Top 5 Universities In The World For Studying Civil Engineering

If you are interested in studying and developing a physically built environment, you will have to pursue formal education in civil engineering. Civil engineering is the discipline that offers you the right knowledge and skills necessary for this purpose. Note that the very phrase’ civil engineering is a vast term and encompasses a whole range of sub-disciplines such as forensic engineering, earthquake engineering, site development and planning, and environmental engineering. Thus, you can be a lot of things following an education in civil engineering.
The real question is where you should pursue civil engineering from. The answer depends on an array of factors; however, our focus will be on the ranking part today. There are many international favorites for those interested in civil engineering, and I am going to list a few of them in this article.

Here are the 5 best universities to pursue civil engineering:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
   To boost the pace of industrialization in the United States of America, MIT was founded in the year 1861. Ever since its foundation, it has been consistently regarded as a top-tier institution in the field of science, engineering, and entrepreneurship. Presently, there are 5 schools in the institute, namely Science, Engineering, Architecture and Planning, Management, and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Those interested in advanced studies can apply to graduate courses offered in their respective departments. Also, being a highly research-oriented university, it participates in many collaborations from time to time.
2. Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands
   In the world of science and engineering, the name of TU Delft remains indispensable. The largest public technical university in the country is also among the top 15 best places for courses in engineering, so your decision to study civil engineering here would be an excellent one. Today, there are about 8 faculties coupled with quite a few research institutes; these faculties include those of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Architecture and the Built Environment, Industrial Design Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Technology, Policy and Management. Its research institutes include the Research Institute for the Built Environment and the Reactor Institute Delft.
3. University of Cambridge, UK
   Pride and joy of the English-speaking world, the University of Cambridge enjoys a reputation unlike most in the global higher education order. Very much like the University of Oxford, it has been organized into 31 semi-autonomous colleges and more than a hundred academic departments. Due to the many shared features, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge are often called Oxbridge. Aside from the sheer number of faculties and departments, there is voluminous research output evident from the number of publications every year and international collaborations with notable research institutes.
4. The University of California, Berkeley (UCB), USA
   The first member of the University of California System, UCB is a public land-grant research university founded in 1868. As part of its academic organization, there are about 14 colleges and schools and more than 300-degree programs. Not just this, the university has established many leading research centers and institutes, such as the Spaces Sciences Laboratory and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. In terms of overall research activities, it is one of the best performing universities globally and has produced ground-breaking research worth billions of dollars.
5. Imperial College London, UK
   Properly called the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, the Imperial College London is a globally acclaimed public research university. It was founded following the merger of several schools and colleges in 1907. The university’s primary focus is on science, technology, business, and medicine. Aside from well-rounded faculties, it hosts several international research institutes and centers such as Energy Futures Laboratory, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Data Science Institute, and the Institute for Global Health Innovation. Two academic centers, namely the Centre for Academic English and the Centre for Languages, Culture, and Communication, are also part of the organization.

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