UWE Bristol - MSc Real Estate Management

UWE Bristol

MSc Real Estate Management

This well respected, internationally recognised, RICS-accredited course boasts strong industry links and puts you on the fast track to Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors membership. It's designed to help you develop the key skills you'll need to become highly employable.

Surveying is a stand-out profession - it's well respected, provides a good living, and offers the opportunity to work anywhere in the world. This course gives you a set of transferable skills that make you highly sought after in the job market, and delivers a programme of study to provide graduates of a non-associated degree with the core technical knowledge and skills that can lead to membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). As a student on this course, you will be able to gain free student membership of RICS.

Give your career a competitive advantage

You'll gain an advanced understanding of concepts in real estate valuation, appraisal, development and management, and learn how to apply the theory to the real world so you can pursue and develop your career. You'll also develop Master's level research and analysis skills.

Your Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) with RICS begins once you are in relevant employment. It's the fastest route to RICS chartered status for graduates in other disciplines you could achieve your APC within three years. The course is so well regarded in the industry, we're approached regularly by employers who want UWE graduates to come and work for them. The course is even developed with our partner employers, to ensure we produce graduates they want to hire.

Entry Requirements

  • We normally require an honours degree of 2.2 or above.
  • International and EU applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent).

Career Prospects

Our graduates go on to work in property and construction, with many of them employed by organisations such as JLL, Cushman & Wakefield, CBRE, Savills, NetworkRail, Allsops, YTL, Taylor Woodrow, GVA, Persimmon Homes, Valuation Office Agency, the Planning Inspectorate, Defence Estates, NHS Trusts, and various public landowning bodies, public sector organisations, local authorities and housing associations.

This course is supported by our consortium of partner employers who help us to develop our curriculum and contribute towards the resources we use in teaching. The consortium is composed of the top private sector employers in the industry. Find out more about our Real Estate Consortium.

Our award-winning careers service helps you develop your employment potential through career coaching, a vacancy service for internships, placements, jobs, global opportunities, volunteering and community activity plus support for entrepreneurial activity, and access to employer events.

Course Details

The course comprises 180 credits 120 taught and a further 60 for the dissertation.

Students work incrementally through the three stages and must pass all modules at each stage in order to progress to the next.

  • Real Estate Economics and Valuations

     

    - Develops your skills at reading property markets and understanding the related data and explores different methods of valuation.
  • Strategic Estate Management

     

    - Examines the role property plays in the economy, organisations and communities, and the importance of a strategic approach to managing property, aligning real estate and carrying out business strategies.
  • Real Estate Law

     

    - Covers the basic principles of real estate law and explores in further detail the law in areas best suited to your ambitions.
  • Real Estate Investment and Development

     

    - Examines the key areas of commercial real estate investment at portfolio level, and innovations in real estate investment, and the financial, fiscal, planning and other regulatory issues when creating residential and commercial property.
  • Managerial Finance for the Built Environment

     

    - Looks at one of the mandatory RICS competencies by giving you a firm grounding in the interpretation of published accounts and financial information. It also introduces you to management accounting.
  • Sustainability for the Built Environment -

     

    Delivered by a multi-disciplinary team to provide the foundation for understanding how sustainable development can be achieved in both new and existing developments from individual buildings to large-scale infrastructures and neighbourhoods.

Dissertation

This personal research project of 14,000 words is usually linked to an aspect of real estate that has a specific professional application or is of personal interest to you. You have the choice of submitting your dissertation in the April or September following completion of the taught modules.

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