Students who complete their bachelor of science degree in Structural Engineering at UC San Diego have a wide variety of post-graduation opportunities available.  Please see the lists below for career choices, potential employers, and graduate school opportunities.  

Overview of Career Opportunities

Career Choices

Structural Engineering provides you with the versatility and analytical foundation to excel in any engineering career. 

 

Our program grants you flexibility in your career choice and a unique opportunity to diversify your engineering knowledge, allowing you to become the most marketable engineer in a rapidly changing industry.

 

Prepare yourself with an adaptable degree to pursue the nation's top engineering fields such as:

 

• Academic Research & Education
• Aerospace Engineering
• Agricultural Engineering
• Architectural Engineering
• Automobile Engineering
• Biomechanical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Construction Management
• Energy Structures
• Engineering Management
• Engineering Physics
• Environmental Engineering
• Fire and Life Safety
• Forensic Engineering
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Marine and Offshore Engineering
• Material Science Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Naval Engineering
• Non-Destructive Evaluation
• Research & Development
• Rocket Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Structural Health Monitoring
• Sustainability Design
• Systems Engineering
• Underground Structures
• Urban Studies and Planning

Potential employers

Below is a list of potential employers based on feedback from UCSD SE Alumni, SE Faculty, and the UCSD Career Center:

• AECOM
• Aerojet Rocketdyn
• Air Force Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base
• ATA Engineering
• Aurora Flight Sciences
• AZTEC Engineering Group, Inc. 
• Biggs Cardosa
• BNBuilders
• Boeing
• Buehler Engineering 
• Burns & McDonnell
• Buro Happpold
• BWE, Inc.
• California Department of Water Resources
• California Public Utilities Commission 
• Caltrans
• City of San Diego
• Clark Construction Group
• Clark Dietrich Building Systems
• Coffman
• Collins Aerospace
• Consulting Engineers Group
• Corebrace
• Cornerstone SE Group
• DCI Engineers
• Degenkolb Engineers
• Desimone
• Dokken Engineering
• Electrical Consultants, Inc.
• Engineering Partners Inc. 
• Ficcadenti Waggoner and Castle Structural Engineers
• Forell & Elsesser
• FYFE
• General Atomics
• General Dynamics - NASSCO
• Hayward Baker
• Hensel Phelps
• Hohbach-Lewin Inc. 
• Holmes Structures
• Innovative Structural Engineers
• Insight Structural Engineers
• Jacobs Engineering Group 
• JCE Structural Engineering Group
• John A. Martin & Associates
• John Labib + Associates (JLA)
• Katerra
• Kennedy & Jenks
• Kleinfelder
• KMB Design Group
• KPFF
• Lovelace Engineering 
• Magnusson Klemencic Associates
• MHP Structural Engineers
• Mike Surprenant & Associates
• Michael Baker International
• MiTek - USA
• Miyamoto International, Earthquake & Structural Engineers
• Moffat & Nichol
• Moog Aircraft Group
• NAVAIR
• Nielsen Construction
• Northrop Grumman
• Nous Engineering
• NV5 
• Paradigm Structural Engineers
• Parsons
• Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & IMF
• POWER Engineers
• Quartus Engineering 
• R&S Tavares
• Reid Middleton
• Ryan Companies US, Inc.
• Saiful Bouguet Structural Engineers
• San Diego Composites
• San Diego Gas and Electric
• San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
• SEAOSD
• Side Plate 
• Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
• Structural Focus
• Taquino Engineering
• The Consulting Engineers Group, Inc.  
• Thornton Tomasetti
• Turner Construction Company
• United Technologies Aerospace Systems
• Ventura Engineering Inland Inc.
• W.E. O'Neil
• Watry Design
• West Coast Civil
• Whiting Turner Contracting
• WJE 

Graduate school opportunities

Below is a list of schools students have reported as attending for graduate programs after completing their bachelor's degree at UCSD:

• UC San Diego (also offers BS/MS program)
• UC Berkeley
• UC Los Angeles
• UC Davis
• Stanford
• University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• California Institute of Technology
• University of Texas - Austin
• Purdue University
• Duke University
• Cornell University
• Northwestern University
• John Hopkins University
• University of Michigan
• Virginia Tech
• Colorado School of Mines
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Lehigh University