This fast-track course allows graduates from different disciplines to get the real estate skills needed to become chartered surveyors.
Learn the skills you’ll need for a successful career in real estate.
Benefit from an interdisciplinary, international applied-learning project.
Gain a qualification accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
Learn from industry-trained academics, leading firms and successful graduates.

This course combines a unique blend of academic learning and practical application. You’ll graduate with the ability to meet the professional and ethical standards required by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Live projects

The course includes practical, client-focused projects where you’ll visit existing buildings and sites, and complete technical and professional tasks. These are opportunities for you to apply creative solutions that draw on your developing knowledge.

Field trips

During your international applied project, you’ll work with other students of the built environment programme. This will increase your understanding of other roles within the profession, helping you practise the day-to-day interactions of a chartered surveyor. Here you’ll also develop the essential skills and knowledge of a professional practitioner.

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

You’ll study areas including economics & the built environment, property law & professional context, valuation, evaluating building condition, advanced valuation & development and corporate real estate asset management. You’ll also complete a dissertation – an in-depth research project requiring a critical and evaluative approach to professional practice and theory, supported by an allocated dissertation supervisor.

You learn through

• lectures
• seminars
• presentations
• site visits
• coursework
• examinations
• phase tests
• reports
• group projects
• presentations
• dissertation
• an international applied project

We have a great track record of graduate employment. Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for

• Jones Lang LaSalle
• CBRE
• GVA
• Cushman & Wakefield
• Lambert Smith Hampton
• Savills
• Sanderson Weatherall
• Deloitte
• in-house corporate real estate departments
• smaller independent professional firms
• the public sector

 

Minimum 2:2 degree in any discipline or an equivalent professional qualification.

We welcome applications from candidates who may not meet the exact academic entry requirements but have significant relevant experience, on application you will be referred to our course leader, who will evaluate your experience, this may involve an informal conversation either in person or by other media

As a full-time student you are encouraged to obtain a period of pre-course professional work experience before joining.

If English is not your first language you typically need an IELTS 6.0 score with a minimum of 5.5 in all other skills or equivalent.

If your English language skill is currently below IELTS 6.0 we recommend you consider a Sheffield Hallam University Pre-sessional English course which will enable you to achieve an equivalent English score.

Important notice:

 

The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.

 

Final Year Compulsory modules
Module	Credits	Assessment
Advanced Valuation And Development	30	Coursework
Applied International Project	15	Coursework
Applied Research Methods And Dissertation	45	Coursework
Corporate Real Estate Asset Management	30	Coursework
Economics And The Built Environment	15	Exam
Evaluating Building Condition	15	Coursework
Property Law & Professional Context	15	Coursework
Valuation	15	Practical