Students who are interested in planning, designing, and executing structural works, opt for the Civil Engineering trade in JEE exam counseling. Civil engineering deals with a wide variety of engineering tasks including designing, supervision, and construction activities of public works like roads, bridges, tunnels, buildings, airports, dams, waterworks, sewage systems, ports, etc., and offers a multitude of challenging career opportunities.

What does A civil Engineer do?

A civil engineer is responsible for planning and designing a project, constructing the project to the required scale, and maintenance of the product.

Specializations in Civil Engineering:

The major specializations within civil engineering are structural, water resources, environmental, construction, transportation, geotechnical engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Irrigation Engineering, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering etc.

Entry Level or Eligibility Criteria for Civil Engineering

Under Graduate Level or B.Tech in Civil Engineering

Students who want to do B. Tech in Civil Engineering must be passed 10+2 examination with Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry along with a score obtained in national/state level entrance test. National Level Engineering Entrance Examination like the IIT JEE score is valid in top engineering colleges in India. Some universities may conduct their own entrance exams also.

Post Graduate Level

Students who want to study Post Graduation/ M.Tech in Civil Engineering must have undergraduate degree/B.Tech in Civil Engineering with at least 60% marks and have cleared the GATE entrance test.

Courses offered in Civil Engineering

 B.Tech in Civil  Engineering

M.Tech in Civil Engineering

The above-mentioned courses are available for study at various top colleges & Engineering Institutes of India. Students can study Civil Engineering course at the below mentioned institutes and colleges and make their career in this field.

Various colleges and Institutes for Civil Engineering are:

1. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur

 2. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur

3. Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

 4. Calicut University, Malappuram, Kerala

 5. Aliah University, Kolkata

 6. Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, Rajasthan

 7. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi

 8. Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi (http://www.ignou.ac.in/)

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