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This fall, the Washington University in St. Louis School of Engineering & Applied Science will no longer admit students for the Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering, and will not seek re-accreditation for the degree program when it expires in September 2013.

 

The decision was made by the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Structural Engineering.

Current civil engineering undergraduates will be able to graduate with an accredited degree, as long as they graduate by summer 2013. Beginning immediately, no new students will be admitted into the major.

 

WUSTL will continue to offer structural engineering degrees at the master's and doctoral levels, and it also will continue to offer a minor in structures for undergraduate students. In addition, WUSTL will continue to offer a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering through the Joint Undergraduate Engineering Program with the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

 

The decision of the department was based on a desire to focus its intellectual efforts and resources and to build on existing strengths in areas such as biotechnology, energy and materials engineering.

 

Washington University in St. Louis is a nonsectarian, private research university located in Greater St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853 and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than one hundred and twenty five nations. Twenty-two Nobel laureates have been associated with Washington University, nine doing the major part of their pioneering research at the university

 

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