48 monthsProgramme duration
20,080 GBPTuition Fee/year
3Scholarships
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Engineering - General
Degree
BSc
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Our BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying provides you with the knowledge and skills to provide clients of the construction industry with financial, contractual, and technical advice ensuring they receive value for money from the projects they invest in and the built assets they construct.
You’ll learn the fundamental elements of building construction before focusing on quantity surveying practice and learning how to manage the cost and legal elements of a project.
This industry-focused degree will ensure you have the knowledge, leadership, and management skills necessary to work as a professional quantity surveyor, involved in all stages of the design and construction process. This could include providing advice on business strategy, working with architects and design consultants, through to overseeing the onsite construction phase until completion of a built asset.
Reasons to study this programme:
- Global Perspective: Opportunity to study at Heriot-Watt’s campus in Malaysia through the Go Global programme.
- Expert faculty: Learning will be informed by research-active architectural engineers, civil and structural engineers, construction professionals, industry-leaders, and academics.
- Supported learning: Delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, laboratory practicals, projects, and field trips and be assessed by coursework, examinations and a project while receiving support and feedback throughout the programme.
- Professional accreditation: Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), giving employers confidence in the quality of this programme and help graduates gain a competitve edge in the industry and job market.
- World-class facilities: Gain access to specialist equipment, computing software and labs, including a immersive virtual reality software, a geotechnics lab, a building services lab and more.
- Applied learning: Opportunity to gain practical experience in a week-long field course, providing hands-on construction working alongside professional engineers and tradesmen to construct scaled down versions of buildings, bridges, dams, and other engineering structures from all around the world.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Engineering - General
Degree
BSc
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Our BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying provides you with the knowledge and skills to provide clients of the construction industry with financial, contractual, and technical advice ensuring they receive value for money from the projects they invest in and the built assets they construct.
You’ll learn the fundamental elements of building construction before focusing on quantity surveying practice and learning how to manage the cost and legal elements of a project.
This industry-focused degree will ensure you have the knowledge, leadership, and management skills necessary to work as a professional quantity surveyor, involved in all stages of the design and construction process. This could include providing advice on business strategy, working with architects and design consultants, through to overseeing the onsite construction phase until completion of a built asset.
Reasons to study this programme:
- Global Perspective: Opportunity to study at Heriot-Watt’s campus in Malaysia through the Go Global programme.
- Expert faculty: Learning will be informed by research-active architectural engineers, civil and structural engineers, construction professionals, industry-leaders, and academics.
- Supported learning: Delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, laboratory practicals, projects, and field trips and be assessed by coursework, examinations and a project while receiving support and feedback throughout the programme.
- Professional accreditation: Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), giving employers confidence in the quality of this programme and help graduates gain a competitve edge in the industry and job market.
- World-class facilities: Gain access to specialist equipment, computing software and labs, including a immersive virtual reality software, a geotechnics lab, a building services lab and more.
- Applied learning: Opportunity to gain practical experience in a week-long field course, providing hands-on construction working alongside professional engineers and tradesmen to construct scaled down versions of buildings, bridges, dams, and other engineering structures from all around the world.
Admission Requirements
- Highers ABBB (over two sittings).
- A-Levels BCC.
- International Baccalaureate 28 points.
- BTEC Extended Diploma MMM.
- HNC C in graded unit.
- Please check that you meet our University-wide National 5/GCSE (or equivalent) English and Maths requirements.
Minimum entry requirements *
- Highers BBBC (over two sittings).
- A-Levels BCC.
- International Baccalaureate 28 points.
- BTEC Extended Diploma MMM.
- HNC C in graded unit.
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