Program Overview

Civil Engineering Undergraduate Degree Program

The Civil Engineering Undergraduate Degree Program at Toronto Metropolitan University is designed to shape thriving communities through enhanced water, transportation, and structural systems. This program fosters skillful, socially and environmentally responsible engineers.

Program Overview

• Degree: Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)
• Department: Civil Engineering
• Accreditation: Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board
• Options: Full-time 4-year program, Co-op 5-year program, with 3 optional specializations

Program Enhancements

The co-operative (co-op) and internship program offers engineering students 8, 12, and 16 months of paid, full-time on-the-job experience to develop skills, build professional connections, and gain confidence in their chosen discipline.

• Specialized Structural Engineering Option: Equips third and fourth-year students with skills in structural analysis, building systems, and design of concrete, steel, timber, and masonry, as well as bridge design and construction, and renovation/repair of existing structures.
• Environmental or Transportation Engineering Streams: Provide fourth-year students the flexibility to choose courses in one of two areas. The first area focuses on water and waste management systems that deal with climate change challenges and advancing the circular economy and resource recovery. The second area surrounds the continuously expanding transportation infrastructure, which is evolving to incorporate last-mile transport, public transit innovations, electric and autonomous vehicles, and advanced road materials.
• Optional Specialization in Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship (OSEIE): Offers business and innovation theory to help students shape ideas, develop technology, and prepare their concepts into marketable ventures.
• Optional Specialization in Management Sciences (OSMS): Focuses on engineering and operations management, operations research, finance, and organizational behavior, preparing students for engineering leadership.

Postgraduate Options

• Accelerated Masters of Applied Science Pathway: Helps research-minded students, who have a minimum CGPA of A-, earn a Master of Applied Sciences up to one year earlier.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng) License: An optional professional designation for engineering graduates through Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO).

Academic Support

• First Year Transition Program: Designed to help students who may be struggling with the pace of university learning, have missed credits, or need to improve their academic standing.

Admission Requirements

This dynamic curriculum fosters skillful, socially and environmentally responsible engineers. Courses in environmental sustainability and civil engineering impact are coupled with more technical courses focusing on wastewater management, geomatics measurement, digital mapping & navigation, structural analysis and design, highway design, project management, and more.

Career Possibilities

Careers for civil engineering graduates can be anything but typical. Graduates are employed by engineering technology and consulting companies and pursue careers in construction, mining, government agencies, and more.

• Possible employers include:
  • AECOM
  • Dillon Consulting
  • EllisDon
  • Lafarge Canada
  • Metrolinx
  • PCL Construction
  • And more

Finance Your Studies

• Entrance Scholarships: Over $10M in academic-based entrance scholarships.
• Civil Engineering-Specific Awards: Over $35k in awards for current students.
• Undergraduate Research Assistantships: Available for third-year students with a CGPA of 3.0 or more.
• Career Boost Program: Provides jobs to eligible full-time undergraduate students.
• Government Financial Aid Programs: Information on OSAP, out-of-province student loans, and U.S. student loans.