MSc — 2025 entry Infrastructure Engineering and Management with Industrial Practice
Our Infrastructure Engineering and Management with Industrial Practice MSc degree explores the planning, design, analysis and management frameworks of infrastructure systems.
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Why choose
this course?
A system-of-systems approach is required for designing new and managing existing infrastructure networks due to their interconnected nature. Understanding the resilience of the built environment against climate change and other external hazards – and how long-term sustainability-driven decision making can assist towards our transition to a net-zero carbon economy – is fundamental towards the safe and efficient functioning of society.
Our unique and accredited MSc provides you with specialist knowledge that can allow you to target niche positions in industry in the areas of infrastructure planning, delivery, operation and asset management. You’ll be taught by academics with a track record in infrastructure issues, together with professionals from industry.
You will have the opportunity to attend keynote talks from distinguished speakers and participate in an organisation visit related to the topics you’re studying.
You'll also have the opportunity to undertake a postgraduate placement year, allowing you to gain crucial workplace experience. We’ll support you in finding a placement with a company most suited to your career goals.
Accreditation
What you will study
This course is designed to:
- Develop your technical knowledge of infrastructure engineering within a social, economic, environmental and political context
- Enhance your understanding of the factors that affect and drive infrastructure planning and funding
- Equip you with the skills to assess the interdependent nature of infrastructure across different sectors.
You’ll acquire a sound understanding of the entire life cycle of infrastructure assets, the environmental impact of infrastructure projects, infrastructure finance models, Building Information Modelling (BIM), sustainable decision-making and formal asset-management techniques.
You’ll be able to use the knowledge you gain from this course for the creation of new infrastructure as well as the management of existing systems.
Facilities
Masters students benefit from a range of highly specialised facilities in our School of Sustainability, Civil and Environmental Engineering. These include:
- Air Quality Lab
- Centre for Environmental Health and Engineering, a designated World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for water quality and health
- Geotechnics and Geology Laboratory, recently upgraded with a £450,000 investment
- Materials and Structures Laboratory
- Surrey Advanced Geotechnical Engineering (SAGE) Lab
- Wind tunnel facilities.
Our MSc consists of eight modules which you will take over two semesters. This also includes a dissertation project that is completed throughout the academic year.
The structure of our programmes follows clear educational aims that are tailored to each programme. These are all outlined in the programme specifications which include further details such as the learning outcomes:
Teaching and learning
Your modules will be taught by a total of 20 full or part-time members of academic staff, as well as visiting speakers from industry and government.
In addition to the extensive resources available at the University Library, you can use our excellent testing facilities if you decide to pursue an experiment-based MSc dissertation project.
General course information
Contact hours
Contact hours can vary across our modules. Full details of the contact hours for each module are available from the University of Surrey's module catalogue. See the modules section for more information.
Timetable
New students will receive their personalised timetable in Welcome Week. In later semesters, two weeks before the start of semester.
Scheduled teaching can take place on any day of the week (Monday – Friday), with part-time classes normally scheduled on one or two days. Wednesday afternoons tend to be for sports and cultural activities.
View our code of practice for the scheduling of teaching and assessment (PDF) for more information.
Location
This course is based at Stag Hill campus. Stag Hill is the University's main campus and where the majority of our courses are taught.
We offer careers information, advice and guidance to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to our alumni for three years after leaving the University.
This masters course in infrastructure engineering and management opens up a huge range of career opportunities, not only with major consultancies and contractors, but across other sectors such as management and business consultancy. It may also help you target jobs that require a more specialised background in infrastructure engineering and management.
Recent MSc graduates have been employed by:
- AECOM
- Arcadis
- ARUP
- Atkins
- Capita Real Estate and Infrastructure
- Ferrovial
- J Murphy and Sons
- Mott MacDonald
- Peter Brett Associates
- WSP.
Vasileios Sardellas
Student - Infrastructure Engineering and Management MSc
"This course gave me a completely new view of engineering which includes management and how the infrastructure sectors interact with each other."
Shaan Ali
Graduate - Infrastructure Engineering and Management MSc
Shaan Ali shares her experience of studying for a masters part-time at Surrey, and what her day-to-day work involves as Senior Project Manager at Atkins, seconded to the M25 DBFO contract.
UK qualifications
A minimum of a 2:2 UK honours degree in civil engineering (or other related engineering, management or science subjects), or equivalent recognised international degree.
Applicants will be considered on an individual basis, based on strength in specific subjects related to the MSc Programme and/or professional experience.
English language requirements
IELTS Academic: 6.5 overall with 6.0 in writing and 5.5 in each other element.
These are the English language qualifications and levels that we can accept.
If you do not currently meet the level required for your programme, we offer intensive pre-sessional English language courses, designed to take you to the level of English ability and skill required for your studies here.
Recognition of prior learning
We recognise that many students enter their course with valuable knowledge and skills developed through a range of ways.
If this applies to you, the recognition of prior learning process may mean you can join a course without the formal entry requirements, or at a point appropriate to your previous learning and experience.
There are restrictions for some courses and fees may be payable for certain claims. Please contact the Admissions team with any queries.
Placements
This two-year MSc includes a placement year which enables you to gain invaluable professional experience working within an organisation.
After a year of full-time study at Surrey, you'll spend up to an additional 12 months on placement. You'll be responsible for securing your own placement, but we’ll support you in your search with a series of employability workshops and individual coaching.
We work closely with potential employers to help facilitate your successful placement. In addition to this, our award-winning Employability and Careers team are always ready to help, and they can provide you with a range of specialist resources and advice.
Scholarships and bursaries
Discover what scholarships and bursaries are available to support your studies.
Fees per year
Explore UKCISA’s website for more information if you are unsure whether you are a UK or overseas student. View the list of fees for all postgraduate courses.
September 2025 - Full-time (with placement) - 2 years
- UK
- To be confirmed
- Overseas
- To be confirmed
- These fees apply to students commencing study in the academic year 2025-26 only. Fees for new starters are reviewed annually.
Payment schedule
- Students with Tuition Fee Loan: the Student Loans Company pay fees in line with their schedule (students on an unstructured self-paced part-time course are not eligible for a Tuition Fee Loan).
- Students without a Tuition Fee Loan: pay their fees either in full at the beginning of the programme or in two instalments as follows:
- 50% payable 10 days after the invoice date (expected to be October/November of each academic year)
- 50% in January of the same academic year.
- Students on part-time programmes where fees are paid on a modular basis: cannot pay fees by instalment.
- Sponsored students: must provide us with valid sponsorship information that covers the period of study.
The exact date(s) will be on invoices.
Funding
You may be able to borrow money to help pay your tuition fees and support you with your living costs. Find out more about postgraduate student finance.
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