Structural engineering belongs to one of the six two disciplines under architectural and civil engineering. It mainly studies the internal force and deformation of houses and buildings under the influence of various daily environments and extreme conditions, so as to increase the safety of buildings. Generally, colleges and universities with master's qualifications in architecture and civil engineering will offer secondary research direction of master's degree in structural engineering. Since the development of structural engineering specialty, the gold content of structural engineering professionals trained by various institutions is uneven, and the rankings of structural engineering specialty and master of structural engineering are roughly as follows.

The top ten institutions in structural engineering are Tongji University, Beijing Jiaotong University, Southeast University, Tianjin University, Xi University of Architecture and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Zhejiang University, Beijing University of Technology, South China University of Technology and Southwest Jiaotong University. Tongji University and architectural and civil engineering Department of Tianjin University, as national key departments, have strong scientific research strength, and their subordinate structural engineering majors rank first and second in China. Tongji University, in particular, has set up the major of architectural and civil engineering since its establishment, which has a history of one hundred years, and the major of structural engineering has been ranked first for many years since its establishment.

The ranking of master of structural engineering is basically the same as that of structural engineering. The top ten institutions are Tianjin University, Tongji University, Beijing Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, Southeast University, Dalian University of Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Xi University of Architecture and Technology and South China University of Technology. In the training of structural engineering professionals, Tianjin University and Tongji University rank first and second with their strong academic strength and strong faculty, and send a large number of structural engineering professionals to China every year. In the 2008 Olympic Games, the design of the Bird's Nest was unique. Among them, China designer Li Xinggang graduated from Tianjin University with a master's degree in structural engineering.