Study abroad
Studying abroad is a great way to boost your confidence, broaden your outlook and stand out with future employers. One of the most rewarding aspects of your civil engineering programme you’ll study with us is that you’ll have the option of taking an integrated study abroad year enabling you to experience another culture, while making friends and having fun. This will involve you spending the third year of your MEng at one of our specially selected partner universities overseas. You’ll study modules similar to those taught at Leeds. This means your year abroad will be incorporated within your degree and you won’t have to extend the length of your degree.
When you return to the University after your overseas experience, you’ll have a new perspective on life for your final year and you’ll also be awarded the ‘international’ variant in your degree title.
Studying abroad is popular so places for placement opportunities in some countries might be limited. Destinations may change each year; when you’re ready to apply our Study Abroad team is on hand to help you to research which placement is best suited to you. Further information on the impact of Brexit can be found here.
Eligibility
The year abroad is only available if you’re studying on the MEng course of the courses below. To be eligible for the international year abroad you’ll need to have achieved a minimum of 60% at the end of both years one and two.
Architectural Engineering
You can choose to spend the third year of your MEng in the USA at one of the following universities:
- Drexel University in Philadelphia
- University of Kansas in Lawrence
- University of Nebraska in Omaha.
Civil Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering with Project Management and Civil and Environmental Engineering
The table below shows the universities where you can study in your third year. This is subject to the number of available places and the course you choose to study.
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University |
Civil Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering |
Civil Engineering with Project Management |
Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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Australia |
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University of Adelaide |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
University of New South Wales |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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University of Western Australia, Perth |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
RMIT University |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
University of Newcastle |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Canada |
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McGill University |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
University of Calgary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
McMaster University |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Queens’s University |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Hong Kong |
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Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Singapore |
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National University of Singapore |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
USA |
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Arizona State University |
No |
Yes |
No |
|
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Purdue University, West Lafayette |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
European year
Our Civil Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering programmes also allow you to spend the third year of your MEng at one our university partnerships in Europe.
Special arrangements can also be made for other European languages. You will be taught in the local language, which adds international language skills to your portfolio. Our Language Centre runs a series of modules in the first and second year especially for engineers, to raise your linguistic level to an adequate standard for these exchanges.