Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering College of Engineering Northeastern University

Northeastern's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Northeastern University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers MS (part- and full-time) and PhD programs in Civil Engineering. As a leader in the field, the department has over 100 years of history and tradition in teaching and research and is anchored by several multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional centers and initiatives, including the Versatile Onboard Traffic Embedded Roaming Sensors center funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This institute works to develop new sensor technologies and health monitoring strategies that provide up-to-date information about the state of roadways and bridges.

At the graduate level, students are provided with opportunities to work at and advance the state-of-the-art in civil engineering while gaining superior knowledge of the field. Northeastern offers significant research opportunities across all fields of civil and environmental engineering, including fields such as construction management, environmental engineering, geotechnical/geoenvironmental engineering, structural engineering, and transportation engineering.

Northeastern's student chapters are vibrant, its faculty is expanding, and its laboratory facilities are growing. The university's location in Boston provides an intellectual community by the sea and home to the Big Dig, a landmark civil engineering achievement. Northeastern is renowned in experiential education; within this context, the university's globally-minded programs are preeminent in creating engineering solutions to better civil infrastructure and environment.

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More information is available regarding graduate applications and graduate studies at Northeastern University.

• Degrees Offered
• Major Degree Levels Offered
• Master of Science (MS)
  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

• Degrees Awarded
• Master's Degrees 23
• Doctoral Degrees 3
• First Professional Degrees Not reported
• Other Advanced Degrees Not reported
• * Shows the number of degrees awarded for the last academic year that data was reported.

• Earning Your Degree
• Part-time study available? Yes
• Evening/weekend programs available? No
• Distance learning programs available? No
• Terminal master's degree available? No

• Degree Requirements
• Master's Degrees Optional
• Doctoral Degrees Required and departmental qualifying exam
• First Professional Degrees Not reported
• Other Advanced Degrees Not reported

• Acceptance Rate
• Applied286
• Accepted192
• Acceptance Rate67%
• Enrolled56
• Applying
• Application Fee - Domestic $50
• Application Fee - International $50
• Electronic applications accepted? Yes
• Applications processed on a rolling basis? Yes
• Application Deadlines
• Type Domestic International Priority Date
• Fall deadline January 15th January 15th Yes
• Winter deadline Not Reported Not Reported Not Reported
• Spring deadline Not Reported Not Reported Not Reported
• Entrance Requirements
• Master's DegreesGRE General Test
• Doctoral's DegreesGRE General Test
• First-Professional's DegreesNot Reported
• Other Advanced DegreesNot Reported
• International DegreesTOEFL required, 550 paper based, TOEFL iBT

• Tuition & Fees
• In-state tuition *Not Reported
• Out-of-state tuition *Not Reported
• International student tuitionNot Reported
• * Tuition for full-time graduate student per academic year
• Fees
• Per-academic year feesNot Reported
• Per-term feesNot Reported
• One-time feeNot Reported
• * Fees for full-time graduate students
• Financial Support
• Financial award applicants must submitFAFSA
• Application deadlines for financial awardsJanuary 15
• Types of financial support availableResearch Assitantships, Teaching Assistantships, Tuition Waivers, Career or Field-Related Internships, Federal Work-Study, Financial Support for Part-time Students, Scholarship and/or loans, Graduate Assistantships

• Gender
• Total Graduate Students135
• Female Percentage41%
• Male Percentage59%
• Participation
• Total Graduate Students135
• Part-time Percentage28%
• Full-time Percentage72%
• Ethnicity
• Hispanic / LatinoNot Reported
• Black / African AmericanNot Reported
• White / CaucasianNot Reported
• American Indian / Alaskan NativeNot Reported
• AsianNot Reported
• Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific IslanderNot Reported
• Two or more racesNot Reported
• UnknownNot Reported

• Existing Research
• Focus of faculty researchEarthquake engineering, geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, environmental engineering
• Externally sponsored research expenditures last yearNot Reported