The Civil and Environmental Engineering master's program educates students across and within the fields of environmental health, environmental and water resources engineering, geosystems engineering, and structural engineering and mechanics.
We provide students with the best of both worlds: a student-centered experience at a top-notch research university. You'll join small classes and immerse yourself in cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research led by innovative faculty.
Through full and part-time options, students concentrate on areas like applied data science, environmental health, environmental and water resources engineering, geosystems engineering, and structural engineering and mechanics.
Master's degrees require a minimum of 30 credits and the fulfillment of at least 10 courses at the 100-level or above with grades of S (satisfactory) or at least a B-.
The School of Engineering's Graduate Cooperative Education (Co-Op) Program provides students with the opportunity to apply the theoretical principles they have learned in their coursework to real-world engineering projects. Gain up to six months of full-time work experience, build your resume, and develop a competitive advantage for post-graduation employment. Learn more about the Co-Op Program.
Civil and environmental engineers use their training to help society anticipate and respond to the emerging challenges of our changing world by focusing on natural and built systems, and by working at the intersection of infrastructure, the environment, and people.
Students graduate with advanced level expertise in a civil and environmental engineering specialty, some technical breadth in a related specialty, and familiarity with engineering tools used by the profession. Those students who wish to pursue doctoral education and research or a career in engineering practice within the private or public sector can opt to complete thesis research work in addition to the course work required for a master's degree.
Participate in networking opportunities through the weekly CEE Seminar and other annual networking events. Learn to address key societal issues related to how and where we live, work, and interact.
Admission into the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering generally requires course credits in science (biology, chemistry, physics), mathematics (through differential equations), and engineering sciences (fluid mechanics, statics).
Students admitted to the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering concentration are expected to have also completed at least one semester of college-level probability and statistics.
Students admitted for the Environmental Health concentration should also possess a suitable background in the biological sciences.
Students lacking one or more of these undergraduate preparations may be admitted on the condition that they complete the necessary coursework during their first year at Tufts. Credits resulting from the successful completion (i.e., a grade of B or better) of conditional coursework are required to obtain a degree but may not be used to satisfy graduate course requirements within the degree program.
We recognize that attending graduate school involves a significant financial investment. Our team is here to answer your questions about tuition rates and scholarship opportunities.
Please contact us at gradadmissions@tufts.edu.
Average Salary: $95K+
Projected Job Growth (2022-2032): 5%
*Sources: Average salary and projected job growth statistics are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook.
Research/Areas of Interest: geotechnical earthquake engineering, seismic hazard mapping, natural hazards
Research/Areas of Interest: multiphase flow and transport in porous media, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid equilibria, sols and emulsions, surfactants and interfaces, mass transfer, biotransformation, emerging contaminants
Research/Areas of Interest: structural engineering, concrete design, bridge analysis and design, structural analysis/design
Research/Areas of Interest: drinking water quality and toxic materials, groundwater monitoring
Research/Areas of Interest: environmental health
Research/Areas of Interest: Mathematical models of material behavior; Nonlinear magneto- and electromechanical interactions; Biomechanics of soft materials; Rubber elasticity and inelasticity
Research/Areas of Interest: Air pollution monitoring, mobile monitoring, air pollution modeling, ambient air quality, indoor air quality, air pollution control, air pollution exposure, air pollution epidemiology
Research/Areas of Interest: geotechnical, laboratory testing, automation, soil behavior, physical properties, mechanical properties, material science
Research/Areas of Interest: environmental and occupational epidemiology, environmental health and safety
Research/Areas of Interest: Offshore Wind Energy Structural Design Earthquake Engineering
Research/Areas of Interest: urban air population, transportation emissions
Research/Areas of Interest: Water Diplomacy, Principled Pragmatism, Data Driven Decision Making, Climate and Health, Remote Sensing, Flood Forecasting
Research/Areas of Interest: design, behavior, and modeling of concrete structures
Research/Areas of Interest: water resources, decision making under uncertainty, hydrologic statistics, integrated global change assessment
Research/Areas of Interest: water, sanitation, hygiene, infectious diseases, developing countries, emergencies
Research/Areas of Interest: hydrology, water resources systems, IWRM
Research/Areas of Interest: Probabilistic system identification of structures, signal processing, Bayesian inference, model updating, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, uncertainty quantification, verification and validation of computational models.
Research/Areas of Interest: cognition and learning sciences, science education, engineering education, diversity and identity, technology and education, language and cognition, multicompetence
Research/Areas of Interest: Bridge structural health monitoring, building train-induced vibrations, nondestructive testing of full-scale structures, fatigue life prediction of structures with nonproportional multi-axial loading.
Research/Areas of Interest: Environmental health, environmental epidemiology, air pollution, exposure science, data analytics
Research/Areas of Interest: Science focused on energy, development and environmental management. Computational modeling of electrical grid integration of renewable energy and storage. Interaction of science and policy in academia, industry and government
Research/Areas of Interest: engineering education, geoenvironmental and geotechnical engineering
Research/Areas of Interest: - Resilient and equitable infrastructure - Impacts of extreme events (e.g., drought, flood, wildfire) in a changing climate on infrastructure and communities - Climate adaptation of infrastructure - Slopes, dams, and levees - Unsaturated soil mechanics - Multi-physics (e.g., hydro-mechanical, thermo-hydro-mechanical) processes in soils - Analytical and numerical methods in geotechnical engineering
Research/Areas of Interest: applied mathematics and mechanics for geophysical and engineering problems
Research/Areas of Interest: epidemiologic methods