The School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment offers a truly multidisciplinary education with a competitive edge.
Our courses will provide you with the practical skills, professional ability, knowledge and understanding to work in the thriving property and construction industries.
We provide innovative and challenging postgraduate courses in property and construction management, property development and investment and project management.
This broad portfolio gives us a competitive edge, allowing us to utilise and combine our extensive range of resources and expertise across the entire Built Environment sector.
All our courses combine the best of learning in technological, professional and managerial skills as well as research skills.
Postgraduate courses
We offer four MSc courses designed for students with first degrees in unrelated subjects who wish to pursue careers in the property and construction industry:
MSc Building Surveying
MSc Planning and Development
MSc Quantity Surveying
MSc Real Estate
Whatever your first degree these four courses offer an accredited route in to the Real Estate and Construction profession and offer an exciting and comprehensive combination of features:
• available to study full-time or part-time one day a week
• accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
• optional international field trip
• recently updated and vocationally focused
Each course provides broad-based insights into the industries and then allows students to develop a specialism and expertise in their chosen field of study through course-specific modules.
Graduates will be equipped with a blend of knowledge, understanding, skills, qualities and attributes that will enable them to pursue and develop careers in the real estate and construction professions on an international level.
“The course was ideal because I came from a non-cognate background wanting to become a project manager in the construction industry.”
Paavan Popat, MSc Quantity Surveying
“I’d recommend the course as it gives a broad introduction to the property industry and then later enables specialisation depending on which if the four courses you are enrolled on.”
Lucinda Hancock, MSc Real Estate
The School also offers courses for professionals looking to develop and progress their career opportunities
MSc Construction Management
Designed in consultation with professional bodies and employers, this course develops skills and attitudes with regard to construction, culture and business environment.
• Accredited by RICS and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
• Optional international study visit
• Flexible study options – full-time through to distance learning
“I will now be able to manage project in a more efficient way and I feel I am a specialist in the management of construction projects.”
Eshan Anaashari, MSc Construction Management
MSc Project Management (Construction)
This course is specifically designed to enhance the vocational and intellectual knowledge and skills of mid-career professionals or recent graduates who wish to further their careers in the field of construction project management.
The distance-learning and part-time study options have been structured to enable successful study while students are fully employed.
• Accredited by RICS and the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES)
• Flexible study options – full-time through to distance learning
• Dedicated postgraduate resources
“I would recommend the course to any project manager as I believe it adds to the skills that are gained though experience alone.”
Richard Davies, MSc Project Management (Construction)
Find out more at www.ntu.ac.uk/courses
RICS accredited Masters
Taught in partnership with Sheffield Hallam at locations in Central and Eastern Europe:
MSc Real Estate Construction and Development
MSc Real Estate Investment and Management
Find out more at www.ntu.ac.uk/realestateprague
Postgraduate open evenings
Find out more at www.ntu.ac.uk/openday
Strong commercial and international networks
Our courses continue to be updated to adapt to the rapidly changing requirements of the industry. We have close links with industry and have recently completed a round of consultation with employers and the profession to further enhance our existing portfolio.
We also have strong international links through delivery of programmes abroad, work placements, our staff and our graduates.
Specialist staff
Our property and construction management lecturers have an excellent reputation for being approachable with an open-door policy. They are experts in their fields, providing excellent teaching and first-class technical support.
Academics are actively involved in ground-breaking research and are prominent within the property and construction industries and are actively involved with relevant professional bodies.
RICS partnership accredited courses
- MSc Building Surveying
Specialisms:
Building Surveying, Commercial Property Practice, Residential Property Practice, Residential Survey & Valuation
Study Modes:
Full Time, Part Time
- MSc Construction Management
Specialisms:
Quantity Surveying & Construction
Study Modes:
Distance Learning, Full Time, Part Time
- MSc Planning and Development
Specialisms:
Commercial Property Practice, Planning & Development, Residential Property Practice, Valuation
Study Modes:
Full Time, Part Time
- MSc Project Management (Construction)
Specialisms:
Project Management, Quantity Surveying & Construction
Study Modes:
Distance Learning
- MSc Quantity Surveying
Specialisms:
Project Management, Quantity Surveying & Construction
Study Modes:
Full Time, Part Time
- MSc Real Estate
Specialisms:
Commercial Property Practice, Property Finance & Investment, Residential Property Practice, Residential Survey & Valuation, Valuation
Study Modes:
Full Time, Part Time
- MSc Real Estate Construction and Development
Specialisms:
Commercial Property Practice, Quantity Surveying & Construction, Residential Property Practice, Valuation
Study Modes:
Flexible Learning
Taught by a combination of block release and "Blackboard" delivery in Central and Eastern Europe.
- MSc Real Estate Investment and Management
Specialisms:
Commercial Property Practice, Residential Property Practice, Valuation
Study Modes:
Flexible Learning
Taught by a combination of block release and "Blackboard" delivery in Central and Eastern Europe.