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Programme presentation
Civil Engineering focuses on the development, planning, design, and construction of building and engineering structures.
The MSc programme in Civil Engineering offers a wide range of courses in mechanics, material science, energy technology, heat and mass transfer, fire safety, hydraulics, acoustics, risk assessment, computer modelling and simulation, 3D visualization, communication, and management.
The study programme alternates between theory and practice, providing you with an overview of all stages of the construction process—from calculation and computer simulation to project management and construction of buildings.
Specializations
The MSc programme in Civil Engineering allows you to specialize in one of the seven study lines:
- Building Structures
- Building Services
- Bridges, Roads, and Marine Structures
- Urban Planning and Construction Management
- Marine Technology and Coastal Engineering
- Marine Technology and Geotechnical Engineering
- Extreme Engineering
- Option 1 - Sustainable Buildings
- Option 2 - Infrastructure Constructions
About programme
Mandatory courses:
| 11376 | Probabilistic Modeling in Civil Engineering | 5 | point | F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
For students that do not follow a study line, the following two courses are strongly recommended:
| 11465 | Advanced Geotechnical Engineering | 5 | point | F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 11563 | Concrete Technology | 5 | point | E5A (Wed 8-12) |
Choose the remaining points (for a total of at least 30 ECTS points) among the following courses:
| 11020 | Building Fire Safety | 5 | point | E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 11080 | Advanced Building Design | 10 | point | E3A (Tues 8-12) and January |
| 11122 | Heat and mass transfer in buildings | 5 | point | E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 11222 | Indoor Climate | 10 | point | F5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 11345 | Computational structural modelling: plates and shells | 5 | point | E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 11465 | Advanced Geotechnical Engineering | 5 | point | F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 11563 | Concrete Technology | 5 | point | E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 11857 | Extreme Climate and Physical Nature | 5 | point | Spring |
| 11858 | The Arctic Infrastructure and Society | 5 | point | Outside schedule structure |
| 11859 | Environmental Engineering in the Arctic | 5 | point | Outside schedule structure |
| 31241 | Building acoustics | 5 | point | E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 41106 | Marine Structures 1 | 5 | point | F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 41111 | Hydrodynamics 2 | 5 | point | E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 41214 | Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Analysis | 7.5 | point | F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 42280 | Smart, Connected, and Livable Cities | 5 | point | E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 42286 | Planning and management in construction | 5 | point | January, June |
Technological Specialization Courses
| 11023 | Structural Fire Safety Design | 5 | point | E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 11034 | Advanced Building Information Modeling (BIM) | 5 | point | E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 11115 | Building energy and technical services - Integrated design | 5 | point | E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 11116 | Sustainable Buildings | 10 | point | E2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 11117 | Solar Heating Systems | 10 | point | F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 11124 | Computational Fluid Dynamics for Buildings | 5 | point | E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 11127 | Sustainable heating and cooling of buildings | 5 | point | F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 11129 | Sustainable District Heating | 5 | point | F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 11221 | Ventilation and Climatic Systems | 10 | point | E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 11320 | Structural Analysis of buildings | 5 | point | E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 11331 | Experimental Structural Mechanics | 5 | point | January |
| 11347 | Computational structural modelling: Plasticity | 5 | point | E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 11351 | Advanced Concrete Structures | 5 | point | E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 11352 | Advanced Steel Structures | 5 | point | F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 11353 | Advanced Wood Structures | 5 | point | F5B (wed 13-17) |
| 11374 | Seismic and Wind Engineering | 10 | point | E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 11375 | Bridge Structures | 5 | point | E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 11418 | Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics | 5 | point | E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 11420 | Mineral resources | 5 | point | E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 11430 | Advanced engineering geology: soil and porous rocks | 5 | point | E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 11451 | Highway pavements | 5 | point | E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 11464 | Advanced Soil Mechanics | 5 | point | The course is expected to be offered again in the Fall of 2015 |
| 11569 | Durability and repair of concrete structures | 5 | point | F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 11853 | Sustainable building in extreme environments | 15 | point | Outside schedule structure |
| 11854 | Infrastructure Constructions in the Arctic | 15 | point | Spring |
| 31240 | Architectural Acoustics | 10 | point | F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 41113 | Numerical fluid mechanics for typical marine and coastal applications | 5 | point | January |
| 41117 | Marine Structures 2 | 5 | point | E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 41126 | Fluvial and Marine Sediment Transport | 5 | point | F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 41224 | Linear Wave Dynamics | 5 | point | E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 41225 | Nonlinear Wave Dynamics | 5 | point | F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 41653 | Corrosion (theory and engineering) | 10 | point | E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 42259 | Facilities Management | 5 | point | E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 42273 | Urban Planning and Sustainable Urban Development | 10 | point | F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
| 42279 | Interdisciplinary Urban Planning Course of Danish Universities | 15 | point | F4A (Tues 13-17) and F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 42433 | Advanced Engineering Project, Program and Portfolio Management | 10 | point | E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
Requirements
- Passport or national ID card
- Supporting documents uploaded as one document
- copy of passport or national ID card
- statement of purpose (A 400 - 600 Word statement of goals, research interests and experiences, including the subject of your bachelor thesis)
- CV
- two recommendation letters (should be on the university or company letterhead and signed by the concerned)
- diploma supplement (optional) (can be submitted later - please refer to the deadlines)
- Description of the grade scale used at your home university (optional). In many cases this is stated on your academic transcript, or on the university website.
- Description of how the grade scale is applied at your university (optional). It can e.g. be what percentage of students who get the top marks per year, or information similar to this.
- Documentation of completed academic degrees or in-progress academic degrees: (All academic documents should be certified)
- Transcript of records (in original language and translated into English)
- Diploma (in original language and translated into English) - (can be submitted later - please refer to the deadlines)
When applying for admission, you must provide evidence of your academic attainments and proficiency in English. Certificates and academic transcripts in languages other than Danish, English, Norwegian or Swedish must be accompanied by a certified translation into one of those four languages. DTU will only accept IELTS, TOEFL and Pearson certificates that we can verify online.
Applicants from other universities are qualified if they have completed a similar BSc in Civil Engineering with basics of:
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Physics and mathematics incl. differential equations
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CAD, programming (Matlab) and the Finite Element Method
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Building materials, properties, and micro structures
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Building technology
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Structural design in steel, concrete, and wood
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Building physics including heat and moisture transport
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Planning and production of building projects
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Students with a Bachelor of Science degree (or equivalent), in natural science or technology, obtained at an internationally recognized university, are eligible for enrolment
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English B-level:
IELTS 6.5 TOEFL internet-based 88 TOEFL paper-based 573 TOEFL computer-based 230 Pearson 59
Want to improve your English level for admission?
Prepare for the program requirements with English Online by the British Council.
- ✔️ Flexible study schedule
- ✔️ Experienced teachers
- ✔️ Certificate upon completion
📘 Recommended for students with an IELTS level of 6.0 or below.
Financial support and scholarships
DTU has a very limited number of tuition fee waivers to award foreign, new non-EU/EEA MSc students at DTU. The tuition fee waivers are allocated to a few students with excellent academic performance. The tuition fee waiver is usually granted to cover part of the tuition fee, or in exceptional cases, the total tuition fee. The tuition fee waivers will be awarded in March/April.
All non-EU/EEA students who apply before the 15 January deadline and who wish to apply for a tuition fee waiver must submit a separate personal statement with the application, clearly specifying that you are applying for the tuition fee waiver. The personal statement must include graduate goals, research interests, and experiences. Please target your personal statement to the admission requirements and curriculum for the MSc program in question. If you do not include a separate statement for the waiver, your application will not be considered for the same.
Global Study Awards:
Study Portals are offering the Global Study Awards to 9 students, starting their studies in 2016.
To be eligible for The Global Study Awards applicants must:
- Be 18 years or over on the study programme start date
- Have taken an IELTS test at a British Council centre, and receive an official Test Report Form (TRF) issued by the British Council in the last 2 years and before the application deadline
- Have a valid International Student Identity Card (ISIC) and/or International Youth Travel Card (IYTC) at the time of application: if there’s no local issuing office for the ISIC identity card in your country, contact competitions@isic.org
- Plan to enrol on a full-time undergraduate or postgraduate programme abroad between 1 August 2016 and 31 October 2016
- Provide an acceptance letter from the relevant institution by the relevant cut-off date
- Write a short review of your study experience at STeXX.com: the review for STeXX.com should be about your past experience as a student in your country of origin. It is not about your study abroad experience.
You can choose any university, as long as it is abroad from your country of origin.
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