BEng Hon Civil Engineer Civil Engineering Degree Apprenticeship

This unique programme is designed to fully integrate your academic learning with your professional role, allowing you to apply theoretical knowledge directly to live projects in your workplace from day one. You'll complement your on-the-job training with access to our outstanding facilities in the Newton Building, including our Civil Engineering Laboratories with their heavy structures lab, modern hydraulics equipment, and advanced geotechnics research apparatus. Your learning is enhanced by industry-standard software and is immediately applicable to your professional context, creating a continuous cycle of learning and application that benefits both you and your employer.

Here’s how you’ll blend academic and practical learning:

• Work-Based Application: You'll immediately apply academic theory to real-world challenges in your workplace, undertaking technical projects that contribute directly to your employer's civil engineering operations.

• Industry-Standard Software: You'll gain proficiency in essential professional tools including AutoCAD for technical drawing, Revit for Building Information Modelling (BIM), and specialist analysis software directly applicable to your professional role.

• Structures Laboratory Sessions: During block teaching, you'll conduct hands-on experiments in our heavy structures lab featuring a strong floor and reaction wall, enhancing your understanding of structural behavior.

• Geotechnical Engineering Testing: You'll use our advanced geotechnical testing apparatus during residential sessions, gaining practical insight into ground engineering principles relevant to your workplace projects.

• Integrated Projects: Your academic assignments will be directly linked to your professional practice, allowing you to develop solutions for actual challenges faced by your employer.

• Mentor Support: You'll benefit from dual support from both your workplace mentor and academic supervisor, ensuring seamless integration of learning and practice.

• Professional Network Development: You'll build connections with apprentices from other leading employers in the sector, sharing best practices and industry insights.

• Immediate Skill Application: Every academic module delivers immediately applicable knowledge and skills that you can implement directly in your professional role between teaching blocks.

Graduates of this Civil Engineer Degree Apprenticeship step into roles such as civil engineer, structural analyst, infrastructure planner, or site coordinator—already with both academic credentials and real-world experience. Thanks to its apprenticeship structure, you emerge with a paid degree, practical employer-linked exposure, and a head start toward professional recognition via Incorporated Engineer (IEng) status. 

Progression & Future Opportunities:
Here’s how Salford guides your progression from Day 1 through to your career launch:

• University Services to Boost Employability

  • Integrated Work & Study Structure: Delivered part-time via day-release over five years, you’ll balance academic learning with on-the-job training—your employer contributes to, and co-ordinates with, the university to ensure what you learn is relevant and immediately applicable. 

  • Employer-Supported Projects & End Point Assessment (EPA): In your final year, you'll undertake an individual project calibrated to real workplace challenges—tied closely to your employer’s priorities—and then complete an EPA aligned with industry professional standards. 

  • Personalized Support Framework: You benefit from regular progress meetings between your tutor and employer supervisor—ensuring balanced support in both academic and workplace settings. 

• Employment Stats & Salary Figures

  • While official apprenticeship-specific earnings aren’t publicly disclosed, Salford’s wider BEng Civil Engineering outcomes indicate a median salary of £27,500 at 15 months post-graduation, rising to £30,500 after five years—showing solid long-term earning potential. 

• University–Industry Partnerships

  • Fully Accredited by JBM: This apprenticeship pathway is fully accredited by the Joint Board of Moderators—including ICE, IStructE, CIHT, IHE and more—meeting academic requirements for IEng and partial progression toward Chartered Engineer (CEng). 

  • Industry-Driven Curriculum: Modules like structural design, environmental risk, geotechnics, water resources, and surveying are integrated with industrial decision-making methods—reflecting current civil engineering practice. 

• Long-Term Accreditation Value

  • When you complete this apprenticeship, you earn both a BEng (Hons) degree and satisfy the educational foundations for Incorporated Engineer (IEng) status. Plus, you’re already partway toward Chartered Engineer (CEng), requiring only accredited Further Learning thereafter. 

• Graduation Outcomes

  • You’ll graduate uniquely positioned: with a recognised civil engineering degree, practical experience built in alongside your studies, strong industry ties, and a route to professional registration. This combination makes you exceptionally ready for roles like civil structural engineer, infrastructure consultant, or project lead, with real applied competence and credibility.

Further Academic Progression:
After successfully completing your apprenticeship and moving into professional practice, you may choose to deepen your expertise through postgraduate study—like an MSc in Advanced Structural or Infrastructure Engineering—which also serves as an accredited “Further Learning” pathway toward full Chartered Engineer (CEng) status. Alternatively, many graduates move directly into technical, managerial, or consultancy roles—equipped with experience, accreditation, and the strong academic foundation they need.