Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) Conjoint - Civil Engineering

The University of Auckland

This conjoint degree contains a strong practical focus, ensuring that you'll be ready for a career in engineering, business and leadership. Your BCom starts with a two-course sequence in Business and Enterprise, which introduces the types of challenges that entrepreneurs and managers regularly face. Advanced courses will help to develop your specialist knowledge and skills. The BE(Hons) provides you with the option to pursue one of nine specialisations available at the country’s leading Engineering faculty. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the technical, practical, and theoretical knowledge it takes to become an innovator in this exciting industry. This programme provides you with a combination of business and engineering knowledge, a unique skillset highly desired by employers. Graduates from this programme have gone on to succeed in a wide variety of careers. Combine your engineering and business knowledge as a project manager or consultant for an engineering firm, or follow your passion into a career in business or engineering.A specialisation in Civil Engineering offers you a combined emphasis on buildings, infrastructure and development, and environmental management. Our courses are designed to offer you a well-rounded education that prioritises tangible applications for technical knowledge in mathematics and science. In this specialisation, you will learn a range of skills, like how to design structures for loads they will experience doing their lifetime, and understand key infrastructure problems so you can design them to support modern cities. There’s also a substantial focus on environmental concerns, such as how to balance environmental issues during a construction project and the proper planning of stormwater and waste management facilities. We are also actively working to weave mātauranga Māori into our course content, projects, and student research to enrich our curriculum, and to solidify the relevance of our discipline within New Zealand and beyond.