Especially in today’s world, progress means designing longer-lasting, more sustainable solutions that preserve the environment and transform infrastructure and building design. If you look to lead these projects, realize your aspirations with Missouri University of Science and Technology’s (Missouri S&T) online master of science in civil engineering.

Develop a specialization across civil engineering’s wide spectrum of disciplines while honing your leadership skills. Flexibility shapes both the fully online delivery and format: candidates tailor their degree program to their career and educational goals.

Interested in driving sustainable development in your field? Apply to the program directly, or explore advanced subject matters in one of Missouri S&T’s graduate certificate programs before transferring your credits. Related certificate programs include contemporary structural engineering, geoenvironmental engineering, geotechnical earthquake engineering, infrastructure renewal and project engineering and construction management. 

Missouri S&T’s Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering follows one mission: we aim to change the world. This factor shapes the online master’s in civil engineering: graduates learn to plan, develop and design novel and sustainable infrastructure that improves both human and natural environments. Courses stress scientific discovery and engineering innovation through the latest technologies and sustainable development principles.

At the same time, the department’s courses and faculty demonstrate civil engineering’s many subdisciplines and applications. Graduate students are encouraged to chart their own path toward this goal through architectural, construction, environmental, geotechnical, materials, structural and water resources engineering. In developing a customized plan of study, you’ll:

• Strengthen and upgrade your foundation in civil engineering principles
• Prepare to stay ahead in the dynamic world of civil engineering
• Develop a specialization in a subdiscipline while growing as a leader
• Gain the skills to oversee projects from concept to completion
• Become a more strategic problem-solver prepared to propose solutions to existing environmental challenges without losing sight of economic and safety factors
• Explore the design process in greater detail to develop more sustainable, longer-lasting structures and upgrade existing facilities
• Be taught by faculty members who influence the civil engineering field through original research in infrastructure materials, natural hazard mitigation, smart cities, blast and impact protection for infrastructures, low-energy wastewater treatment, green infrastructure, concrete durability and infrastructure climate adaptation

Admission Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline from an accredited program

Undergraduate GPA ≥ 3.0

International requirement: TOEFL ≥ 80 iBT or IELTS ≥ 6.5

Students with non-civil engineering degrees may be required to take additional courses to prepare them for their advanced studies. In some cases, students with non-engineering degrees (e.g., chemistry, physics, geology, or biology) will be considered if deficiencies in mathematics, science and engineering are remedied.

Please contact the academic department for details on the distance doctorate of engineering program. Email care@mst.edu or call 573-341-4461.