Our placement rate is 98%, among the nation’s highest, with the most recent starting salaries averaging over $50,000. We are a key recruitment source for many of America’s leading companies.

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Civil engineering offers an enormous range of career opportunities. Fields include: structural design; water, oil, gas, mineral or other resource and land development; transportation and hazardous waste management; and general project management. The degree may lead to a career in making airplanes, spacecraft, ocean liners, or submarines, or to medicine, dentistry or law. Civil engineers work for industry, government and as specialized consultants. Many start their own firms.

Co-ops and Internships
We strongly encourage civil engineering students to take advantage of co-op and internship opportunities. Through Clarkson's Career Center, you can choose among a broad range of summer or semester professional employment opportunities. You get an overview of what a career in civil engineering will be like, plus you get paid a professional salary while you learn!

Companies Who Hire Clarkson Civil Engineers
Those hiring range from consulting engineering firms such as Bechtel, O'Brien and Gere, Camp Dresser & McKee, and Harza International, to industrial firms like General Electric, United Technologies, Cives Steel, General Dynamics, and Boeing Airplane Company, and construction firms including Lane, Turner Corporation, and Perrini. National, state and local governments also hire many civil engineers.