Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management
With rapid urbanisation, quantity surveys are in global demand, playing a pivotal role in the construction industry. Flex your studies to suit your schedule and career goals with full- or part-time study options, a sandwich year, or work experience during the holidays.
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Key Course Details
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UCAS Code
K242
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Start Date
September
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Location
Pontypridd
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£9,535*
International students
£16,200*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
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UCAS Code
K243
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Start Date
September
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Location
Pontypridd
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£9,535*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
Develop the infrastructure of tomorrow with our accredited degree. Grow your skills and take the lead in your quantity surveying and commercial management career.
DESIGNED FOR
You’ll be someone who enjoys problem-solving and has a keen eye for detail. You might already have a background in the sector or be on the lookout for a course that will boost your job prospects. We’ll provide a broad introduction to the industry, then dive into quantity surveying as the course continues.
Accredited by
- Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
Career paths
- Contractor quantity surveyor
- Professional quantity surveyor
- Commercial manager
- Estimator
- Cost manager
Skills taught
- Project planning and management
- Leadership
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Critical thinking
- Problem-solving
- Cost control
- Cost planning
- Quantification and costing
- Contract management
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Course Highlights
Module Overview
You’ll learn everything you need to know for a career in quantity surveying . Develop your critical thinking and problem-solving skills as you learn from industry professionals and work on real-life briefs.
Year One
Built Environment Law
Built Environment Economics
Built Environment Principles
Digital Technologies
Development and Society
Construction Technology
Year Two
Measurement
Tendering & Costing
Contract Management Practice
BIM & Data Management
Project Management and Professional Practice
Advanced Construction Technology
Year Three
Built Environment Dissertation
Construction Cost Management
Commercial Management and Enterprise
Advanced Measurement
Sustainability and Decarbonisation for the Built Environment
Your first year is shared with our other construction courses – real estate, building surveying and construction project management. Together you’ll learn the fundamentals before undertaking more specialist modules in years 2 and 3. At the end of year 1 you will have the opportunity to go on placement to see how what you’ve learned translates into real-world practice.
Built Environment Law
Learn about the wide range of laws applicable to the UK construction industry and the built environment.
Built Environment Economics
Get to grips with the numbers behind construction. Understand the general economy and built environment economy; develop your understanding of economic theory.
Built Environment Principles
Explore the concept of the built environment and the impact construction has on it.
Digital Technologies
Use a 3D laser scanner, laser measurer, drone and VR headsets as you survey, draw, measure and analyse.
Development and Society
Discover how space and the built environment evolve. Consider how development is constrained and challenged through social, political and geographical processes.
Construction Technology
Your introduction to the function, performance fundamentals and common construction techniques used for the major components of domestic dwellings.
In your second year, you’ll explore built environment law, construction technology and build on your project management skills. You’ll learn about costings, contracts and data management. Take advantage of a work experience placement to hone your skills.
Measurement
Understand the technique of measurement (from drawn information) and its application into Bills of Quantities as used by various members of the project team.
Tendering & Costing
Study factors that affect the construction cost of a development site. Build your knowledge of tendering and estimating, such as rate calculations relating to projects.
Contract Management Practice
Develop your understanding of contract administration procedures related to the management of construction contracts in practice during pre- and post-contract stages.
BIM & Data Management
Use software packages involved within a BIM Project from design through to construction, and through its occupancy.
Project Management and Professional Practice
Build your skills in project management and professional practice and apply these in several different scenarios within the sector.
Advanced Construction Technology
Explore construction technology from its function, performance fundamentals and common construction techniques to understand the components of commercial buildings.
In your final year, you’ll delve into construction cost management and choose a topic for your final dissertation. This is where you will hone your knowledge and skills, to help you stand out to future employers and kickstart your journey towards an APC (Assessment of Professional Competence) qualification.
Built Environment Dissertation
Go deep into your research and follow your interests to produce a dissertation relevant to quantity surveying.
Construction Cost Management
Develop your understanding of the cost management process and analyse the techniques available for a construction project's financial success throughout its life cycle.
Commercial Management and Enterprise
Take on an industry-linked commercial management challenge to hone your management and business skills.
Advanced Measurement
Understand measurement of a more advanced nature (roofing, reinforced concrete, foundations/groundworks, masonry inter alia) following NRM2 measurement rules.
Sustainability and Decarbonisation for the Built Environment
Develop your awareness of the critical issues involved within environmental sustainability and the built environment.
Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
You’ll learn from quantity surveying industry professionals who bring their real-world expertise to this course. You’ll experience a mixture of learning styles, including lectures from subject experts, guest lectures, workshops, and attending conferences. Our teaching styles are all designed to help you secure a job after graduation. Assessments take the form of exams, coursework, report writing, and case studies. Some modules give you a choice of assessments from a set list – so you are in control.
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Teaching staff
Our teaching team are industry professionals who help bring concepts to life through real examples from their careers. Our teachers have been quantity surveyors, architects, building surveyors and lawyers – this vast experience is reflected in your learning as they prepare you for the real world. The team are enthusiastic about your future and are there to help you every step of the way. You’ll also be offered a personal academic coach for all your time studying with us, to help you organise your work and support you with any personal issues you might have.
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Placements and work experience
The site visits are a great way to see construction in action and help you begin to build a list of contacts in industry. Between your second and third year, you can take a sandwich year, where you’ll work on building sites, gathering relevant experience and making valuable connections. A dedicated careers placement officer will help you find these placements and can also help you find work experience opportunities during the holidays.
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Facilities
During your time at USW, you’ll have access to a dedicated built environment project room, transformative learning spaces and bespoke computer labs with the latest software, such as Revit, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Autodesk QTO, CostX, Synchro, and Navisworks. You can also take advantage of our latest digital technology including VR equipment, drones and thermal imaging cameras – all of which are increasingly used within construction. There is also currently a purpose-built building under construction on campus, where you can get involved in its design and apply theory to practice across your studies.
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98%
of USW Built Environment and Civil Engineering graduates are in employment and/or further study 15 months after graduation
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Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Accredited
RICS is a globally recognised and highly regarded professional body that promotes positive change in the built and natural environments.
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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
UCAS points: 96 (or above)
Typical qualification requirements:
- A Level: CCC to include a relevant subject
- BTEC: Merit Merit Merit in a relevant subject
- Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate: C in the Skills Challenge Certificate and CC at A Level with a relevant subject
- Access to HE: Pass the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 96 UCAS tariff points.
Additional requirements include:
The University normally requires a minimum 5 GCSEs including Mathematics/Numeracy and English at Grade C or Grade 4 or above, or their equivalent, but consideration is given to individual circumstances.
International applications welcomed:
We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages.
English language requirements
International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.
Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.
If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.
If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.
We're here to help
Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.
Fees and Funding
£9,535
per year*£16,200
per year*Additional Costs
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
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University Quality Assurance
At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.
If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.
How to apply
All applications for full-time undergraduate courses or foundation degrees should be made via UCAS. Take the next step: Apply through UCAS. You can apply to us directly for all part-time undergraduate courses, if you’re seeking advanced entry or you’re an international student. To apply directly, please choose the application form below for your preferred start date and mode of study (full-time or part-time.)
- September 2025 Full-time
- September 2025 Sandwich
- September 2025 Part-time
- September 2026 Full-time
- September 2026 Sandwich
- September 2026 Part-time
Advanced entry
If you already have a relevant qualification or experience related to the course you're applying for, you may be eligible to start at a later stage of the course. For example, students from partner colleges can ‘top up’ their qualifications to a degree by joining us in Year Two or Year Three of a course. This process is known as ‘advanced entry’, you can apply directly to the University for 'advanced entry' using the application forms provided above.
International admissions
International applicants can apply to us directly. If the University has an in-country team in your region, your application will be assigned to them for assistance.
Work, earn and learn!
This course is also available through Network75, a combined work and study route.
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