What about job prospects?

Job prospects are excellent! It should be shown in the following points:
The number of newcomers in the civil engineering in Germany has during the years vigorously declined. In 2001 the number of newcomers has stabilized, but on a very low level! The information is for the whole building industry alerting. Since 1997/1990 the number of newcomers in all kinds of universities declined at 40 %. It is especially dramatic in technical colleges and universities, where future managers are educated. This group of beginners has declined at almost 60 % in whole Germany in the considered period of time.

The major reason for the loss of applicants for a place at the universities are mostly negative headlines about the decline of building activity or the spectacular failures, but not the number of unemployed engineers. It is true, that the building branch has to put up with the reduction of investments. But that fact could not really surprise, because the reintegration of East Germany caused an unusual building boom, which had to fade away inevitably. The negative development, which was purely a German problem – in Europa and the whole world the figures are quite different – is in the meantime to the greatest possible extent abated.

The fact remains, that each 12th employee in Germany is directly or indirectly engaged in the building branch. The building industry remains a key national industry. With a 14 % share in the gross domestic product it is one of the most important branches of industry in Germany. However the building branch is at structural change, which demands a unanimous notion of all engineering experts and especially long-termed highly qualified personnel, it means civil engineers, who graduate from universities.

In the meantime the reduction of the number of beginners in civil engineering has forced all affected future employers to think about solutions. Newspapers wrote about the suggestion to give green cards to civil engineers, because inspite of the relatively large number of graduates and at the same time weakened economic situation of the building industry all graduates with a diploma were always employed in the labour market. Because the number of graduates will decline in the next 5 years dramatically, already now a big gap between the demand for civil engineers and the number of graduates is emerging.

Those who are now starting to study civil engineering, will find after their graduation a job mark, which could not be better!