Everything you need to know...
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What is the fee?
Home: See fees section below
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How long will I study?
2 Years
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Where will I study?
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When do I start?
September 2025
Course summary
- Convert your existing qualifications into a civil engineering honours degree.
- Learn how to use artificial intelligence (AI) on structures and transportation.
- Apply holistic design to industry projects, solving complex engineering challenges.
- Explore civil engineering’s impact on our economy, society and surroundings.
- Understand the techniques to design, construct and maintain our built environment.
This course prepares you for a dynamic career in the civil engineering sector. You’ll explore the planning and design of construction and transportation systems – from roads and highways to railways and broader infrastructure projects. You’ll consider sustainability and environmental factors, emerging as a highly skilled civil engineer ready to navigate the future challenges of the industry.
This top-up award is suitable for students who have a Level 5 degree (Fd, HND, DipHE) and would like to gain a recognised BEng degree to enhance their career prospects.
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How you learn
All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.
On this course you’ll benefit from the latest academic research and industrial practice – your course material is regularly updated to the latest standards and needs of the industry. You’ll learn from industry experts with research experience in their relevant fields.
You learn through:
- Diverse lectures emphasising peer collaboration
- Tutorials to practise and apply your knowledge ahead of assessments
- Hands-on lab experience in computational modelling and simulation
- Q&A and discussions for self-assessment and understanding
- Support sessions for receiving feedback and preparing for assessments
- Teamwork activities for collaboration in an innovative environment
- Project-based learning to apply knowledge, creativity, design, critical analysis and professional skills to real-world projects
Course topics
The course combines theoretical knowledge with practical hands-on experience. Core modules cover the main areas of specialisation for civil engineers – including structures, geotechnics, hydraulics, transportation and project management.
The project module will provide you with the opportunity to showcase your learning as an independent learner. You’ll be able to focus on a topic that helps you establish the foundation of your future career.
You’ll receive feedback in a variety of ways throughout the course – from written comments on a piece of work, to informal face-to-face feedback from lecturers and peers.
Course support
You’ll be supported in your learning journey towards highly skilled, graduate level employment. This includes:
- Access to our student support triangle comprising an academic adviser, an employability adviser and a student support adviser who will help with your personal, academic and career development
- Access to our Skills Centre with one to ones, webinars, and online resources, where you can get help with planning and structuring your assignments
- The Engineering Café, a weekly drop-in session where you can ask questions and get advice from academics
- A dedicated Maths and Stats Support drop-in session that runs twice a week
Course leaders and tutors
Georgios Papavasileiou
Principal Lecturer - Subject Group Leader for ‘Energy, Infrastructure and Environment’Principal Lecturer
Applied learning
Live projects
The course enables you to apply your learning to real-world examples. You’ll undertake an applied project to show your civil engineering knowledge and project management skills. There’s also an emphasis on group work and problem-based learning.
Networking opportunities
Guest lecturers from the industry and academia will be invited to provide a talk on their field of expertise, allowing you to become familiar with a wide range of industry contexts.
You’ll be able to explore the industry through site visits, guest lectures, project work, potential placements, and visits by professional bodies such as Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) and Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Competitions
We support and encourage you to enter national and international competitions such as the young structural engineering international design competition, the ICE civil engineer of the year award and the British construction industry awards.
Future careers
The course builds on your existing engineering skills and knowledge, allowing you to advance from qualifications such as FdEng or HND to a BEng (Hons).
This course prepares you for a career in:
- The construction industry
- Transportation planning
- Government agencies and local councils
- Geotechnical engineering
- Structural engineering
- Water engineering
- Research and development
Where will I study?
You study at City Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.
City Campus
City Campus is located in the heart of Sheffield, within minutes of the train and bus stations.
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Adsetts library
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Learn moreEquipment and facilities
On this course you’ll work with researchers and projects using facilities and equipment from our Materials and Engineering Research Institute (MERI) and our Hertha Ayrton STEM Centre.
You’ll have access to:
- Modern teaching rooms and collaborative spaces
- Laptops in teaching rooms for seminars and desktops in labs where required
- Labs with material characterisation equipment, light and heavy structures testing frames, hydraulic flume, CBR testing and shear box
- Industry-standard software and tools
- Finite Element Analysis software such as Ansys, Abaqus and OpenSEES
- Computational Fluid Dynamics software
Entry requirements
All students
Foundation degree or HND in a relevant discipline and aiming to develop your qualification to degree level.
Additional information for EU/International students
This course is not open to international students who require a Tier 4 (General) student visa to study in the UK. If you are an international applicant but do not require a Tier 4 (General) student visa, email our Admissions Team to find out whether you’re eligible to apply.
Modules
Important notice: The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page. .
Year 1
Compulsory modules
Structural Engineering And Foundation Design
Water And Transportation Engineering
Final year
Compulsory modules
Project: Implementation
Project: Management And Scoping
Fees and funding
Home students
Our tuition fees for UK students starting part-time undergraduate study in 2025/26 are regulated by the UK government and are yet to be confirmed. For an indication, our tuition fees for UK students starting this course in 2024/25 are £4,625 per year (based on studying 60 credits per year).
If you are studying an undergraduate course, postgraduate pre-registration course or postgraduate research course over more than one academic year then your tuition fees may increase in subsequent years in line with Government regulations or UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) published fees. More information can be found in our terms and conditions under student fees regulations.
Financial support for home/EU students
How tuition fees work, student loans and other financial support available.
Additional course costs
This link allows you to view estimated costs associated with the main activities on specific courses. These are estimates and, as such, are only an indication of additional course costs. Actual costs can vary greatly depending on the choices you make during your course.
Additional costs for Engineering courses (PDF, 327.4KB)Legal information
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