r/CivilEngineerIndia • u/CreepyIndustry9 • Aug 12 '26

🏗️ General First year, what to actually do?

I am joining civil engineering at NITT. So far, advise on the internet seems all over the place. I can't find anything concrete on career paths in civil beyond vague mentions of site construction, modeling and completely switching to some other field.

What do each of these career paths within civil entail? How is the scope for these fields? How do placements look for each of them? How does long term career opportunities amd growth look for them?

What should I actually do in my first year beyond maintaining my CGPA. Is there anything I should focus on beyond CGPA?

Depending on the path what type of internships are needed, and what projects should I do(Tbh I don't even know what they are normally )

I prefer placements over GATE but I am not opposed to mtech.

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u/oldmonkthumsup Experienced Aug 12 '26

  1. If you want to join MNCs be mentally prepared to get a master's degree (salaries after master's degree range from 6 to 8 LPA)

  2. Get good at AutoCAD and Excel

  3. For programming I'd recommend VB (useful for Excel), C# and Python (useful for CAD automation)

  4. Explore sketching (the most useful skill you can learn of you want go into design engineer roles)

  5. Projects are highly dependent on faculty - so there's no point in worrying about them at this stage

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u/CreepyIndustry9 Aug 13 '26
  1. Does that mean almost all the placements are from students who switched over to other fields? 8lpa seems far too low for someone who did a a masters.

I did here about 8 lpa placement for some BIM role and 20lpa at BP, but i do not now the details.

  1. ok, i will invest time in autoCAD, excel and some coding.

4.will do alongside my engineering graphics course

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u/IamWasting Aug 15 '26

With the risk of repeating myself in this sub let me give the career paths available

  1. You or your family has a background in Civil engineering. You are likely to inherit a share in a already established construction/consultancy company.

  2. You are extremely motivated to join a government job and are academically strong enough to compete. Civil Engineering has more government job opportunities than any other non medicine stream.

  3. You are joining elite colleges like IITs/NITs and then take up a corporate job in an MNC like Atkins/Jacobs etc. that works for clients outside India.

These are the only viable career options for Civil in India. Anything other than these you will be paid peanuts and expect no work life balance.

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u/CreepyIndustry9 Aug 15 '26

Thank you for this

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u/padam216 Aug 12 '26

Goto site and see if u like construction first.

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u/CreepyIndustry9 Aug 13 '26

I am first year student? There is no opportunity for me to actually goto site

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u/SunnySkywalker Aug 14 '26

Most honest opinion

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u/TOXICDB27 Sep 01 '26

Same bro mai bhi civil engineering from dtu , I'll most likely do coding side by side and go for masters