BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying 48 months Undergraduate Programme By Heriot-Watt University |TopUniversities
Programme Duration

48 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

20,080 GBPTuition Fee/year

Scholarship

5Scholarships

Starting Month

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

169+
6+
28+
59+
79+
Standard entry 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.

4 Years
Sep

Tuition fees

Domestic
9,790 GBP
International
20,080 GBP

Scholarships

IMechE Scholarships (for Mechanical Engineers)

IMechE Scholarships (for Mechanical Engineers)
Master Bachelors Open

Value

$21800

Deadline

31 Aug 2026

Application requirements

QS Event Attendance is NOT required

Entry requirements

You must be admitted to this school to be awarded

International Merit Scholarship

International Merit Scholarship
Bachelors Master Open

Value

$2000

Deadline

30 Jun 2026

Application requirements

QS Event Attendance is NOT required

Entry requirements

You must be admitted to this school to be awarded

Heriot-Watt University Expenses Bursary

Heriot-Watt University Expenses Bursary
Bachelors Master Open

Value

$525

Deadline

31 Aug 2026

Application requirements

QS Event Attendance is NOT required

Entry requirements

You must be admitted to this school to be awarded

Heriot-Watt Sports Scholarships

Heriot-Watt Sports Scholarships
Master Bachelors Open

Value

25% tuition fee waiver

Deadline

31 Jul 2026

Application requirements

QS Event Attendance is NOT required

Entry requirements

You must be admitted to this school to be awarded

IMechE Scholarships (for Mechanical Engineers)

IMechE Scholarships (for Mechanical Engineers)
Bachelors Master Open

Value

$218000

Deadline

31 Aug 2026

Application requirements

QS Event Attendance is NOT required

Entry requirements

You must be admitted to this school to be awarded

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