Environmental 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.
• Interest for geology and environment
• 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.

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.

The cut-off mark for the 2024-2025 year is 7.425.

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.

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Optional courses

Students enrolled at UPC for the Bachelor's Degree in Environmental 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.