Civil Engineering/ Environment Engineering

As a student, you will study Fluid Mechanics, Soil Mechanics, Design of Structures, and Structural Mechanics and water resource engineering. And then as a civil engineer, you will be building roads, buildings bridges, dams, canals, seaports, power plants and airports! This sector is looking up these days mainly due to the numerous infrastructure projects that are in the pipeline for India. It is a challenging profile but immensely satisfying as well. Also, with the green way of living gaining popularity across the world, the role of a civil engineer often overlaps with that of an environment engineer as he needs to plan his projects in an environment-friendly manner.

In general, a fresh civil engineer can make Rs 20,000 to Rs 30,000 a month. Someone with 15-20 years’ experience can earn Rs 75,000 to Rs 1 lakh a month. In the government sector, for example, the CPWD director general earns Rs 80,000 a month.

You would get to work in companies like Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Indian Railways, Engineers India Ltd., DRDO, ISRO, SERC, PWD, DLF etc.

Best institutes (apart for the IITs and NITs) include:

• IT-BHU
• DTU
• BITS Pilani
• Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

For B.Tech in Environmental Engineering, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering of Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad is a very good option.