Graduating with a 2.2 in Civil Engineering, What career options do I have?

2:2 in engineering is fine. You might not get into graduate jobs at top/big eng firms, but loads of small based eng firms would take you on no problem. Also you don't necessarily need to apply for a graduate entry eng job, there are plenty of engineering jobs out there. Have a look, start applying start emailing for info to firms asking if 2:2 would be a hindrance.

What work experience do you have, the more the better. In fact with enough that 2:2 will be meaningless.

2:2 in engineering is fine. You might not get into graduate jobs at top/big eng firms, but loads of small based eng firms would take you on no problem. Also you don't necessarily need to apply for a graduate entry eng job, there are plenty of engineering jobs out there. Have a look, start applying start emailing for info to firms asking if 2:2 would be a hindrance.

What work experience do you have, the more the better. In fact with enough that 2:2 will be meaningless.

I just graduated a few days ago with a 2.2 in Civil Engineering from The University of Nottingham missing a 2.1 only by 1.4% due to extenuating circumstances that I had in my second year, which really brought my average down.

Now, my question is, what are my options for life? What are my chances of applying for a 2.2 or unspecified minimum degree requirements? Would employers still prefer 2.1 and first students over me for those jobs? I've done a lot of extra curriculars throughout my university and life and have also had relevant work experience (though in South Asia).

My preferred fields are renewable energy, transport engineering, railway engineering, or surveying.

Does anyone know any experiences of similar cases? How should I go on about this?

is this in your BEng or MEng?

you still have loads of options just apply for jobs abroad or here, as Lepers said a 2.2 in engineering isn't bad they are a lot of companies that recruit people with 2.2's in their engineering degrees (including Siemens, Jaguar etc. just to name a few).

Why is it so relaxed in engineering?

Why is it so relaxed in engineering?

Why is it so relaxed in engineering?

is this in your BEng or MEng?

It's BEng and if it matters, I just missed a 2:1 by 1.4%. And regarding the abroad thing, I'm originally from Germany but living in London now, so would that be helpful in finding work in a German speaking country? I honestly would prefer that over the UK.

Have any advice on how to apply abroad? Should I go straight to companies' websites or is there a website for finding jobs abroad? I might sound less knowledgeable in this regard, but any help would be highly appreciated!

I wouldn't be so positive as everyone else, for engineering a 2:2 often means being in the bottom 10% of your class, so you'd need to have had quite a lot of work experience and extracurriculars to make up for that.

However now seeing that you only did a BEng you could do an MSc to try and make up for the 2:2.

I wouldn't be so positive as everyone else, for engineering a 2:2 often means being in the bottom 10% of your class, so you'd need to have had quite a lot of work experience and extracurriculars to make up for that

It's BEng and if it matters, I just missed a 2:1 by 1.4%. And regarding the abroad thing, I'm originally from Germany but living in London now, so would that be helpful in finding work in a German speaking country? I honestly would prefer that over the UK.

Have any advice on how to apply abroad? Should I go straight to companies' websites or is there a website for finding jobs abroad? I might sound less knowledgeable in this regard, but any help would be highly appreciated!

You would be at an advantage as I would imagine you can speak German at a good level right? Also the pay abroad is better than it is here lol just depends where you fancy yourself being tbh.

You can use these as a starting point:

http://targetjobs.co.uk/career-sectors/engineering

http://www.gradcracker.com/

http://www.euroengineerjobs.com/jobs/germany

2:2 in engineering is fine. You might not get into graduate jobs at top/big eng firms, but loads of small based eng firms would take you on no problem. Also you don't necessarily need to apply for a graduate entry eng job, there are plenty of engineering jobs out there. Have a look, start applying start emailing for info to firms asking if 2:2 would be a hindrance.

What work experience do you have, the more the better. In fact with enough that 2:2 will be meaningless.

It's BEng and if it matters, I just missed a 2:1 by 1.4%. And regarding the abroad thing, I'm originally from Germany but living in London now, so would that be helpful in finding work in a German speaking country? I honestly would prefer that over the UK.

Have any advice on how to apply abroad? Should I go straight to companies' websites or is there a website for finding jobs abroad? I might sound less knowledgeable in this regard, but any help would be highly appreciated!

I'm not sure this is right. Most engineering firms require 2:1 these days. And on top of that quite a few require masters. There are some that accept 2:2s though and yes what's you've got the job, won't matter really your degree classification.

Undertaking a masters might be an advantage here OP.

Are these companies in South Asia international companies that operate in the UK? Because it's always a good bet asking companies for jobs that you have already done work experience for.

Going abroad to work for a bit might help, there's more engineering jobs outside of UK, and having got a good degree at a good uni would be attractive. Once you've done a bit of work and got the experience, then you could easily come back to the UK. Maybe work in South Asia for the companies you've done work experience for?

I've also heard unis bump up degree classifications if you're only a bit out? Have you talked to the uni about it?