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‘QUT offers great teaching and connection to industry. I believe that theoretical knowledge as well as practical competence will be vital for any future employment. My advice to prospective students in Australia or overseas would be to just do it - your time at QUT will be amazing and you will leave with the skills and confidence to succeed.’
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'The work integrated learning we undertake as part of the course and my project and supervisors, have helped me realise what I want out of my career because they introduced me to new aspects of the civil engineering field that I was yet to explore. I work as a student assistant at an engineering company in Brisbane in the civil structures department, where I undertake work for civil projects, for example carrying out calculations on retaining walls or noise barrier walls. The most valuable experience for me is understanding the professional work culture in Australia, which I really enjoy.'
Master of Professional Engineering, International Merit Scholarship recipient
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‘QUT offers great teaching and connection to industry. I believe that theoretical knowledge as well as practical competence will be vital for any future employment. My advice to prospective students in Australia or overseas would be to just do it - your time at QUT will be amazing and you will leave with the skills and confidence to succeed.’
Highlights
- Ideal for practising engineers who want advanced, cutting-edge knowledge and skills in a chosen engineering field or want to move into an engineering management role.
- Lead and contribute to complex projects.
- Respond rapidly and effectively to current and emerging local and global challenges.
- Use evidence-based practice to imagine and realise change using management strategies, advanced design, collaborative decision-making and innovation.
- The civil major is provisionally accredited with Engineers Australia.
Highlights
- Ideal for practising engineers who want advanced, cutting-edge knowledge and skills in a chosen engineering field or want to move into an engineering management role.
- Lead and contribute to complex projects.
- Respond rapidly and effectively to current and emerging local and global challenges.
- Use evidence-based practice to imagine and realise change using management strategies, advanced design, collaborative decision-making and innovation.
- The civil major is provisionally accredited with Engineers Australia.
Why choose this course?
This course enhances the knowledge, practice and professional employability skills of engineers in specific discipline areas at an advanced level. Explore an integrated mix of specialist discipline complexity and evidence-based practice with future-focused professional skills development in a connected learning environment.
You can choose from three majors as part of this main study area:
Civil engineering
The civil engineering major provides advanced studies in the broad spectrum of civil engineering disciplines, expanding the knowledge gained in undergraduate degrees and applying it to complex problems. The course will prepare graduates to deal with future challenges in sustainability of civil infrastructure with respect to global warming and population growth.
Civil and construction
The civil and construction major provides advanced studies in design, building and maintenance of civil infrastructures, while expanding the knowledge gained in undergraduate degrees. Explore the sustainability of buildings, roads and utility networks in the context of future challenges to get prepared for a changing world.
Civil with management
The civil with management major provides advanced studies in the broad spectrum of civil engineering disciplines, expanding the knowledge gained in undergraduate degrees and complementing them with relevant management theory and practice in preparation to solve complex tasks in managing civil engineering projects.
This course is suitable for practising engineers who want to change engineering disciplines and attain postgraduate qualifications.
Why choose this course?
Enhance your professional engineering knowledge, practice and professional employability skills at an advanced level. Explore an integrated mix of complex topics tailored to your specialist discipline and develop future-focused professional skills in a connected learning environment.
The civil engineering major provides advanced studies in the broad spectrum of civil engineering disciplines, expanding the knowledge gained in undergraduate degrees and applying it to complex problems. The course will prepare graduates to deal with future challenges in sustainability of civil infrastructure with respect to global warming and population growth.
This course is suitable for practising engineers who want to change engineering disciplines and attain postgraduate qualifications.
Other majors include Civil and Construction, and Civil with Management.
Real-world learning
Through your studies, you will learn how to:
- apply advanced and specialist knowledge, concepts and practices in engineering design, analysis management and sustainability
- critically analyse and evaluate complex engineering problems to achieve, research informed solutions
- apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage an engineering project
- communicate complex information effectively and succinctly, presenting high level reports, arguments and justifications in oral, written and visual forms to professional and non-specialist audiences
- organise and manage time, tasks and projects independently and collaboratively, demonstrating the values and principles that shape engineering decision making and professional accountability.
You will be engaged with the demands, complexities, tools and contemporary practices of authentic engineering environments. You will develop and shape contemporary authentic professional skills for immediate application in workplace contexts.
You will undertake your studies through a range of learning practices, including industry-led case studies, project-based learning. Your capstone learning experience is a workplace-based or authentic two-semester project staged via a series of developmental assessments. This is supported through preparation for a simulated international engineering conference (peer-reviewed poster presentation and paper).
Real-world learning
Through your studies, you will learn how to apply advanced and specialist knowledge, concepts and practices in engineering design, analysis management and sustainability. You will learn to critically analyse and evaluate complex engineering problems, and apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage an engineering project. Engage with the demands, complexities, tools and contemporary practices of authentic engineering environments.
Upon graduating, you will be able to communicate complex information effectively and succinctly by presenting high level reports, arguments and justifications to professional and non-specialist audiences. You will also be able to organise and manage time, tasks and projects independently and collaboratively in a professional engineering setting.
You will undertake your studies through a range of learning practices, including industry-led case studies, project-based learning. Your capstone learning experience is a workplace-based or authentic two-semester project staged via a series of developmental assessments. This is supported through preparation for a simulated international engineering conference (peer-reviewed poster presentation and paper).
Explore this course
Master skills in selected engineering disciplines and the interaction of those disciplines with this two-year course for professional engineers. Enhance your skills in dealing with more complex engineering problems and interactions between engineering technical domains and the broader context in which they exist.
Gain the post-professional knowledge and skills to equip you with the abilities to become a leader in your chosen engineering field. The program offers both theoretical understanding and practical applications of advanced professional engineering practices, with a focus on sustainable, ethical and managerial abilities.
This course is provisionally accredited with Engineers Australia. Professional accreditation allows graduates to work as a professional engineer in countries that are signatories of the Washington Accord.
Work Integrated Learning
During this course you are required to complete 60 days (equivalent to 450 hours) of approved work experience.
Careers and outcomes
You will graduate with advanced cutting-edge knowledge and skills in a chosen engineering field or engineering management role. You will:
- be able to lead and contribute to complex projects and respond rapidly and effectively to current and emerging local and global challenges
- have research capacity for evidence-based practice, to imagine and realise change using management strategies, advanced design, collaborative decision-making and innovation in ethical and sustainable ways as appropriate to your role
- be strategic in the use of digital technologies
- be an effective collaborator and communicator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts with knowledge of and respect for diverse cultural perspectives
- be able to apply integrated computer-based approaches to monitor and manage internal and external resources in an organisation and implement a range of strategies and practices to support organisational objectives such as competitive advantages, innovation, sharing lessons learned, integration and continuous improvement
- be able to become a specialist engineering manager within your chosen professional field, in particular, a leader and manager of engineering processes
- be capable of undertaking management level roles in operations management, quality control management, logistics, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and other specialised engineering fields.
Civil engineers can be employed by many different industries as either ongoing engineers in an organisation, or as consultants in engineering firms. These firms work alongside organisations from a wide array of industries like transportation, mining, and construction. These clients are typically spread out from metropolitan to regional areas. At times, your office will be based at the client's site for the duration of the project, where you'll be working with interdisciplinary teams.
Professional recognition
This course has provisional accreditation with Engineers Australia. Accredited courses are recognised internationally in the engineering profession, giving QUT graduates more career opportunities overseas.
Possible careers
- Civil engineer
- Construction project manager
- Consultant
- Engineer
- Engineering technologist
- Engineering manager
- Project developer
- Project manager
To graduate with a Master of Professional Engineering you must complete 192 credit points of course units consisting of:
- 84 credit points of core units, including:
- advanced research skills and research-based project units
- two professional practice units
- an advanced discipline unit
- an engineering design unit
- 108 credit points of discipline units from your specialisation, to be selected from a list of options.
Option units provide added depth and breadth in your chosen discipline area. You should select different unit if you have completed a similar or equivalent unit in your previous studies.
You are also required to undertake 60 days of approved work experience in the engineering environment as part of your Work Integrated Learning.
To graduate with a Master of Professional Engineering you must complete 192 credit points of course units consisting of:
- 84 credit points of core units, including:
- advanced research skills and research-based project units
- two professional practice units
- an advanced discipline unit
- an engineering design unit
- 108 credit points of discipline units from your specialisation, to be selected from a list of options.
Option units provide added depth and breadth in your chosen discipline area. You should select different unit if you have completed a similar or equivalent unit in your previous studies.
You are also required to undertake 60 days of approved work experience in the engineering environment as part of your Work Integrated Learning.
- Course code
- EN55
- CRICOS code
- 096754G
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- Gardens Point
- 1.5 - 2 years full-time
- 3 - 4 years part-time
- 1.5 - 2 years full-time
- February and July
- February and July
Entry requirements
1.5-year program
You must have a completed four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree in the civil engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.00 (on QUT’s 7-point scale).
2-year program
You must have a completed:
- three-year full-time (or equivalent) engineering or engineering technology in a civil engineering discipline with a minimum 4.00 (on QUT’s 7-point scale); or
- four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree in the civil engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.00 (on QUT’s 7-point scale).
Minimum academic requirements
Entry requirements
1.5-year program
You must have a completed recognised four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree in a civil engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.00 (on QUT’s 7-point scale).
2-year program
You must have a completed recognised:
- three-year full-time (or equivalent) engineering or engineering technology in a civil engineering discipline with a minimum 4.00 (on QUT’s 7-point scale); or
- four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree in a civil engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.00 (on QUT’s 7-point scale).
Minimum English language requirements
Select the country where you completed your studies to see a guide on meeting QUT’s English language requirements.
Your scores and prior qualifications in English-speaking countries are considered. Approved English-speaking countries are Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, United States of America and Wales.
If your country or qualification is not listed, you can still apply for this course and we will assess your eligibility.
We accept English language proficiency scores from the following tests undertaken in a secure test centre. Tests must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement.
| English Test | Overall | Listening | Reading | Writing | Speaking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IELTS Academic / One Skill Retake | 6.5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
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Cambridge English Score
You must share your results with QUT through the Candidate Results Online website. |
176 | 169 | 169 | 169 | 169 |
| PTE Academic | 58 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| TOEFL iBT | 79 | 16 | 16 | 21 | 18 |
Don't have the English language score you need? We can help!
We offer English language programs to improve your English and help you gain entry to this course.
When you apply for this course, we will recommend which English course you should enrol in.
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2025 fees
2025: $34,000 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2025 fees
2025: $45,300 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2024 fees
2024: $32,900 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2024 fees
2024: $42,100 per year full-time (96 credit points)
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
FEE-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a FEE-HELP loan.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.
Equity scholarships scheme
A scholarship for low-income students studying in any faculty.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Struggling financially
International Merit Scholarship
A high achievement scholarship for future international undergraduate and postgraduate students.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
QUT Real World International Scholarship
A scholarship to cover tuition fees, with eligibility based on your prior academic achievements.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
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