Master of Science in Civil Engineering 

at UCLA, Los Angeles

Applicants must meet the following requirements:

• Required to hold a Bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale (or equivalent).
• International students:  Post-secondary degrees completed outside the U.S. must represent completion of at least four years of study with above average scholarship from a university or university-level institution.
• In rare circumstances, applicants without an undergraduate degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering may be admitted to our graduate programs. Typically these applicants have related degrees who have completed requisite coursework. For example, an Environmental Science undergraduate major applying to our Environmental and Water Resources Engineering graduate program who has also completed requisites for the graduate degree.  We encourage applicants to complete requisite coursework for their intended graduate degree program prior to applying.
• Requisite coursework include the following :
  • Required Preparatory Courses. General chemistry and physics with laboratory exercises, multivariate calculus, linear algebra and differential equations, introductory thermodynamics.