BSc in Real Estate Management

Why choose this course?

Knowledge of real estate is relevant to the properties we live in, work in and spend our leisure time in. If you're interested in becoming a real estate professional or chartered surveyor, this course is ideal.

Centred around the property life cycle, you'll study valuation, law, estate agency and asset management, as well as economics, planning and development, business management and accounting principles. Your studies will reflect the need for responsibly managed and sustainable environments.

Through connections and close links to industry professionals and firms, this course ensures you can hit the ground running when you start a work placement or graduate job.

Please note the change in course title: This course previously ran as ‘Real Estate Management with Business Experience BSc (Hons)' until 2021. For 2022 entry onwards, it is named ‘Real Estate Management BSc (Hons)'.

Reasons to choose Kingston University

• This degree is fully accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). If you wish to work towards a qualification as a chartered surveyor, this degree fulfils the academic requirements.
• Active liaison with industry professionals and academic mentoring ensures that after three years, you'll have both a degree and the practical understanding that employers are looking for.
• Through practical assessments and blended learning, you'll get to study commercial real estate management first-hand.

Accreditation

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

This degree carries full accreditation from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) – the leading source of land, property, construction and related environmental knowledge – under its university partnership scheme, ensuring that what you learn is relevant to the industry.

To qualify as a chartered surveyor, you must:

• gain an RICS-approved academic qualification, such as a degree from Kingston; and
• successfully complete structured training, which ends in an assessment of your competence to practice (APC).

We are actively involved in APC, including preparation courses, and several staff members are RICS assessors. This means that Kingston can help you from the start of your undergraduate degree right through to your registration as a chartered surveyor.

Chartered status is available within this course in the following Pathways: validation, commercial property practice, planning and development and residential property.

With business experience

This degree comes 'with business experience', which includes the following:

• The Business Readiness Programme develops your business skills and qualities so that you hit the ground running on the first day of your work internship or graduate job.
• Business Practice gives you the opportunity to gain valuable, real-life and hands-on experience. In the second year, from May, you will gain a minimum of three months' hands-on experience from a choice of:
• A working internship where you will work within a business in a role linked to your degree or area of interest. This work experience is invaluable on your CV in helping to secure a job after you graduate.
• A University-based module, which brings a 'real-life' project into the classroom. Through a 'consultancy in practice' or 'entrepreneurship' module you will work alongside your peers, with the support of your lecturers, to develop your own business or find solutions for a 'live' business project.
  • A working internship where you will work within a business in a role linked to your degree or area of interest. This work experience is invaluable on your CV in helping to secure a job after you graduate.
  • A University-based module, which brings a 'real-life' project into the classroom. Through a 'consultancy in practice' or 'entrepreneurship' module you will work alongside your peers, with the support of your lecturers, to develop your own business or find solutions for a 'live' business project.

This course, 'with business experience', aims to increase your employability and future career success. You'll graduate from this degree with both the knowledge from a three-year degree as well as three months' direct business or research experience, helping you to stand out from the crowd in the future.