The study program Engineering Structures at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with the degree Master of Science (M.Sc.) provides a deepening and practice- and research-oriented qualification for many fields of activity of construction engineering in the future.

In the Master's program the qualifications obtained in the Bachelor's program in the areas construction engineering, building materials and geotechnics are extended by a profound and in-depth knowledge, which is oriented directly at the real national and international requirements in research and practice. With regard to the different professional profiles for this specific deepening of the technical knowledge one of the below listed profiles has to be selected. In each of these profiles, essential basic qualifications for the entire construction engineering are obtained across all profiles, which are supplemented by further specific technical knowledge according to the respective professional profile.

By their comprehensive understanding of the relations between building materials, structural designs and construction techniques the graduates are competent to plan, to construct, to design, to build, to manage and to maintain all kind of buildings saving energy and resources. They can describe the behavior of conventional and innovative building materials and consider this for designing structures and connections. Based on this, they can derive the load-bearing and failure behavior of structures and structural element connections and they can assess their life span considering degradation processes as well as develop methods for their maintenance. Also, the graduates are able to analyse and evaluate materials and structures under the influence of building physical processes, such as heat and moisture exposure. Furthermore, they can analyse and evaluate the mechanic-hydraulic behavior of soils and rocks as well as the interaction of ground and building, and by that develop innovative technologies for the foundations of buildings and underground constructions.

Having passed the Master's program at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the graduates attained the scientific qualification for gaining a doctorate. They can develop new ideas and solutions for fundamental or also unusual problems, manage mostly independently research and application-oriented projects, work on scientific questions self-reliantly, as well as carry out the critical analysis, development and synthesis of new and complex ideas. Furthermore, they have the ability to communicate and to work together on the job with colleagues of different disciplines, to lead groups of experts of different disciplines as well as to mobilize the skills of others or to motivate others respectively.