Civil engineers play a crucial role in developing infrastructure and supporting human development in a sustainable manner. Issues such as soil and water contamination, lack of access to safe drinking water, and unsustainable use of resources remain major obstacles to global sustainability, while the growing threat of climate change and problems arising from rapid urbanization pose new challenges.
Infrastructure and environmental engineering is a highly interdisciplinary field that includes everything from traffic and road engineering, urban metabolism, and water system engineering, to geotechnical and environmental engineering. Infrastructure investment also constitutes a considerable part of the global economy. Safe, economical, and sustainable development is therefore heavily reliant on the continued progress of civil engineering technologies.
The program is a response to this enormous societal need for qualified competence in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of infrastructure systems. It promotes the personal development of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to start working as a professional engineer in the field.
This program will prepare you for a long-lasting professional career in the field, with a comprehensive focus on skills including planning, construction, and operation processes, the ability to work methodically and in teams, lead project work and present results, to critically review and develop technical solutions, and to use modern engineering tools. You will make use of real-case scenarios provided by industry and society, benefiting from excellent links to national and international industrial partners.
Core subjects covered in the program include sustainable environment and  water system engineering , as well as courses on topics such as wastewater, traffic and road engineering, urban metabolism, geotechnics, and more.
Sweden is surrounded by one of the planet’s most sensitive ocean environments, with a fragile and complex landmass, resulting in some of the strictest environmental and building regulations in the world. Consequently, Sweden enjoys an excellent reputation within the field of infrastructure and environmental engineering, and this program offers an internationally unique profile. We are closely linked to several large, active research projects and the majority of our faculty are highly involved in research as well.
The integration of professional experience into education is an important part of the program and after graduation, you will be very well-prepared to enter the market in a professional role.
Career
Civil and environmental engineers with a strong background in both infrastructure and environmental engineering are sought after and will be so also in the future, both nationally and internationally. Our previous students have had a high level of employability within companies like; Sweco, Skanska, NCC, Veolia, Göteborg kretslopp och vatten, and Trafikverket, to name a few.
In Sweden, many large infrastructure projects are planned, including road and railways construction, traffic planning, upgrading of drinking water and wastewater plants, and remediation of contaminated sites. Other fields of work are; the protection of soil and water resources, the foundation of structures and buildings, tunnels, and the design of drinking water and wastewater treatment plants, and distribution systems.
Adaptation to climate change and urbanization will increase the need even further. Internationally there is an immense continued need for competent engineers in this sector, both within and perhaps even more outside Europe.
With a Master’s degree in Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering, you will usually work with design, maintenance, construction, and research in the field of civil and environmental engineering. Others may attain supervisory or administrative positions, especially on an international level.
General entry requirements
A Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Technology, or Architecture
To fulfill the general entry requirement for a Master's program at Chalmers (at advanced level/the second cycle), the prospective student must hold a degree that is equivalent to a Swedish Bachelor's degree (minimum 3 years, 180 Swedish higher education credits) in either Science, Engineering, Technology or Architecture.
All applicants must document their formal academic qualifications to prove their eligibility. Only documentation from internationally recognized universities will be approved by the Swedish Council for Higher Education which manages the website universityadmissions.se.
If an applicant is also a holder of a second degree such as a Master's degree, that may be to fulfill specific (course) requirements, it cannot be used to fulfill the general entry requirement on its own.
In your final year of Bachelor's Studies
Students in their last year of studies who don't yet have documentation of their soon-to-be-completed degree can be accepted.
Restrictions
Degrees that are constructed on one another cannot consist of the same course
Applicants who fulfill the general entry requirements for the second cycle (master’s level) programs and eventually specific entry requirements can be admitted to a master’s program. Applicants cannot be evaluated as unqualified in the qualifying academic merits which include courses from the program’s plan in those programs that they have applied for if that occurs.
Courses included in an earned first cycle degree (bachelor’s level) or professional qualification of at least 180 cr. (180hp) or the equivalent foreign qualification that are prerequisites for master’s qualifications may not be included in the higher qualifications. This also applies to prerequisite courses for master’s programs, regardless of whether they are included in the underlying qualification. *
*) Local Qualifications Framework for Chalmers University of Technology - first and second cycle qualifications.
Restrictions for Citizens from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)
Chalmers cannot admit applicants with citizenship of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea only to any program or course, due to the Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1509 of 30 August 2017 concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and repealing Regulation (EC) 329/2007.
For applicants with double citizenship of which one is of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the other of another country, the citizenship of the other country has precedence in this respect.​
