土木工程专业的理学硕士使工程师能够在强调高层合作研究的各种工业或学术职业领域取得进步。土木工程专业的硕士学位可以作为攻读博士学位的一步。工程，或者它可以提供提高就业市场竞争力所需的经验和证书。该课程可以在短短两年内完成，尽管典型的学生每学期要学习五个学期的两门课程。专业化：该部门提供以下领域的专业化计划：结构工程，结构力学，环境工程，运输工程和建筑工程管理。
Our infrastructure demands the attentive eye of someone like you to sustain productive communities, from our roads, buildings, and dams to air quality and wastewater treatment - and even traffic patterns. At UAB, we can give you the engineering, design, and planning background you need to be a leader in civil engineering.<br><br>To prepare you for your career, we've designed a program that you can tailor based on your interests and goals. We have four concentrations for you to choose from, including construction engineering management, in which you can learn about cost and revenue estimating, risk, and more. You can also specialize in construction engineering management to learn about cost and revenue estimating, risk, and more. Plus you can choose a thesis option, non-thesis option with an emphasis on research and design, or a non-thesis option with an emphasis on sustainable engineering design. But no matter which you choose, you're going to need to both complete a comprehensive exam and defend either your research project or thesis in order to graduate. Finally, we're going to offer you the opportunity to earn a certificate in environmental, structural, sustainable, and transportation engineering, or engineering construction management. In the end, you'll have the best chance at an education designed to meet your specific career goals.