BSc (Hons) Building Surveying (with Foundation Year)

Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), ensuring you gain the full range of professional and technical skills required, from converting buildings to performing surveys and valuations. Get hands-on by developing skills in all aspects of surveying buildings. Learn how to recognise and tackle defects, and identify technical problems in construction. Utilise our state-of-the-art facilities including industry standard equipment, AutoCAD Studios and testing and surveying labs. Engage in Live Briefs, designed with regional industry partners to give you incredible exposure to real-life building surveying problem-solving. Benefit from strong industry links with professional institutions, local firms and building surveying experts to increase your employability upon graduation.

Building surveyors advise clients about new builds, listed buildings and historic structures. Study at ARU, and learn how to evaluate the design, specification and performance of buildings. Develop skills in building inspection and analysis, and use industry-standard equipment to tackle technical problems in construction.

There are plenty of opportunities to get hands-on in specialist labs for materials and testing, environmental science and design, and surveying. Youll also work in our design and AutoCAD studios. You can choose to take a placement year as part of this course, putting your skills into practice in a real working environment. Together, youll go on site visits, attend talks given by professional experts, and learn how to manage projects. This puts you in a strong position for employment in this highly interesting and varied field. You have the option to study this course as a four-year degree with foundation year. In your first year you'll study with our partner, ARU College, on our Cambridge campus. In Years 2-4 you'll study in Chelmsford.

5 GCSEs at grade D, or grade 3, or above and evidence of two years post-GCSE study at Level 3.
If you have achieved at least grade E in one A level, or equivalent, you are exempt from the two years post-GCSE study requirement, but you still must meet the GCSE requirements.
Applicants who do not meet the two years post GCSE study at level 3 may be considered based on their satisfactory employment history, which must be a minimum of two years full time employment supported by employer evidence and deemed appropriate by the University for meeting the course of study applied for.
If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 5.5 (Academic level) or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University.