Civil Engineering

Choose from a variety of minors or concentrations to personalize your educational experience.

Visit the Catalog to view additional details about civil engineering, including degree requirements, course descriptions and a sample plan of study.

• Personalize Your Experience: Compliment your major or connect with your passion by adding a minor or concentration to your degree program. The UD School of Engineering offers more than 30 minors, or you can choose a minor outside of engineering.
• Engineering Student Organizations: The UD School of Engineering is home to 30+ student organizations, many of which build projects and compete. Examples include the American Society of Civil Engineers Steel Bridge Team, the Concrete Canoe Team and the Construction Estimating Team.
• Get Involved With Faculty Research: We're big enough to have significant research programs, but small enough to involve you in meaningful undergraduate research with our faculty as early as your first year.
• Capstone Project: Your academic journey culminates in a senior year capstone course, where you and your team will design a large-scale civil engineering system using knowledge from all areas of civil engineering — environmental, geotechnical, structural, transportation, and water resources engineering.
• ABET Accredited: Our accreditation by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the General Criteria and the Program Criteria for Civil Engineering and Similarly Named Engineering Programs. ABET accreditation assures confidence that a collegiate program has met standards essential to prepare graduates to enter critical STEM fields in the global workforce.

Ready to take the next step? Explore admission options or schedule an academic visit to learn more about civil engineering at UD.

Additional Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Programs

• Construction Engineering and Management (Minor)
• Engineering Mechanics (Minor)
• Environmental Engineering (Minor)
• Geotechnical Engineering (Minor)
• Structural Engineering (Minor)
• Transportation Engineering (Minor)
• Water Resources Engineering (Minor)
• Civil Engineering (M.S.)
• Engineering Mechanics (M.S.)

Related Programs

• Electrical Engineering (M.S.)
• Engineering Mechanics (M.S.)
• Mechanical Engineering (M.S.)
• Systems Engineering and Management (D.E.)
• Foundations of Engineering Management (Graduate Certificate)
• Systems Engineering Management (Graduate Certificate)
• Discover Engineering (Undecided)
• Discover Engineering Technology (Undecided)

Rooted in our Catholic, Marianist traditions, the University of Dayton is dedicated to being transparent and ensuring student success. And with high graduation and success rates, UD is an excellent value.

To help you cover your costs, a variety of scholarships, grants, loans and part-time work study are available. The University also accepts transfer credits and credit by exam for undergraduates, giving you more flexibility to add a double major or minor or participate in a transformational experience like study abroad or co-op.