Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)

Study Civil Engineering

As a civil engineer, you take on a high level of social responsibility designing buildings, cities and infrastructure. You lay the technical foundations for coexistence in civil society and the protection of our natural environment.

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Content

What is the Civil Engineering degree programme about?

The focus of the Bachelor's in Civil Engineering is a practice-oriented academic education. Theoretical knowledge is put into practice during the degree through close cooperation with construction companies, planning engineering offices, building associations and authorities, giving our students a comprehensive insight into the industry. The involvement of practical partners in projects and final theses or in the course of dual studies rounds off this practice-oriented degree.

Labor für Konstruktiven Ingenieurbau
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Strengths of the degree programme

Flexible content

Design your studies individually. In the Bachelor's in Civil Engineering you can choose content according to your own interests and skills.

Attractive excursions

Thanks to our well-connected lecturers, we are able to offer attractive excursions on a regular basis.

Collegial exchange between students and lecturers.

In your course, students and lecturers are equals. We offer a collegial working atmosphere in which you can unfold your full potential.

Career opportunities

What career prospects do I have as a civil engineer?

Civil engineers are in high demand on the job market and have a wide range of prospects after graduating with a bachelor's degree: from going straight into working life, to a master's degree or a doctorate.

    • Engineering offices: Design, planning, construction and calculation of structures of all kinds in structural and civil engineering. This includes residential and office buildings, halls, bridges, stadiums as well as tunnel structures and dams or waste disposal sites.
    • Construction industry: Project planning and project management, construction management, construction work and logistics, surveying, site supervision, controlling.
    • Public sector: planning, project management, supervision, construction management, maintenance, repair.
    • Services: Permit management, construction financing, real estate industry, maintenance, administration and management of buildings, facilities and infrastructure.
    • Resources: quarries and gravel works, cement and lime production, masonry blocks, mortar and concrete, insulation materials, pipes, poles, wood, glass, metal and plastic products, construction machinery.

  • Expand your knowledge in the postgraduate Master's in Civil Engineering and specialise in "Building and Infrastructure Rehabilitation" or "Digital Building Methods"


  • In the Faculty of Civil Engineering, we offer our graduates the opportunity to complete a doctorate in cooperation with a university. This is indispensable for an academic career, but specialised experts are also in demand in industry or engineering offices.


Structure and modules

How is the degree programme structured?

The degree programme is designed as a full-time course lasting seven semesters, six theoretical and one practical semester. After the 5th semester, specialisations can be chosen to focus on specific areas of civil engineering.

  • Modules:

    • Basic Mechanics
    • Mathematics for Civil Engineering
    • Building physics - Construction Chemistry
    • Geological Engineering and Soil Mechanics
    • Introduction to Digital Modelling
    • IT for Civil Engineering 
    • Construction Materials
    • Building Construction
    • Building Design

    In addition to the above-mentioned modules, a first Mandatory General Studies Elective Module (so-called AW-Module) must be completed in the 1st semester. Students can choose from a wide range of courses according to their personal interests:

    • Foreign languages
    • International programmes
    • Orientational knowledge (including cultural studies, natural sciences, economics)
    • Social and methodological competence (soft skills)
    • Technology and engineering sciences

    More details and a catalogue of the AW-modules and additional courses are available through the Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences and Cultural Studies.


  • Modules:

    • Surveying
    • Structural Analysis
    • Steel design, timber design, design of concrete and masonry structures
    • Geotechnics
    • Hydraulic Engineering
    • Road and Railway Design
    • Project Management, Sanitary Engineering, Sustainability in Construction, Construction Law, IT for Engineering

  • The practical semester comprises of an 18-week internship in a construction company or industrial company, with a construction service provider or building authority, or with an engineering or architect's office (full-time).


  • Here you may choose from four different specialisations or you may decide to study general civil engineering, shaping your studies according to your interests.


Specialisation

Which specialisations can I choose?

You may choose from four specialisations or the study of general civil engineering. If none of the four specialisations are selected, but rather the compulsory modules are combined freely, no specialisation is named on the degree certificate.

Construction

You may choose from compulsory modules in the areas of reinforced concrete design, steel design and finite element analysis.

Sustainable Infrastructure

Choose three compulsory modules from the areas of road construction, railway construction, sanitary engineering, hydraulic engineering, geotechnics, and the basics of traffic engineering and sustainable traffic planning.

Integrated construction project management

Here you may choose from compulsory modules in the areas of construction management, construction law and construction contract law.

Energy-efficient and sustainable construction

Choose three from: acoustics in civil engineering, sustainable maintenance of structures, energy advice for residential buildings, energy-efficient building concepts, resource efficient and circular construction and project work on sustainable structures.

No specialisation chosen

In addition to choosing a specialisation, you also have the option of freely combining the compulsory modules. No specialisation is included on the final certificate, however this has no effect on the quality or validity of the professional qualification.

Dual study programme

Engineering in practice - dual studies

You also have the option of studying the Bachelor's in Civil Engineering as part of a dual study programme.

Studies and organisational matters

So that everything runs smoothly

Where do the lectures and internships take place? What else do I need to know? You can find answers to these and other questions here.

  • Lectures are usually held on the main campus of the OTH Regensburg in the buildings of the Faculty of Civil Engineering.

    Buildings H and J
    Galgenbergstrasse 30
    93053 Regensburg

    When necessary, in the 3rd and 4th semesters some lectures take place at our second location, "Prüfeningerstrasse 58".


  • The Civil Engineering degree course (B.Eng.) was successfully re-accredited by the Internal Accreditation Commission on 19.02.2021, valid until 14.03.2027.


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