Environmental Engineering
With the Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Engineering you will be part of a profession with great future and projection, as you will work in the design of new production processes that will ensure the control and mitigation of environmental problems and the conservation of natural resources, through clean energy and technologies.
During the fourth year you will be able to take one of the these two majors:
- Urban and industrial environment
- Natural environment and global change
| Academic year starts | September |
| Duration | 4 years |
| Study load | 240 ECTS (including the bachelor's thesis) |
| Delivery | On-campus |
| Language | Spanish & Catalan |
| Places | 60 |
| Official degree | Bachelor's Degree in Environmental 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.
- Interest for geology and environment
- 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 8.356.
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.
Environmental engineers work in the following fields:
- Quality control of groundwater, as well as water from rivers, lakes, seas and oceans.
- Water supply to cities.
- Treatment of waste water.
- Decontamination of soil and groundwater.
- Control measures on air and noise pollution.
- Environmental biotechnology.
- Management of solid waste.
- Environmental impact of products and processes.
- Evaluation of the impact of climate change.
- Restoration of degraded lands.
- Introduction of renewable energies.
- Environmental and natural resources economy.
- Circular economy.
- Sustainable transportation and mobility.
- Smart cities and sustainable construction.
- Green infrastructures.
- Environmental digitalization, data analysis and remote sensing.
Environmental engineers incorporate as:
- Managers and technicians in the industry, engineering, administration and services.
- University teachers.
- Free exercise of the profession.
- Researchers.
- In companies as head of the Department of Environment and Quality, implanting quality standards (ISO, EMAS) or conducting environmental audits.
- In engineering offices, developing projects for emission reduction and gas treatment, reclamation of degraded spaces, soil treatment, design and operation of WWTP (industrial and urban) and ETAP, TRS plants (industrial and urban).
- In environmental consultancies, developing diagnostic studies and environmental management plans for companies, waste minimisation and recycling (IPPC), clean production technology proposals (BAT), environmental impact assessment studies (EIA).
- In public administrations, offering technical assessment in municipal offices and councils, developing plans for the management of natural spaces, regulations and conducting environmental audits.
2022-2023 Academic year
Optional courses
Common optional courses
- Environmental impact of great infrastructures
- Renewable energies
- Sustainability & environmental ethics
- Technologies for sustainable aquaculture production
Majors
Urban & industrial environment
- Supply & drainage networks
- Sustainable mobility & Smart City
- Sustainable construction
Natural environment & global change
- Management of river & coast areas
- Climate change & natural hazards
- Transition from energy model
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.
List of bachelor's thesis currently scheduled for public presentation:
As this is a new program there is not any information available for the moment.
Related links
- Portal Camins
- Bachelor's Degree in Geological Engineering (on extinction)
Institutional information
- Data on the degree (in Catalan)
- Data on the faculty
- System of Guarantee of Degree Quality
This program has been awarded the following quality label:
