Lecco, Italy
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 3,898 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
Blended, On-Campus
* tuition fees for Non-EEA students correspond automatically to the full contribution of 3898,20€; tuition fees for EEA students range from about 895,20 € to 3898,20 € per year
Key Summary
Introduction
Mission and Goals
The program links the fundamental disciplines of Civil Engineering (design and construction of civil and environmental structures and infrastructures) with a broad overview of the most advanced Risk Management tools, with particular attention to forecasting and prevention issues concerning structures and infrastructures and soil, on which they are built or embedded, due to natural and anthropic causes.
Curriculum
Subjects
In the first year the following topics are proposed:
- Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
- Soil-Structure Interaction
- Tools for Risk Management
- Flood Risk
- Structural Analysis
- Fundamentals of Gis
In the second year, students choose three thematic modules among the followings: Engineering Structures for the Environment; Geo-Engineering Techniques for Unstable Slopes; Emergency Plans for Hydro-Geological Risk; Structure Retrofitting for Seismic and Exceptional Loads; Transport management in emergency planning; Hazards from Industrial Sites: Process Analysis and Risk Assessment.
The final project is devoted to the solution of a field case.
Admissions
Rankings
Politecnico di Milano is one of the top universities in Milan, Italy.
It is ranked #111 in QS World University Rankings 2025.
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Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the institute website for more information.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
The graduate in Civil Engineering for Risk Mitigation deals with the design of structures and infrastructures, planning, control, and management of town and land systems, evaluation of the environmental impact of structures and infrastructures as well as research in public and private institutes. He/she can therefore find employment with construction companies, design and consultancy companies, and has access to Public Administration offices.