Accordion Civil Engineering

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.

Find all the information on the different means of admission to the bachelor's degree.

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:
  
  • Course adaptation table GEC10 to GEC20
  • Course adaptation table GEOP to GEC20

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.

• 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.

Students enrolled at UPC for the Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering can access the following information:

Choose the subjects you want to study and simulate how your schedule will be:

In this degree, classes take 50 minutes.

• Morning: classes start at 8, 9, 10:10, 11:10, 12:10 and 13:10 with a break from 9:50 to 10:10.
• Afternoon: classes start at 14:10, 15:10, 16:10, 17:10, 18:10 and 19:10.

Grey periods are teaching hours dedicated to laboratory or test activities. Each group has their Grey periods schedules specified between brackets.

From the second year onwards, on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 14:00 there are no classes and these periods can be used for cultural activities (culture period).

To check the exam's calendar of this degree, go to ATENEA.

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.