Career prospects

The PhD program in Civil Engineering and Architecture contributes to the formation of highly qualified and specialized professionals and research personnel, equipped with autonomy, responsibility, high intellectual flexibility, ease of cultural and professional adaptation, and individual creative ability for rapid integration, mobility, and potential career reorientation.

The educational offer of the PhD enables students to acquire high-level skills, useful for publishing and communicating scientific results, as well as complementary skills that prepare students for entry into the workforce in innovative and cutting-edge fields, requiring them to apply their abilities in a multidisciplinary context.

Expected career opportunities: universities, public and private institutions and agencies, public and private research laboratories, regional, provincial, and municipal technical offices, companies, and private enterprises.

A significant statistic on career outcomes concerns a sample of alumni from the 15th to the 32nd cycle (source: AlmaLaurea): about 50% of PhD graduates are in academia, about 25% are employed by private companies, 15% are self-employed, and 10% work in public technical structures.

The latest available data from AlmaLaurea (2022, 33rd cycle) shows an employment rate of 100% after one year (67% in the private sector and 33% in the public sector); 67% are employed in intellectual, scientific, and highly specialized professions.