The Best Structural Engineering Universities

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• Rensselaer does not distinguish a structural engineering master or PhD from a civil engineering degree, but offers graduate level classes that allow a student to get the necessary education to work as a structural engineer. For most students the masters program requires two years to complete, and the PhD program requires three years, or one year for someone who already holds a master's degree.

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  110 Eighth Street

  Troy, NY USA 12180

  518-276-6000

  rpi.edu

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• The University of Illinois offers a joint masters degree program that allows a student to get simultaneous masters degrees in civil engineering and structural architecture. Students must have completed the first semester of first year masters courses before applying to the joint degree program, and participation is not guaranteed. Students must demonstrate academic excellence and commitment to receive entrance into the joint program. Graduation from the program requires 78 graduate level credit hours.

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  205 North Mathews Ave.

  Urbana, IL 61801-2352

  217-333-8038

  cee.illinois.edu

Purdue University

• Purdue's masters program has built-in flexibility to allow students to focus on the specialties they have the most interest in, and to prepare the students for real life professional engineering practice. This approach has led to Purdue regularly ranking as one of the top 10 civil engineering universities in the United States.

  Purdue University

  550 Stadium Mall Drive

  West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051

  765-494-2166

  purdue.edu

University of California - San Diego

• The Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD has a dedicated structural engineering department. It is one of few Universities that offers an undergraduate structural engineering degree in addition to the masters and PhD level programs. The program uses a multi-disciplinary program to give students necessary classes in civil engineering, aerospace and marine engineering with a focus on the structural components of each discipline. Both students and faculty involved in the program have won numerous awards for excellence.

  University of California - San Diego

  Department of Structural Engineering

  Irwin & Joan Jacobs School of Engineering

  University of California, San Diego

  9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0085

  La Jolla, CA 92093-0085

  858-822-1421

  structures.ucsd.edu