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Civil & Structural Engineering
Bridges, buildings, tunnels, water and transport infrastructure.
Who it suits
RIC
- Builder: hands-on, tools, machines, outdoors
- Thinker: analysing, researching, figuring out why
- Organiser: structure, data, precision
Students here tend to be a bit more organised than average.
Builds on
Mathematics ●●●Physics ●●●
Typically offers
High salary · Job security
Where it leads
Civil engineer · Structural engineer · Construction manager · Transport engineer
US median earnings, one year after a bachelor’s
$62,972
College Scorecard, US Department of Education
1,693 programmes tracked
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