
BSc in Environmental and Land Engineering
Turin, Italy
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
Italian
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
30 Apr 2025*
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 3,821 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* admission test (TIL) sessions will be held on: march 11th, 12th, 20th, 27th | april 10th and 11th | may 7th, 8th, 9th | july 16th and 17th | august 28th and 29th |the registration timeframe for each session is available on our website
** tuition fees for both EU and non-EU students depend on the income of the family unit |the amount can vary up to a maximum of € 3821,00 a year
Introduction
The BSc degree programme in Environmental and Land Engineering will train you to become an environmental engineer, a professional with a highly transversal and versatile profile. Given the complexity of environmental issues, the program will provide you with solid basic knowledge, multidisciplinary skills and an attitude towards innovation. You will master the technical and scientific aspects of human interaction with soil, water, atmosphere and biosphere and will collaborate in the design of processes and solutions for a sustainable relationship between humans and the environment. Ultimately, you will acquire a broad view and understanding of complex environmental issues, whose significance for society is increasingly apparent, along with the high level of adaptability needed in the rapidly changing job market.
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Curriculum
The programme is completely taught in Italian, with the possibility to attend only the first year in English.
During the first and second year you will be trained in the basic scientific and engineering subjects needed to understand the physical world and to simulate the events, processes and phenomena that take place on our planet.
The second and third year are dedicated to the study of specific scientific and engineering subjects relating to the wide field of environmental and land engineering. These studies are essential to enter the job market or pursue further studies, at Politecnico or elsewhere, that address specialized issues in all areas of environmental and land engineering domain.
In addition, you will have the opportunity to select some elective courses, in order to complete and deepen your expertise on emerging issues related to environmental engineering.
At the end of the programme, you will undergo a final exam based on an independently produced project.
The programme courses are structured as follows:
Year 1
- Chemistry (8 credits)
- Computer sciences (8 credits)
- English Language 1st level (3 credits)
- Mathematical analysis I (10 credits)
- Linear algebra and geometry (10 credits)
- Metodi per l'ingegneria ambientale (6 credits)
- Physics I (10 credits)
Year 2
- Analisi matematica II (8 credits)
- Disegno (6 credits)
- Fisica II (6 credits)
- Termodinamica applicata e trasmissione del calore (8 credits)
- Chimica ambientale/Ecologia applicata all'ingegneria (12 credits)
- Crediti liberi dal catalogo di Ateneo “Grandi Sfide Globali” (6 credits)
- Scienza e tecnologia dei materiali (6 credits)
- Topografia (6 credits)
Year 3
- Idraulica (10 credits)
- Ingegneria sanitaria ambientale (8 credits)
- Scienza delle costruzioni (10 credits)
- Crediti liberi del 3° anno (6 credits)
- Geologia applicata/Geofisica (12 credits)
- Circular economy e sostenibilità ambientale (8 credits)
- Geotecnica (10 credits)
- Prova finale (3 credits)
In addition to frontal lectures, the course is characterized by numerous teamwork and “learning by doing” activities, in particular:
- You will be able to apply the acquired knowledge through guided exercises and simple projects that require the employment of models and methodologies taught in frontal lectures. Furthermore, some elective courses involve group projects and practice exercises that will enhance your critical thinking skills
- The first-year course “Metodi per l’ingegneria ambientale” includes a significant portion of practice exercises and team work. You will have the chance to simulate an engineering start-up responsible for the identification of sustainable solutions to simple environmental problems through collaborative work in class as well as independent research and problem-solving.
- You will have the chance to take part in study visits and field trips
- You will be able to join student teams
- You will be able to include a curricular internship in your study plan
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
After your graduation, you can decide to enroll in a Master’s Degree programme or in a 1st level specializing Master. You will have direct access to the Master’s Degree in Environmental and Land Engineering and to the Master’s Degree in Georesources and Geoenergy Engineering, or you will be able to enter the job market. The main areas of employment are:
- Industry sector: you will have the chance to work on sustainability processes, compliance with environmental and health and safety regulations, management of waste and wastewater treatment plants;
- Public Administration: you will be in charge of managing and monitoring the production activities, and applying the environmental guidelines;
- Project engineering and consulting firms: you will collaborate in the planning of projects concerning the remediation of contaminated sites, waste and wastewater treatments and the mitigation of environmental and hydrogeological hazards.
Program Outcome
At the end of the Bachelor’s Degree programme in Environmental and Land Engineering you will have the expertise to carry out the following job titles:
- Plant management specialist: expert in managing processes in companies and plants, and in carrying out operational tasks of environmental analysis and supervision such as the containment of polluting emissions, wastewater and emission purification, water, waste and air pollution treatment.
- Monitoring systems specialist: expert in the development of monitoring systems of main impacts, prevention and protection services, management of the monitoring network of environmental parameters for water resources and other environmental sections.
- Construction site specialist: expert in the prevention and control of the hydrogeological risk, in restoration after hydrogeological instabilities, and in infrastructure construction sites.
- Junior project engineer/junior consultant: developer of environmental impact assessments, contributor to the planning of land and infrastructure protection works, of waste and wastewater treatment plants, of interventions for environmental recovery, carrying out environmental analyses.
- Environmental management specialist: expert in environmental management systems, quality, evaluation of environmental compatibility and production process safety in companies.
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