MSc Building Surveying
Full-time, Part-time
Location • City Campus
Subject area • Construction, building and surveying
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This is a fast-track conversion course for graduates from unrelated disciplines who want to become chartered building surveyors. The course is also suitable if you are a professional working in a property or surveying role and want to improve your skills and career prospects in residential and commercial building surveying or building control.
Building surveying is an expanding professional discipline dealing with the inspection, maintenance and refurbishment of existing buildings. The course includes practical laboratory and project work to improve your career prospects in the public and commercial sectors throughout the UK and overseas.
A key teaching resource is a University-owned Georgian terraced house. This is used for practical teaching sessions both in pathology and structural mechanics. This property has been adapted to open up its structure for inspection purposes. Industry professionals also use this resource for training purposes with the support of our teaching staff.
You benefit from a range of teaching, learning and assessment techniques. Intensive study weeks allow you to work on complex, professional briefs with other students. One of the modules is an international project which currently takes place in Shanghai with assistance from international surveying firms.
The majority of teaching takes place within a newly refurbished, dedicated building at our City Campus. The course is fully supported by online resources that allow students to learn flexibly in addition to face-to-face teaching.
We have recently bought high-tech non-destructive testing equipment including flexible endoscopes, borescopes and a thermal imaging camera for detecting heat loss that you can use in practical projects.
This course is designed to be adapted and updated, so that you are as fully prepared as possible for a successful career ahead. The postgraduate construction, building and surveying courses were first established with the MSc Property Appraisal and Management in 1991. Many of our former students are now in senior positions throughout the profession.
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Related courses
Full-time – one year
Part-time – two years
Start date – September
Complete the application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
2013/14 academic year
Full-time – typically £7,995
Part-time – typically £2,665 for year one and £5,330 for year two
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
2013/14 academic year
Typically £10,980 for the course
2014/15 academic year
Typically £11,250 for the course
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees, scholarships and bursaries see www.shu.ac.uk/international/fees
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