Civil Engineering (BA)

What is the program all about?

The Civil Engineering program in Denmark is a program with a duration of 3.5 years (or 7 semesters), and after each semester you will have to defend a semester project in a group of 3-5 people. The education system in Denmark requires a lot of work after lectures, especially for a specialty like this. The lectures will give you the valuable 20-30% of the knowledge. To upgrade to 100% is your own responsibility. This means that to succeed is required full dedication and personal motivation at all times. The program is extremely practical, which means that all projects and exercises focus on working in groups and on real problems in the construction sector. In the first four semesters you will have the opportunity to try a few of the offered three subspecialties.

1. Road engineering – planning, calculation and construction of suburban, urban roads and motorways, according to the Danish regulations.
2. Structural engineering – calculation of reinforced concrete, steel and timber buildings according to the Danish Euro codes. Construction management and Danish performance contracts are also part of this sub-specialty.
3. Energy design – study of passive houses, calculation of insulation, access of sunlight in buildings, heating, cooling and ventilation.

Throughout the fifth semester you will have an internship in a company of your choice, where you will work with real projects. During the sixth semester you will be able to choose the courses that will best suit your professional orientation. In the seventh semester, you will work on your bachelor’s project, which you will have to defend at the end of your studies.

Admission requirements and needed documents.

For your documents to be reviewed, you must have:
English – level B.
Mathematics – level А.
Physics – level B.
Chemistry – level C.

1. Motivation letter.
2. Diploma for completed secondary education or academic transcript (for the last 3 years with grades and number of hours of teaching).
3. Verification form.
4. Copy of your ID card or passport.
5. English certificate.

What can you continue studying or where can you work?

After completing the bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in Denmark, you will have the opportunity to pursue various master’s degrees at Aalborg University and Danish Technical University. You can review all master’s degrees in Denmark. If you want to continue your education outside of Denmark, this is also possible. Contact us to avoid mistakes.

You will have the opportunity to work on bridge and road construction, port construction, industrial construction, residential or geothermal and solar heating.
Most graduates are employed by contractors, engineering companies or so-called turnkey companies in Denmark or abroad. Many of them also work for the public sector.

Personal opinion and practical experience

In the very beginning it was extremely difficult for me to catch up with physics and mathematics as I had graduated from a language school. But nothing is impossible.

Every semester are organized 2 visits to companies that actually cover every possible job in the field! In 3.5 years. we visited the Steel Factory (Give Steel), the LEGO Sustainability Department, the Rockwool manufacturing process, a highway construction site (Vejdirektoratet), the Horsens multi-storey building site, the COWI offices (one of the largest engineering companies), a sand pit for  raw materials extraction, a construction site at the port of Copenhagen, fairs and conferences and a lot more.

As I built my professional orientation towards structural engineering in the second semester, I had the opportunity to focus and develop on the subjects that gave me the most pleasure. In the fourth semester, I was quite familiar with a specific structural program that helped me find an internship in a company that manufactures and builds steel structures in Scandinavia. Danish language plays a big role in whether you will find a job in the construction sector in Denmark, so I recommend that you start courses as soon as possible.

Boris Minkov