Study Civil Engineering at BUT
Become a Civil Engineer
in the Heart of Europe
Find out what studying at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Brno actually looks like.
Brno is the second-largest city in the Czech Republic and the one that students actually choose. Six public universities and more than 65,000 students give it a rhythm you notice the moment you arrive: trams running late into the night, canteens and cafés with student prices, a reservoir you can swim in twenty minutes from the centre, and a city core you can cross on foot.
Students rate it that way too. In the QS Best Student Cities rankings Brno sits in the world’s top 30 for Student Voice and Student Mix, the indicators built entirely from what students themselves say about friendliness, tolerance, getting around and affordability. In the Student View category it has ranked as high as sixth in the world, ahead of Prague and London.
It is also a city in the middle of rebuilding itself. A new main railway station and a whole new district on the former railway land make up the largest urban project in the country. Studying civil engineering here means the case study is a tram ride away.
| Vienna | 90 min by train |
| Bratislava | 90 min by train |
| Prague | 2.5 h by train |
| Vienna airport | 2 h by bus |
| City centre from the Faculty | 10 min on foot |
Affordable, and not by accident
A room in the university halls, a subsidised lunch in the canteen and a student transport pass for under EUR 100 a year are the reason our students can live close to the faculty rather than an hour outside it.380,000
inhabitants, big enough and never anonymous
65,000+
university students in the city
1 in 6
people in Brno is a student
Top 30
in the world, QS Student Voice
Faculty of Civil Engineering
A student testing a concrete beam in the laboratory Brno University of Technology was founded in 1899 with four professors, 47 students and a single field of study: civil engineering. That field was this faculty. Everything else at the university grew around it over the following century.
Today the Faculty of Civil Engineering is the largest of the eight faculties at BUT, with around 4,200 students. That size is what lets us cover the whole field, from structures and materials through water management and transport to geodesy, and still teach the English programmes in small groups.
You will spend a lot of time outside the lecture hall. Students press concrete to failure in our own laboratories, work with surveying instruments in the courtyard and on site, and join research at the AdMaS centre, where real structures are tested and optimised. Our lecturers take groups onto construction sites around Brno, including the ones you can watch changing the city skyline.
Your degree travels with you. The Czech Republic is part of the European Higher Education Area, our programmes run on ECTS credits and every graduate receives a Diploma Supplement in English, so the qualification is readable and recognised across Europe. Around 200 of our students spend part of their studies abroad each year, most of them on Erasmus+.
Student life at the FCE
The faculty year has its own calendar, and most of it is organised by students for students. You do not have to wait to be invited, everyone is welcome from the first week. You will see the faculty called FAST on posters, t‑shirts and signs around the campus: it stands for Fakulta stavební, the Czech name of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, and it is what everyone here says out loud.
Předškolovák
A camp by the Brno reservoir for new students, days before the first lecture. Hundreds of people come every year and most of the friendships of the first year start here.
FASTfest
Autumn festival in the faculty campus. A stage goes up in the courtyard and Czech and Slovak bands play into the night.
Stavařák
The students’ own winter get-together around St Nicholas’ Day, with mulled wine, music and the sort of programme that makes December bearable.
FAST Ball
The faculty ball, live bands, a full hall and everyone dressed up. The biggest night in the faculty year.
FAST Job Days
Three days when construction and engineering companies come to the faculty. You walk in, ask what you want to know and often walk out with a job in the field while still studying.
Researchers’ Night
One evening a year we open the laboratories to the public and show what actually happens here. Students run most of the experiments.
Student ambassadors
Our ambassadors are students a year or two ahead of you. They meet you before the semester starts and stay in touch through the whole first year: how enrolment works, where to eat, how to get a tram pass, who to ask when something goes wrong at the dormitory, and what to expect from an exam you have never sat before. Coming to a new country alone is the hardest part of studying abroad, and this is the part we take seriously.
And yes, the faculty has a beaver for a mascot.
What comes after
Civil engineers are in short supply across Central Europe and our graduates feel it. They design buildings, run sites, work in BIM and consultancy, or stay in research. Most of them are already in the industry before they collect the diploma, often through a contact made at Job Days.
Graduates of a Czech university can also apply for a residence permit to work in the Czech Republic, and the Brno Expat Centre helps with the paperwork.
~84 %
of students work in their field already during their studies
~96 %
of graduates find work or start a business within six months
~200
of our students study abroad every year
