How long is the BEng in Highway Engineering?

The BEng in Highway Engineering is a three-year UK Level 6 honours degree, with part-time and accelerated routes and a year-two placement at LSCE.

How is the BEng in Highway Engineering delivered?

The BEng in Highway Engineering is delivered on-campus in central London, online with design-software provisioning, or by distance learning, with weekly tutor visibility.

Is the BEng in Highway Engineering recognised in the UK?

Yes. The BEng in Highway Engineering is a UK Level 6 honours degree aligned with CIHT and ICE competency frameworks.

What are the entry requirements?

You need 96 UCAS points including a relevant subject, GCSE English and Maths, and IELTS 6.0 for non-native speakers. BTEC and Foundation Year students articulate into the BEng in Highway Engineering.

How much does the BEng in Highway Engineering cost?

Fees for the BEng in Highway Engineering follow UK Level 6 bands. Scholarship review, instalment plans and employer-sponsored routes are available, and admissions confirms figures within one working day.

BEng in Highway Engineering | LSCE | Harold International College of London

Course Overview

The BEng in Highway Engineering is a UK Level 6 honours degree running three years full-time, with part-time and accelerated routes. It prepares graduates for UK roads, transport corridors and multimodal infrastructure, from geometric design and pavement engineering through traffic engineering and asset management. The syllabus is aligned with CIHT, ICE and Transport for London engagement material.

By graduation you will be designing highway alignments, delivering a year-two industry placement and closing with a final-year capstone on a live highway engineering brief.

UK civil and built-environment practice is shaped by ICE, IStructE, CIOB and CIWEM chartership expectations, Eurocode conventions and UK planning and procurement realities.

Assessment blends coursework, examinations, a year-two industry placement and a final-year dissertation or capstone project. Each year is weighted to give the placement year proper preparation and the final year proper support.

Cohorts study through structured lectures, seminars, labs and studio critique, with named personal tutors and progression boards ensuring nobody drifts.

The BSc or BEng route is a full three-year honours degree with structured progression, industry placement and a substantive final-year project.

Key Features

Curriculum aligned with CIHT, ICE and Transport for London engagement material.
Modules on geometric design, pavement engineering, drainage and traffic engineering.
Structured year-two industry placement with LSCE careers-service support.
Coverage of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) practice.
Use of industry-standard highway design software.
Final-year capstone on a live highway engineering brief.
Regular site-visit programme within London and the South East.
Structured technical drawing and specification-writing workshops embedded across the taught stage.
Access to LSCE alumni network across UK civil, construction and environmental employers for mentoring and job introductions.
Weekly clinics with a named programme tutor for one-to-one design review and career coaching.
Regular site visits and consultant guest-lectures organised through LSCE careers service.
Cohort-wide design-review events at the close of each teaching block with consultant observers invited.
Access to LSCE's engineering library and Eurocode and standards subscriptions.

What You Will Learn

Design horizontal and vertical highway alignments.
Design flexible and rigid pavement structures.
Plan highway drainage and SuDS strategies.
Apply DMRB and UK highway design standards.
Model traffic flow and junction performance.
Manage highway asset condition and maintenance programmes.
Frame safety audit and Vision Zero considerations.
Communicate design outcomes to authorities and communities.
Structure a design portfolio suitable for UK graduate and chartership-track applications.
Coordinate design deliverables across disciplines and consultant teams.
Work inside modern UK contractor and consultant delivery teams.
Manage design change under UK NEC-family contract conventions.
Coordinate with UK planning authorities and community stakeholders.
Support site inspection and construction queries during handover.
Communicate design decisions and residual risk to clients and community stakeholders.
Balance capital cost, whole-life cost and carbon in every design decision.

Who This Course Is For

School leavers targeting a highway or transport career.
BTEC and Foundation Year students articulating to an honours degree.
Serving highway technicians moving into graduate practice.
International applicants seeking a UK-recognised BEng.
Working professionals topping up an existing HND or Foundation Degree.
International applicants targeting a UK-recognised BEng or BSc with structured UK placement support.
Applicants applying with a portfolio of prior projects or workplace evidence.
Applicants applying via the LSCE portfolio-only route with substantive workplace evidence.

Career Pathways

Highway Engineer
Transport Planner
Traffic Engineer
Civil Engineer with a highways focus
Pavement Engineer
Asset Management Engineer
Urban Infrastructure Engineer

The LSCE careers service maintains contacts with UK highway consultancies, Transport for London supply chains and Highways England-adjacent contractors. Graduates move into UK graduate schemes, consultancies, product firms and public-sector delivery groups with structured support through the final year and beyond.

Careers-service coaching begins in year one with careers planning and CV clinics, escalates to placement support in year two, and closes with graduate-scheme application coaching in the final year.

Entry Requirements

A-levels totalling at least 96 UCAS points (or international equivalent), including one science or maths subject.
GCSE English at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C (or equivalent).
Applicants with a Level 3 BTEC or a completed LSCE Certificate/Diploma progress on articulation into the BEng in Highway Engineering.
IELTS 6.0 overall (no band below 5.5) for non-native English speakers.
Two references, normally one academic and one personal.

Applicants whose profile falls just outside these thresholds can request a portfolio review, LSCE admissions considers substantive workplace evidence alongside formal qualifications.

Why Study at LSCE

LSCE, part of Harold International College of London, teaches computing and engineering in small tutor-visible cohorts and partners with UK professional bodies including CIHT, ICE and CIWEM. The London campus places Transport for London, the ICE and major UK highway consultancies within a short tube ride.

Undergraduates choose from on-campus, online with design-software provisioning, or distance learning with the same provisioning, and every route benefits from the LSCE careers service. The College's shared library, careers-service industry connections and elective-module access across the wider Harold International College catalogue are open to every enrolled student subject to availability.

LSCE is designed so on-campus, online and distance-learning students receive genuinely equivalent teaching. Online and distance students receive the same lab kit, same tutor visibility and same assessment brief as on-campus students.

Apply for BEng in Highway Engineering

Begin your honours degree with LSCE. Click Enrol Now, admissions will respond within one working day with UCAS guidance, placement information and scholarship review. Applications are reviewed as they arrive so early submissions receive the widest choice of intake dates, module options and supervision slots.

Applicants who need employer-sponsorship letters, credit-transfer confirmation or accommodation guidance can request these in the first admissions conversation. Applicants can also visit the central London campus for an open-day tour before enrolment, or request a live online session with the programme team.