Civil Engineering

BEng Civil Engineering at Keele prepares you to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure that keeps society running. From sustainable transport networks and climate-resilient cities to renewable energy systems and water supply, you’ll gain the skills to tackle real-world challenges, combining technical knowledge, creativity, and problem-solving to shape a more sustainable and resilient future.

Why choose this course?

• Benefit from industry-informed teaching, networking opportunities, and practical learning

• Build key employability skills including data analysis, critical thinking, and evidence-based problem solving

• Flexible pathways let you choose an engineering specialism, with the option to exit with a BEng or continue to an MEng

• Gain industry experience through a work placement year, preparing you for a range of careers

• Study abroad with an international year to broaden your horizons

Civil engineering addresses the world’s most pressing infrastructure challenges: safe and reliable water supplies, climate-resilient cities, sustainable transport networks, renewable energy systems, and the preservation of our built and natural environments. Combining science, creativity, and problem-solving, Civil Engineers design, construct, and maintain the systems and structures that underpin society. Every project offers the chance to improve lives and contribute to a sustainable, resilient future.

This programme is designed to support your development as a professional engineer. You’ll begin with Engineering Fundamentals, gaining the scientific and technical knowledge to tackle complex problems. Alongside this, Engineering Skills will strengthen your practical ability through labs, workshops, and training in communication and project management. Engineering Simulation and Mathematics will then help you apply advanced analysis and modelling techniques, allowing you to understand and present engineering concepts with precision.

Specialist civil engineering study begins with structural analysis, soil mechanics, and fluid mechanics, alongside early exploration of sustainability and digital engineering methods. As you progress, you will learn to address complex applications, including system performance, construction technology, and modelling with building information modelling (BIM) and geographic information systems (GIS). In your final year, you will integrate your knowledge to tackle sustainability and circular economy challenges, explore innovations in structural health monitoring, smart infrastructure, flood and coastal resilience, and low-carbon construction materials, while developing leadership, teamwork, communication, and research skills through an individual research dissertation and a collaborative industry-led design project.

About Keele

Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.

Course Modules

For a list of indicative modules please visit the course page on the Keele University website.