越来越多的咨询或行业雇主将硕士学位视为入门级学位。博士 学位强调在该领域处于领先地位的高级研究和参与创新研究。我们的系提供该国最顶尖的土木与环境工程研究生课程之一.MS学位可以有或没有论文就可以完成。如果学位论文是该计划的一部分，则MS学位需要32个学分时的研究生课程学分（其中32个小时中有8篇包含论文），无论文时则需要36个小时。可以在一年或更短的时间内完成MS非论文学位。伊利诺伊州CEE的岩土工程计划培养了几代专家，他们在使用天然材料（例如土壤和岩石）以及工程材料（例如混凝土，钢铁和土工合成材料，用于
An increasing number of employers in consulting or industry consider the master's degree as the entry-level degree. The Ph.D. degree emphasizes advanced study and participation in creative research that is at the leading edge of the field. Our department offers one of the top-ranked Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate programs in the country.The M.S. degree may be completed with or without a thesis. The M.S. degree requires 32 credit hours of graduate course credit if a thesis is part of the program (with 8 of the 32 hours comprising the thesis), and 36 hours without a thesis. It is possible to complete the M.S. non-thesis degree in one year or less.The Geotechnical Engineering program within CEE at Illinois has educated generations of experts in the use of natural material such as soil and rock in combination with engineered material such as concrete, steel and geosynthetics, in the design of dams, tunnels, on-shore and off-shore reclamation for airports, landfills, deep excavations, and foundations for structures of all kinds.