Master of Civil Engineering

Master of Civil Engineering is a Masters program taught at University of Sharjah, UAE. Intake: Fall and Spring. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (2-4 Years) options.

The Master of Science in Civil Engineering at the University of Sharjah is a graduate program in Civil Engineering. Students study planning, analysis, design, and problem solving for projects that include buildings, bridges, roads, water supply systems, dams, canals, sanitation systems, environmental protection systems, and risk management systems. The program includes two specialization streams: Structural Systems Engineering and Infrastructure Systems Engineering, each with concentration areas.

The program follows a courses and thesis structure. It requires 33 credit hours: 24 credit hours of coursework plus 9 credit hours for a Master Thesis. Students take a Graduate Seminar course (0 credit hours) and complete general elective courses and technical elective courses. The thesis is written in English, and students must have successfully passed 50% of the courses to be eligible to register for the thesis. A student must publish a minimum of one research paper related to the master’s thesis in a peer-reviewed journal.

Modules

• Graduate Seminar
• Master Thesis
• Research Design
• Optimization Techniques in Civil Engineering
• Applied Engineering Statistics
• Finite Element Methods
• Advanced Numerical Methods
• Environmental Impact Assessment and Risk Analysis

The minimum requirements for admission in Master of Civil Engineering at University of Sharjah for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by University of Sharjah.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by University of Sharjah as pre-requiste for admission in Master of Civil Engineering.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

• Must hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent from a recognized university with a CGPA of 3.00 out of 4.00 or above.
• Students with a GPA of 2.50 to 2.99 may be admitted conditionally provided that they register for 6-9 credit hours in the first semester of their study and obtain an average grade of "B". Otherwise, they will be expelled from the program.
• The undergraduate degree must be obtained in a major that qualifies the student to study the master's program, particularly from the Civil and Environmental Engineering program. Students holding degrees in other majors may be admitted, subject to the conditional approval of the department graduate committee and remedial undergraduate-level courses
• Students in programs taught in English must obtain 550 on the TOEFL exam or 6 on IELTS.
• Applicants shall satisfy all the other admission requirements stipulated by the College of Graduate Studies and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

TOEFL 550 or IELTS 6

Please check detail of study units at https://www.sharjah.ac.ae/en/Academics/Degree/Graduate/Master-of-Civil-Engineering

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