Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering
Barcelona, Spain
Master degree
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish,
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 19 / per credit *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* (82 euros for students from outside the EU and non-residents of Spain). Prices for the 2025-2026 academic year
Key Summary
About: The Master's in Environmental Engineering at The University of Barcelona trains students in pollution control and public health protection. It focuses on analysis, diagnosis, design and operation of environmental facilities, and on assessment, management, optimization and treatment technologies. The research-focused programme comprises 60 credits and suits graduates with scientific or technical backgrounds.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue career opportunities in private production and treatment plants, laboratories, engineering firms and public administrations. Roles include environmental consultant, wastewater and waste management engineer, remediation and air quality specialist, water resources engineer and applied researcher, working on design, operation, compliance and process optimization.
The Master's in Environmental Engineering offers advanced training in environmental pollution control and public health protection. Students will be able to address the environmental problems of today's society, many of which are related to air and water pollution, waste, and contaminated soils.
The aim is twofold: firstly, to ensure that graduates are able to analyze and diagnose problems and adopt the most appropriate solution; and secondly, to enable them to conceive and design the necessary facilities and services, as well as ensure their optimal operation.
The Master's program is designed with a research focus, equipping students to pursue applied research in the field of environmental engineering from a global perspective. It encompasses all aspects of assessment, minimization, management, optimization, process efficiency, and treatment technologies. The program comprises 60 credits and is aimed at graduates with scientific or technical backgrounds who are motivated to orient their professional careers toward innovation, application, and the development of technology for diagnosing and resolving environmental problems. Graduates of the Master's in Environmental Engineering can pursue their professional careers in both the private sector (production or treatment plants, laboratories, engineering firms, etc.) and the public sector (government agencies or other organizations).
goals
The overall educational objective of the Master's degree in Environmental Engineering is for graduates to know:
- To analyze and diagnose environmental problems.
- Adopt the most appropriate solutions to these problems with modern and eco-efficient management.
- To conceive and design the necessary facilities and services
- To achieve optimal performance from these facilities and services.
On the one hand, this master's program delves deeply into established environmental technology for direct application. On the other hand, due to increasing environmental demands and the new technological challenges facing society, its primary aim is to equip students to develop new tools for assessment, minimization, management, and treatment, and to conduct research in this field.
Therefore, the master's program is designed with a research orientation that enables applied research in the field of environmental engineering, from a global perspective that encompasses all aspects of evaluation, minimization, management, optimization, process efficiency and treatment technologies for all types of effluents and waste, which allow us to avoid or mitigate the effects of any type of human action on the environment.
Competencies
General competitions
- Ability to understand and express oneself correctly, orally and in writing, with mastery of specialized language.
- Ability to work in groups and in multidisciplinary and international teams.
- Ability to formulate creative solutions to the problems raised that integrate the relevant aspects of social responsibility or ethics.
- Adaptability, initiative, self-learning ability, autonomy, frustration tolerance, and emotional intelligence.
Specific competences
- Knowledge of the best available techniques (BAT) compatible with the environment.
- Knowledge and application of environmental assessment and management methodologies.
- Ability to identify, state, analyze and solve the most common environmental problems related to liquid or gaseous effluents, waste, and contaminated soils.
- Ability to propose and select the most suitable technologies.
- Ability to design facilities and services for waste and aqueous or gaseous effluent treatment plants, and obtain optimal performance.
- Ability to interpret and correlate the evolution of the operating variables of the treatment processes.
- Ability to carry out research and development projects in the field of environmental engineering that include the design and execution of experiments, the analysis of results and the drawing of conclusions.
What kind of work will you be able to do?
Graduates of the Master's in Environmental Engineering can develop professional activity both in the private sector 'production and treatment plants, laboratories and engineering firms, among others' and in the public sector 'administrations and other organizations' in tasks related to waste management, wastewater management and treatment, air pollution, remediation of contaminated soils, renewable energies, applied research in the field of environmental engineering, etc.
Credit distribution
| Guy | ECTS |
|---|---|
| Mandatory | 36 |
| Optional | 12 |
| External internships | 0 |
| Master's thesis | 12 |
| TOTAL | 60 |
List of subjects
| Subject | Guy | Language | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specialty: Environmental Engineering | |||
| Experimentation in Environmental Engineering | Mandatory | 2nd semester | 6 |
| Environmental Management | Mandatory | 1st semester | 6 |
| Innovation Management | Optional | 2nd semester | 3 |
| Forensic Environmental Engineering | Optional | 3 | |
| Water Treatment Engineering | Mandatory | 1st semester | 6 |
| Gaseous Effluent Treatment Engineering | Mandatory | 1st semester | 6 |
| Modeling of Biological Processes | Optional | 2nd semester | 3 |
| External Internships in Environmental Engineering | Optional | 1st semester 2nd semester | 6 |
| Advanced Oxidation Processes in Environmental Treatments | Optional | 2nd semester | 3 |
| Industrial Processes and the Environment | Mandatory | 1st semester | 6 |
| Waste and Contaminated Soils | Mandatory | 1st semester | 6 |
| Noise and Environment | Optional | 3 | |
| Membrane Technology in Water Treatment | Optional | 2nd semester | 3 |
| Master's Thesis | Mandatory | 1st semester 2nd semester | 12 |
| Energy Valorization | Optional | 2nd semester | 3 |