Building Surveying BSc (Hons)

Course Summary

You learn through

• field trips
• practical activities
• laboratory-based experiments
• real life development sites
• seminars
• site visits
• self-directed project work Applied learningWork placementsYou will have the opportunity to arrange a year-long work placement in between your second and third years.

This gives you a real-world experience to prepare you for your future career. You could work at one of the major national or regional surveying practices, local authorities, housing associations or loss adjusters. Your placement year usually contributes towards a graduate's professional experience requirement for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Assessment of Professional Competence.Live projectsWe have good links with local professional and voluntary groups with large property portfolios. They provide various building stock for case studies and project work, which centre on actual buildings with real clients. We also own a Georgian terraced house which had been adapted to an interactive teaching space. You will inspect under utilised University building assets so that the amount of site based work is maximised.Field tripsThere is a UK residential field trip in the first semester of the first year that promotes the course identity. You will also visit other UK cities such as Edinburgh, and attend a project-based visit to a major European city (recent students went to Lisbon in Portugal). There is a residential field trip in the first semester of the first year that allows you to nurture and develop the course identity. Additional costs may apply. You may also be able to study abroad as part of the Erasmus Programme.