which is about the design, assembly and dismantling of a full scale lattice structure. Each team designs a structure based on the materials that are available, and then another team will use these designs to build the structure within a two-hour time frame.
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Developing your employability
96 per cent of our postgraduate graduates go on to employment or further study*
*Graduate Outcomes survey 2023.
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Research excellence
The Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) ranked engineering 15th in the UK for *research power
Developing your employability
96 per cent of our research graduates go on to employment or further study**
*Research power is the overall quality of submissions, calculated by grade point average and multiplied by the full-time equivalent number of staff submitted.
**Graduate Outcomes 2023, HESA.
Studentships
Modelling and monitoring greenhouse gas emissions with robots
Funding information:
UKRI standard stipend of £19,237 (2024/25), Full UK tuition fee waiver (£4,786).Numerical study of the explosion characteristics and potential mitigation measures of ammonia in air
Funding information:
Home/UK fees covered, plus UKRI Standard Stipend p/a, currently at £19,237 for 2024-25.China Scholarship Council - Surrey Awards
Funding information:
Successful candidates will each receive a full tuition and bench fee waiver (if any applicable).CSC will provide each scholarship recipient with a living stipend (incl. medical insurance) as prescribed from time to time by the Chinese Government. CSC will also cover an international roundtrip airfare of economy class between China and the United Kingdom and will provide a one-off visa application fee reimbursement. 
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