Real Estate MSc
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Developed and delivered in collaboration with world-leading researchers, internationally recognised real estate firms, practitioners and professional bodies, the course offers a fast-track route into the surveying and built environment professions. You will work on real-life assessments and projects to gain cutting-edge knowledge and professional skills.
The practical based learning and hands-on experience ensures that you will be fully competent and ready for the world of work upon graduation. The commercial and professional partnerships at the heart of this Master’s course give you the opportunity to immediately network with industry contacts, learn from sector experts and have access to the latest professional development opportunities.
Accredited by the RICS, the MSc Real Estate provides all the academic theory and professional knowledge you need to become a built environment professional. We consistently ensure that over 95% of our students are employed within 6 months of the course ending, and most before this. Of these students, 85% are employed within the top 20 recognised international real estate firms. A median starting salary for graduate surveyors working in the built environment is around £26,900, going up to £48,000 once fully qualified.
You are welcome to join this change direction Master’s degree from any discipline or academic background. The course is geared towards professionals or graduates who are keen to gain Chartered Surveyor status or pursue a fast track route into the property and construction industry.
Developed and delivered in collaboration with world-leading researchers, internationally recognised real estate firms, practitioners and professional bodies, the course offers a fast-track route into the surveying and built environment professions. You will work on real-life assessments and projects to gain cutting-edge knowledge and professional skills.
The practical based learning and hands-on experience ensures that you will be fully competent and ready for the world of work upon graduation. The commercial and professional partnerships at the heart of this Master’s course give you the opportunity to immediately network with industry contacts, learn from sector experts and have access to the latest professional development opportunities.
Accredited by the RICS, the MSc Real Estate provides all the academic theory and professional knowledge you need to become a built environment professional. We consistently ensure that over 95% of our students are employed within 6 months of the course ending, and most before this. Of these students, 85% are employed within the top 20 recognised international real estate firms. A median starting salary for graduate surveyors working in the built environment is around £26,900, going up to £48,000 once fully qualified.
You are welcome to join this change direction Master’s degree from any discipline or academic background. The course is geared towards professionals or graduates who are keen to gain Chartered Surveyor status or pursue a fast track route into the property and construction industry.
Level of Study
Postgraduate
Mode of Study
16 Months Full-Time
2 other options available
Department
Architecture and Built Environment
Location
City Campus, Northumbria University
City
Newcastle
Start
January 2025
Fees
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Our commercially focused modules cover the key concepts in real estate. They include:
We focus on the physical built environment (how it is constructed and adapted over time) and the business of the built environment e.g., how the built environment is utilised and how value is managed and derived.
We also embed core skills around critical evaluation, problem solving, project management, negotiation, communication and decision-making and collaboration. This means that you have the requirements to pursue any career associated with the built environment.
We embed the latest technological innovations to make sure our graduates have the skills to plan, design, construct, manage and value buildings. Whenever possible we use methods relevant to industry such as presentations, report-writing and mock client meetings to assess student work. Technology driven Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Automated Valuation Models (AVM) are emerging pillars in our teaching.
The course concludes in an independent dissertation in a related specialist area of your choice. There are no examinations for this course.
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Your workshops, seminars and lectures will all be timetabled on a Monday and Wednesday, making it easier to plan fitting in your study with your other commitments.
For a full-time Master’s programme we expect a commitment of around 35 hours per week (these include the above hours of study on campus/online learning). With our City Campus Library and the University Library Digital Commons open 24/7 during term-time, you are free to do your self-directed study when you choose and fit your studies around your life.
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Lecturers balance their teaching and research with external industry-related projects to inform your learning. This approach creates a research-rich, practice-based environment which will develop your critical abilities, problem solving skills and lay a firm foundation for a career in the property industry.
Our strong links with industry give you the opportunity to work on live projects as part of your course. Industry professionals also regularly deliver guest lectures and share their experiences.
Dr Paul Greenhalgh
Head of Subject / Associate Professor
Cara Hatcher
Senior Lecturer
Dr Carolyn Gibbeson
Assistant Professor
Dr Kevin Muldoon-Smith
Programme Leader
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You will find the latest technologies to support you in our specialist laboratories and studios. Throughout your time at Northumbria, you will be able to survey, visualise, model and take your ideas from the course, out into the world around you. You will also benefit from dedicated project space and study areas for group and individual work in the Built Environment Hub.
The programme team have also developed an agile approach to technology enabled learning (TEL) which you can use on and off campus. This includes specialist software and online access to module information, key texts, podcasts, and a range of teaching-related materials to support active learning.
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Specialist research areas include sub-national governance and spatial planning, professional access and inclusion, property taxation, property market modelling, adaptive re-use, design guidelines, automated valuation models, building information modelling. This research has gone on to have a real impact in society and practice. Recent highlights include contributions to Government Select Committee Enquires into the impact of business rates on business rate retention and the future of offices for the British Council for Offices.
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An MSc in Real Estate at Northumbria has excellent rates of employment and opportunity, with 95% of our students being employed within 6 months of the course ending and most securing a job before this. This is undoubtedly due to our long established relationships with employers in the global real estate industry, including Cushman & Wakefield, CBRE, JLL, Savills, Knight Frank, Avison Young and Santander
Working with these employers throughout your course will give you invaluable sector knowledge and connections that will benefit your career in the future. A host of career paths will be available to you which will utilise the RICS competencies that you have gained throughout all of your modules. The kind of roles you can expect to be prepared for include; surveying roles in commercial real estate, valuation, corporate real estate, planning and development, investment and finance, urban planning, banking and investment sector, project management, construction and town and city management.
Our current graduates work for corporate financial institutions, government organisations, local authorities, government and private clients across the UK and further afield in roles such as surveying, investment, property valuation, planning and development, and property management.
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Applicants should normally have:
A minimum of a 2:2 honours degree in any subject.
International qualifications:
If you have studied a non UK qualification, you can see how your qualifications compare to the standard entry criteria, by selecting the country that you received the qualification in, from our country pages. Visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/yourcountry
English language requirements:
International applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent*).
*The university accepts a large number of UK and International Qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades you will need in our English Language section. Visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/englishqualifications
Applicants should normally have:
A minimum of a 2:2 honours degree in any subject.
International qualifications:
If you have studied a non UK qualification, you can see how your qualifications compare to the standard entry criteria, by selecting the country that you received the qualification in, from our country pages. Visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/yourcountry
English language requirements:
International applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent*).
*The university accepts a large number of UK and International Qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades you will need in our English Language section. Visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/englishqualifications
Full UK Fee: £11,250
Full EU Fee: £17,500
Full International Fee: £17,500
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ADDITIONAL COSTS
There are no Additional Costs
Full UK Fee: £11,750
Full EU Fee: £18,250
Full International Fee: £18,250
Scholarships and Discounts
ADDITIONAL COSTS
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