Engineering and building management : Subjects

This section covers four degree subjects which are closely linked, and graduates from these disciplines often work together professionally.

The engineering and building management sectors are starting to see the green shoots of recovery and the picture is more positive this year than last, in terms of employment levels and the number of predicted vacancies for graduates in these sectors. The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) Graduate Recruitment Survey Summer Review 2011 for example forecasts that in the engineering or industrial sectors there will be a 46.5% increase in vacancies from 2009-2010 to 2010-2011. In a their strategy plan, Construction Skills forecasts that from 2011 to 2015 the construction workforce is predicted to increase by nearly 8%.

The construction and engineering sectors are considered crucial to UK economic recovery. According to a report by Engineering UK, in 2010 the UK engineering sector made up nearly a fifth of the UK economy (19.6% of GDP) and employed over 4.5 million people.

• Architecture and building
• Civil engineering
• Electrical and electronic engineering
• Mechanical engineering