MSc in Quantity Surveying
Kingston University
Key Information
Campus location
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
1 - 2 year
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
GBP 10,900 / per year **
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* there is no application deadline for postgraduate courses
** home full-time: £10,900 | international full-time: £16,600
Introduction
Why choose this course?
Quantity surveyors play a key role in the construction industry, ensuring that development costs are appropriately and accurately managed. Kingston University is a long-established Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors partnership university, and this course will equip you with the skills and knowledge to start you on a career that offers enormous scope for team working, travel and financial rewards.
Whatever your first degree, this course will help you apply your skills and abilities to the quantity surveying profession. Through project and teamwork, you will develop knowledge and understanding of procurement, construction contracts, construction economics, and cost planning. You will also be trained in research methodology. Through a dissertation (research project), you will be able to focus on an area of interest, gaining valuable research skills. You will develop a range of professional skills to prepare you for your career, including problem-solving and organisation, data collation, review and synopsis, time management and computing.
Reasons to choose Kingston University
- You will develop the core competencies required of a Chartered Quantity Surveyor.
- You will have the opportunity to participate in a field trip to a major national/international destination (students may be required to cover additional costs, such as travel).
- There is a focus on the EU and UK legal frameworks relating to construction, sustainable construction technology, and project management.
Accreditation
This course is fully accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).
The MSc programme delivered at our partner institutions is not currently accredited by the RICS or CIOB.
Admissions
Curriculum
What you will study
This conversion master provides an opportunity for graduates from disciplines other than surveying to convert their transferable skills and extend their abilities in a critical way to the quantity surveying profession. You will develop in-depth knowledge and understanding of procurement, construction contracts and their administration. You will acquire sound knowledge of construction economics and cost planning. The curriculum further places emphasis on the EU and UK legal framework relating to construction, sustainable construction technology and project management. In addition to the core taught modules, you will receive training on research methodology and undertake a dissertation (research project).
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.
For a student to go on placement they are required to pass every module the first time with no reassessments. It is the responsibility of individual students to find a suitable paid placement. Students will be supported by our dedicated placement team in securing this opportunity.
Modules
Core modules
- Applied Sustainable Construction Technology and Measurement
- Contract Law Administration and Practice
- Design Economics and Cost Planning
- Management Consultancy
- Dissertation
Optional modules
- Professional Placement
Please note
Optional modules only run if there is enough demand. If we have an insufficient number of students interested in an optional module, that module will not be offered for this course.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
After you graduate
Graduates have progressed to roles in organisations such as Mace, Laing O'Rourke, Trabur, Transport for London, Willmott Dixon and Wates.