Civil and Environmental Engineering, M.S.

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers a curriculum leading to the Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering (M.S.), and the Doctor of Philosophy in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Ph.D.) degrees. Graduate students specialize in one of the four available areas: Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, and Transportation Engineering.

Admission Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in civil or environmental engineering. Candidates in other engineering or closely related fields may be accepted with the possibility of additional undergraduate prerequisite courses being required.

The M.S. degree requires 32 credits including two credits of a seminar course. Part-time students usually have the seminar credits waived.

Joint International Programs

Administered in collaboration with the Technische Universität (TU) Braunschweig and the Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt in Germany, The University of Cantabria (UNICAN) in Santander, Spain, and Parthenope University in Naples, Italy, these dual master programs enable students to complete simultaneous engineering master’s degrees from both institutions over a two-year period.

Under this plan, University of Rhode Island master’s degree students in any engineering graduate program (Germany), in Ocean Engineering (Spain) and in Mechanical/Industrial & Systems (Italy) complete the first full year, or approximately one half of the master’s program, in Rhode Island, and then spend the second year of the program as a full-time student at the partner institution abroad. All work completed satisfactorily abroad is recognized by both the host and home universities, thus enabling students to complete degree requirements in Germany, Spain or Italy and in Rhode Island.

*As of Spring 2023, the German partnership program is available to all MS programs, the Spanish partnership is available for the OCE MS program and the Italian partnership is available for the MCE/ISE MS programs.

– Contact for TU Braunschweig and TU Darmstadt dual master programs: Sigrid Berka, sigrid_berka@uri.edu; +1 401.874.4700

– Contact for the UNICAN program in OCE: Stephen Licht, slicht@uri.edu +1 401.874.6028

– Contact for the Parthenope Program in MCE/ISE: David Chelidze, chelidze@uri.edu, +1 401.874.2356 ; Michelangelo La Luna, laluna@uri.edu; +1 401.874.5968

There are two options:

A research-oriented thesis option which requires the successful defense of a thesis (6 to 9 credits)
A non-thesis option which requires the completion of a comprehensive technical report (3 credits)

For more information about any of our graduate programs, please contact the Graduate Director.

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