Civil Engineering
Bachelor's Degree (2020 program)
This master's degree allows for a Double Degree with the Bachelor's degree in Architectural Technology & Building Construction
Our graduates are entitled to be professional civil engineers responsible for planning, management, construction and conservation of civil engineering projects.
Civil engineering is a versatile area of knowledge and is present in many areas of action, most of which are emerging and strategic, such as: sustainable mobility, water supply, renewable energy and energy transition, Smart Cities, Just-in-Time logistics, circular economy, or climate change, among others.
These are the professionals who already contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set by the United Nations.
| Academic year starts | September |
| Duration | 4 years |
| Study load | 240 ECTS (including the bachelor's thesis) |
| Delivery | On-campus |
| Language | Spanish, Catalan & English |
| Places | 120 |
| Official degree | Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (recorded in the Spanish Ministry of Education's degree register) |
We recommend for applicants to have completed high-school courses in science and technology and have the following characteristics:
- Advanced knowledge of basic physics and mathematics studies.
- Analytic skills
- Abstraction and attention to detail skills.
- Observation skills.
Means of admission
Find all the information on the different means of admission to the bachelor's degree.
Admission
To access the degree studies of Barcelona School of Civil Engineering, you must obtain a place through the university pre-enrolment procedure of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
You can check all the information regarding university pre-registration through the University Admission site.
Cut-off mark and grade improvement
The cut-off mark for the 2022-2023 year is 6.788.
Please check the Generalitat de Catalunya's Department of Universities and Research site for more information on the cut-off marks for former years.
You can also check the courses that will improve your admission grades.
Since the 2020-2021 academic year the Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering (2010 program) and the Bachelor's Degree in Public Works Engineering will become extinct and will no longer accept new students. Students enrolled in these programs in extinction will have two choices:
- To continue with their current program (see extinction time table)
- To undergo an adaptation to the new 2020 program for the Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering:
- Courses adaptation table GEC10 to GEC20
- Courses adaptation table GEOP to GEC20
Career opportunities
Civil engineers and engineers are incorporated as technicians, managers, designers, consultants or builders in companies related to:
- infrastructures,
- flow of water, energy, goods and people,
- ports, airports, stations and logistics centres,
- natural resource management and recycling companies and institutions,
- companies and institutions involved in the public use of cities,
- consulting companies, and
- quality laboratories.
Learning objectives
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Civil engineers are qualified professionals with a high analytical and decisive capacity that allows them seeking efficient and sustainable solutions to complex technological and engineering problems.
- With this degree you will acquire a solid formation, a broad domain of technical knowledge and work management skills.
- These studies enable to practice the regulated profession of Public Works Engineer.
- Once the degree is finished, you will have the option of accessing the Master's Degree in Civil Engineering.
Warning
A minimum of 10.5 common elective ECTS credits must be completed. It is mandatory to enroll in at least one subject offered as a common elective.
Options:
- 10.5 ECTS in common elective subjects or other elective subjects from the chosen track or from other tracks (as long as 1 subject is a common elective), or
- 4.5 ECTS common elective subject + 6 ECTS elective curricular practices, or
- 4.5 ECTS common elective subject + 6 ECTS extracurricular activities.
Summary of the curriculum (in catalan language)
To see the different itineraries, as well as the subjects to enroll in each of them, click on the following link: Print version
Itinerary in Technology Applied to Civil Constructions
COURSES |
ECTS |
| Fourth year | |
| Fall semester | |
| Mandatory by itinerary | |
| 2500030 - Maritime constructions | 4.5 |
| 2500031 - Geotechnical engineering (G10A & G10B in English) | 4.5 |
| 2500037 - Structural design | 6 |
| 2500038 - Construction of bridges & other structures | 6 |
| Elective by itinerary | |
| 2500039 - Prestressed concrete | 4,5 |
| Elective common to the 3 itineraries | |
| 2500035 - Sustainability, social and environmental impact | 4,5 |
| 2500060 - Communication techniques | 4,5 |
| Spring semester | |
| Mandatory by itinerary | |
| 2500046 - Building construction & prefabrication | 7,5 |
| Elective by itinerary | |
| 2500047 - Introduction to structure management | 4,5 |
| 2500059 - Construction management | 4,5 |
| 2500056 - Geotechnical constructions | 4,5 |
| Elective common to the 3 itineraries | |
| 2500032 - Graphic design & numerical analysis | 4,5 |
| 2500033 - Instrumentation & remote sensing | 4,5 |
| 2500034 - History of civil engineering | 4,5 |
| 2500036 - Machine learning & data science (G10 in English) | 4,5 |
| Fall & spring semesters | |
| 2500057 - Bachelor's thesis | 12 |
Itinerary in Technology Applied to Hydrology
COURSES |
ECTS |
| Fourth year | |
| Fall semester | |
| Mandatory by itinerary | |
| 2500030 - Maritime constructions | 4.5 |
| 2500031 - Geotechnical engineering (G10A & G10B in English) | 4.5 |
| 2500040 - Hydraulic constructions | 6 |
| 2500041 - Sanitary engineering | 4,5 |
| Elective by itinerary | |
| 2500042 - Environmental impact on maritime works (G10 in English) | 4,5 |
| Elective common to the 3 itineraries | |
| 2500035 - Sustainability, social and environmental impact | 4,5 |
| 2500060 - Communication techniques | 4,5 |
| Spring semester | |
| Mandatory by itinerary | |
| 2500049 - Surface & groundwater hydrology II | 4,5 |
| 2500050 - Port engineering | 4,5 |
| Elective by itinerary | |
| 2500051 - Water supply | 4,5 |
| 2500052 - Design & analysis tools in hydraulic engineering | 4,5 |
| Elective common to the 3 itineraries | |
| 2500032 - Graphic design & numerical analysis | 4,5 |
| 2500033 - Instrumentation & remote sensing | 4,5 |
| 2500034 - History of civil engineering | 4,5 |
| 2500036 - Machine learning & data science (G10 in English) | 4,5 |
| Fall & spring semesters | |
| 2500057 - Bachelor's thesis | 12 |
Itinerary in Technology Applied to Urban Transportation & Services
COURSES |
ECTS |
| Fourth year | |
| Fall semester | |
| Mandatory by itinerary | |
| 2500030 - Maritime constructions | 4.5 |
| 2500031 - Geotechnical engineering (G10A & G10B in English) | 4.5 |
| 2500043 - Construction of transportation infrastructures | 6 |
| 2500044 - Transportation management | 6 |
| Elective by itinerary | |
| 2500045 - Elements of urban sustainability | 4,5 |
| Elective common to the 3 itineraries | |
| 2500035 - Sustainability, social and environmental impact | 4,5 |
| 2500060 - Communication techniques | 4,5 |
| Spring semester | |
| Mandatory by itinerary | |
| 2500053 - Administration, urban planning & public services | 7,5 |
| Elective by itinerary | |
| 2500054 - Infrastructure preservation | 4,5 |
| 2500055 - Urban logistics & transportation terminals | 4,5 |
| Elective common to the 3 itineraries | |
| 2500032 - Graphic design & numerical analysis | 4,5 |
| 2500033 - Instrumentation & remote sensing | 4,5 |
| 2500034 - History of civil engineering | 4,5 |
| 2500036 - Machine learning & data science (G10 in English) | 4,5 |
| Fall & spring semesters | |
| 2500057 - Bachelor's thesis | 12 |
Students enrolled at UPC for the Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering can access the following information:
The Bachelor's Thesis is an original exercise to be done individually and presented and defended before a university panel consisting in a project in the sphere of the specific civil engineering synthesising and integrating the competences acquired on the course.
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