Course Description
The course is intended for graduates working, or intending to work, in the construction industry offering advice on project feasibility, methods for financing and procuring construction work and financial management of the design and construction process within consultant firms, client organisations or contracting companies.
Applicants should have an interest in construction cost management and the motivation to pursue an intensive route to professional qualifications. Course content covers the skills required of the practicing quantity surveyor.
Entry Requirements
Conversion
- A minimum of a 2:1 Honours degree, the subject area does not matter as number of students undertake the course as part of a career change
For Surveying graduates/professionals
- A minimum of a 2:1 Honours degree in a Surveying subject, or
- Corporate membership of a professional body concerned with property or construction, for example, CIOB, RIBA, RTPI, CIOH or other relevant body of equal standing.
APEL/APL
- An applicant who is offered a place on the course may seek credit for recent prior academic qualification or professional experience. The applicant should expect to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Course Director and Module Coordinator substantial relevant knowledge and skills at least equivalent to Level 6 or Level 7 as appropriate to those modules for which credit is being sought. Applications should be made before the commencement of the semester in which the particular modules are being offered.
- Please note however, that if you are granted any APEL/APL which allows you module exemption you will be ineligible for a Student Finance England Postgraduate Loan. If you have already started to receive loan instalments and you are then granted module exemption, the University has a duty to inform SFE that you are no longer eligible for the loan and no further loan payments will be made.
Fees
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Module Details
Core modules
- Project evaluation
- Construction contract administration
- Construction law
- Procurement and management of construction
- Economics and finance for construction
- Dissertation (MSc only)
Additional modules (conversion course only)
- Construction
- Measurement, documentation and estimating
- Institutional and legal context for construction
Optional modules
Please be aware that option selection is subject to availability.
- Behavioural finance
- Building control
- Building information modelling and collaborative working
- Health and safety management in construction
- History of architecture and construction
- International real estate and construction
- Legal resolution of property and construction disputes
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