Course summary
This unique one-year, full-time Master's programme focuses on industry-relevant skills, ensuring you graduate ready to make an immediate impact. You'll be able to specialise your learning through one of three curated pathways:
- Asset Management and Digital Transformation: specialise in managing civil infrastructure assets and data, utilizing systems-level thinking alongside mathematical and sustainable approaches.
- Composite Materials and Sustainable Design: develop expertise in innovative materials such as fibre-reinforced polymers, discover structural retrofitting, and learn how to integrate sustainability criteria into your design process.
- Earthquake Engineering: specialise in structural reliability, soil-structure interaction and natural disaster risk management making an impact on the efficient design of the built environment, the mitigation of seismic loss and the protection of human life.
- The Bristol Composites Institute Lab.
- The Heavy and Light Structures Lab.
- The Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction Lab.
- Guest lecturers from industry and prominent academic institutions, offering real-world insights.
- An interesting field trip designed to enhance your understanding of construction procedures and manufacturing workflows.
- A summer design project that simulates real-life conditions within an engineering company, allowing you to collaborate with academic and industrial supervisors and to develop leadership and communication skills essential for your career.
Assessment method
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/media/postgraduate/admissions-statements/2026/msc-structural-engineering.pdf
Entry requirements
You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in: * Aerospace Engineering * Applied Physics * Architectural Engineering * Building Surveying * Civil/Structural Engineering * Engineering Design * Geology * Information Engineering * Mathematics/Applied Mathematics * Mechanical Engineering. Other Engineering subjects will also be considered on a case-by-case basis. We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree. We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement. If your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have additional qualifications, please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé ) when you apply, showing: * a relevant postgraduate qualification. See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/international/countries/
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £15900 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £15900 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £15900 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £15900 | Year 1 |
| EU | £34900 | Year 1 |
| International | £34900 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Fees are subject to an annual review. For programmes that last longer than one year, please budget for up to an 8% increase in fees each year.
For more information, please view the programme page on our website.
Provider information
University of Bristol
Beacon House
Queen’s Road
Bristol
BS8 1QU