Course - Master's thesis in Civil Engineering for international students - TBM4920
Master's thesis in Civil Engineering for international students
New from the academic year 2026/2027
Assessments and mandatory activities may be changed until September 20th.
About
About the course
Course content
Master thesis for exchange students in the field of Civil Engineering. The topic is decided upon agreement.
Academic content must be agreed with assigned supervisor within the field.
Learning outcome
Students will complete a master's thesis within the field.
Knowledge:
Use scientific methods in the implementation of a independent work in the field.
Skills:
Students will be able to prepare a project plan with milestones, reporting partial results and write a thesis in accordance with established standards.
General competence:
Documented scientific qualifications through completion of a master's thesis in the field.
Learning methods and activities
Independent thesis work under supervision. The thesis may wholly or partly be completed at an external company, in agreement with the academic supervisor.
Mandatory Activities
The student must give an oral presentation well in advance of submitting the assignment in order to make any necessary adjustments before submission.
- It is expected that the presentation will cover both a subject-related part and a methodology part.
- The presentation should last for 30 minutes, including questions from the audience.
Compulsory assignments
- Oral presentation
Further on evaluation
Information about writing and submitting your Master's thesis: Oppgaveskriving
The Master's thesis has to be submitted in NTNU's examination system.
The deadline for submitting the Master's thesis is 20 weeks from the starting date (the students have additional 6 weeks if they are writing a master thesis abroad.) + 7 days for Easter/Christmas holidays.
Students who fail the Master's thesis, can submit a new or revised thesis once. It is not possible to improve an awarded grade by submitting a new thesis. The deadline for the assessment of the Master's thesis is 3 months from the submission deadline.
Course materials
By agreement with the thesis supervisor. Parts of the expected learning outcome is to be able to find and utilize relevant literature.
Subject areas
- Fire Technology
- Build Acoustics
- Facility Management
- Building Technology
- Port Engineering
- Hydraulic Engineering
- Water Supply and Wastewater Systems
- Geomatics
- Marine Civil Engineering
- Project Quality Management
- Building and Construction Engineering
- Road, Transport and Geomatics
- Construction Engineering
- Railway Engineering
- Railway Engineering
- Highway Engineering
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Transportation Engineering
- Building Technology