The civil engineering jobs have mostly been the same for 50 years. However, they will shortly be changing, due to the changes made to enable innovative graduate programs that will be made by the BET. There will no longer be a ban on a dual level within the accreditation of the civil engineering programs. The BET board of directors voted in order to remove the prohibition during one of their recent meetings. The ban that was overturned actually kept schools from having both an undergraduate program and a master's program in the same engineering discipline. This meant that a school could only offer a master's program, or an undergraduate program in any certain type of civil engineering job, but could not offer both of the levels of programs. However, the ban has now been overturned. This means that schools can offer both the levels of education in any scope of civil engineering that they want to. What does this mean for civil engineering jobs? Well, it means that the jobs themselves will be easier to get educated for. A person can get both levels of their degree at the same school. This will make civil engineering jobs more accessible to students.
The changes also open up many different paths that students can take in order to get the right degrees and licenses for the civil engineering jobs that they would like to have. The change will allow schools to open up their programs, and will mean that schools can offer a continuing program. The hope is that if more schools are offering more master's level degrees within civil engineering, more students will be ready to take these courses and therefore get more education. This will mean that the civil engineering jobs that require a high level of education will end up with more competition, because more and more students will be eligible for them, after getting the education that is needed for these jobs.
It also means that the jobs that require a smaller or shorter degrees might want to consider changing the way that they work. Often, programs that only required undergraduate degrees would have the biggest amount of competition, because most people who were looking for civil engineering jobs were people who only had the undergraduate degree. A Masters' degree was more difficult to get because they wouldn't be able to get it at their same program. Many students didn't want to go to the trouble of applying to a new program in order to get their degree, so they would simply stop with the undergraduate degree. Therefore, there were more civil engineering jobs that only required an undergraduate degree that had a lot of competition. Now, however, more students will be looking to actually continue their education and get their master's degree because they can easily do so through their home university. This will allow jobs higher up on the scale to obtain more applicants. It will also mean that jobs that didn't require a degree at the master's level will have less competition, and some of these jobs might decide to change their requirements because many people are getting Masters' degrees.
What this means is that everything is going to be changing. If you feel that you would be able to get a good job with your current level of degree, you might want to think about the changes that have been made within the educational system. Many people feel that the best civil engineering jobs are the jobs that require more education on your part. Therefore you might want to consider obtaining your Masters' degree as well.
Additionally, civil engineering jobs that do not require a master's degree are going to be paying much less than those who do. And, often, it is easy to hit a ceiling when you are in a civil engineering job that only requires an undergraduate degree. No matter how long you work at that job, or how good you might be at it, there will come a point in time where you cannot get promoted any further without having the degree that is needed. Therefore, you might want to consider being able to actually get the right amount of education before you begin your job hunt.
A major change within the educational scenario is that it will be taught in different ways. Due to the increase in popularity of the job, you can expect there to be more schools which will teach it. This will give you a greater opportunity to learn.
Now that Masters' degrees in civil engineering are going to be easier to get, it will become important to make sure that you have the right licensures for the jobs that you are looking into. As the various educational changes take place within this job, the requirements for getting your license will be changing as well. You may need to take additional classes, and you may be required to pass additional exams in order to qualify. Be sure that you have contacted the various job venues to see what types of jobs you can get with the degree that you have obtained. Remember that you can enroll and study for a master's degree while you are working in a firm. This will also make you much more marketable in the long run, so it is something that you might want to consider.
