Engineering - Civil & Infrastructure Engineering - Degree Apprenticeship

Overview

This course is unique in Ireland for its breadth across a range of infrastructure disciplines such as water, waste, structures, highways, road safety, project management and sustainability, with strong emphases on design. It allows apprentices to gain credit from the 4 days a week at work through filling in IPD online, combining with the academic MSc Civil and Infrastructure Degree studied on a one day per week basis. The knowledge and understanding gained from the degree covers key areas of civil and infrastructure engineering and meets the needs of graduates seeking chartered status. It has significant input from the expertise of a blend of current practitioners and research-led academics, with inter-disciplinary teaching in design and sustainability modules; all of this is integrated and delivered within the principles and practice of sustainable development. It meets the needs of those with an accredited BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering Degree (Further learning) in fulfilling all the additional academic requirements for Chartered Status. It also is a technical masters allowing those with an accredited IEng level degree access to the individual route to Chartered membership of 5 professional bodies: ICE, IStructE, CIHT, IHE and the Permanent Way Institution. Apprentices need 7 of the 9 Professional Attributes signed off over the 3 years of the degree to allow them to graduate. They work with their employer on this at the same time as their academic study.

Year one

Project Management

Integrated Design studies A

Infrastructure Design Studies

Waste Systems



Year two

Structural Design for Infrastructure

Sustainable Development

Highway Asset Management



Optional:

Advanced Materials, Structures and Geotechnics

Utilities and Water Engineering



Year three

Optional:

Research Dissertation (Civil and Infrastructure)

Dissertation

Applicants should either possess an Honours degree or equivalent qualification, in a Civil Engineering or similar area from a recognised institution or an equivalent professional qualification, for MSc entry. Entry to the PgDip may be from a non-honours degree for those seeking chartered status via ‘technically focused MSc’. Exceptionally, we will admit students with non-engineering related qualifications provided they have significant industry /professional experience. In exceptional circumstances, where an individual has substantial and significant experiential learning, a portfolio of written evidence demonstrating the meeting of the graduate qualities (including subject-specific outcomes, specified by the Course Committee) may be considered as an alternative entrance route. Evidence used to demonstrate graduate qualities may not be used for exemption against modules within the programme.



English Language Requirements

English language requirements for international applicants. The minimum requirement for this course is Academic IELTS 6.0 with no band score less than 5.5. Trinity ISE: Pass at level III also meets this requirement for Tier 4 visa purposes.



Ulster recognises a number of other English language tests and comparable IELTS equivalent scores.



• For English language requirements go to: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/global/apply/english-language-requirements



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Exemptions and transferability

Exemption can be obtained for up to 60 credits of study by using industrial output experience by application of the University policy on 'Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning'. Students may transfer out to similar Masters programmes. Students may transfer into this master's degree by application of the University policy on 'Accreditation of Prior Learning'

When to Apply

You should apply for a Degree Apprenticeship programme once your Apprenticeship employer has made you an offer of employment.



For details of all available job opportunities, please complete the enquiry form below and our course team will get in touch.



To be eligible to apply for a Degree Apprenticeship, you and your employer must meet all of the scheme’s eligibility criteria.



You must also meet the minimum academic entry requirements for the course you intend to study.

Part-time study is over 3 years in which Years 1 and 2 each have 2 semesters requiring 1 day/week attendance in each semester, and Year 3 studies involve the Dissertation in which attendance is agreed with its Supervisor.

Start Date: September 2026.

Careers and Opportunities

Graduate employment may be found in public or private sectors in built environment disciplines or careers such as civil engineering, transportation, public health or environmental engineering, dealing with many key activities such as utilities, construction, design, infrastructure, sustainability, environmental and traffic impacts and waste management. Skills developed will include rational thinking, integrative studies and recent knowledge of current issues such as legislative structures, sustainability challenges, design practices and research-led knowledge. Recent graduates have found professional employment in the UK Water Sector, Australian engineering industries, Scottish Local Authorities, Irish County Councils and in Research posts.