Career prospects

The programme is suited for:

• Project managers and team leaders in the multidisciplinary task of planning technical, economical, social and environmental feasible hydropower projects
• Dam safety engineers (VTA)

Career prospects

With a master’s degree in Hydropower Development you will have interesting engineering career prospects both in Norway and abroad with:

• consulting engineering companies
• contractors
• water and energy authorities
• developers
• power and utilities companies
• or institutions in development cooperation.

The hydropower industry and the authorities in Norway have an active recruitment policy towards new hydropower engineers as it is predicted that there will be a deficit of qualified engineers.