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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 7,290 - ≈ € 12,280 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Kingston University
The construction industry is booming nationally and across the globe, with quantity surveyors playing a key role in ensuring that development costs are appropriately and accurately managed. Kingston University is a long-established RICS partnership university, and this course (which is accredited by RICS) 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.
You will develop knowledge and skills in the core competencies required of the Chartered Quantity Surveyor. You will gain an understanding of the whole of the construction process, especially the legal and financial implementation and control of contracts. You will learn how to ensure that, together with the rest of the professional team, building projects are completed to budget loss of time and quality.
To prepare you for this challenge, you study modules covering technology and law as well as several aspects of management, from contract administration to business and financial planning and construction-related economics. In addition to the core taught modules, you will receive research methods training and undertake a research-based project.
Contents
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list.
Core modules
* Business Consultancy
* Construction Law
This module gives you an in depth knowledge of standard contract forms. You cover:
* the different types of construction contract; and
* the legal duties and responsibilities of the construction professional.
* Economics of Construction
This module builds on your understanding of economic principles in an applied way. It covers:
* how to apply estimating, cost planning and pricing techniques to contracts in a critical way; and
* the economic context within which such techniques are applied.
* European Law
* European project
One of the highlights of the programme is a week long field trip to a major European city. This normally takes place at the end of the Spring term. This module provides the opportunity for students to work in groups and undertake a major task involving various aspects of their study and enabling them to integrate learning from across several modules.
Additionally, students undertake individual work to ensure that they gain the ability to reflect and to deepen their technical knowledge in an aspect of their studies. The module is delivered primarily through the field trip and assessed by reports, both group and individual.
* Procurement and Financial Management
* Project Management
* Sustainable Construction Technology
Research modules
* Conference Paper
This half module provides students with the opportunity to devise and deliver an original piece of research in open forum and thereby helps them to extend the ethos of research culture into their subsequent professional work, and to encourage continuing professional development and life-long learning. The module requires them to develop an aspect of their dissertation or master's project (as applicable) into a short conference paper and presentation and to deliver this. Assessment is of both the written paper and the oral presentation.
* Dissertation or Project
* Dissertation or Masters Project Proposal
This module provides you with practice of devising an original primary research strategy for a specific research project, appropriate to satisfying the course objectives.
In so doing it ensures that you explore and critically evaluate primary research methodology and proposals. You prepare a well-developed research proposal, which will be preparatory to undertaking your dissertation or masters project. You are supported by workshops, seminars and tutorials.
* Research Concepts
Assessment
Essays, seminar papers and presentations, case studies, the major research-based project or dissertation, and a conference paper that you will present at the Annual Masters Conference.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
- Applicants should normally have a 2:1 or 1st class degree. This can be in any discipline, although a related subject is an advantage.
- Some experience of working in the industry would also be useful.
- International students must have an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent.
Interviews
We normally invite applicants for an interview prior to selection. We can make alternative arrangements for international students based overseas.
Prior learning - AP(E)L
Applicants with prior qualifications and learning may be exempt from appropriate parts of a course in accordance with the University's policy for the assessment of prior learning and prior experiential learning.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
Accreditation
Many of the courses that we run are accredited and recognised by relevant professional bodies within their respective fields. As part of our commitment to providing quality, relevant courses we seek accreditation and recognition wherever possible. In fact the Higher Education Funding Council of England awarded us a quality rating for 'Excellence in teaching'.
Kingston Business School is also one of an elite number of UK business schools with Association of MBA accreditation of our MBA courses. Plus we have received EPAS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development for several of our postgraduate and undergraduate business programmes; only the second UK business school to receive this accreditation.
To view a full list of our accreditations, please visit our website.
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