MSc

Construction Project Management

Play your part in developing the infrastructure of tomorrow. Hone your skills and gain vital knowledge for a career in Construction Project Management.

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UCAS Code

Start Date

September 2027

Location

Pontypridd

Campus Code

A

UCAS Code

Start Date

September 2027

Location

Pontypridd

Campus Code

A


International students: £18,300*

How to apply Book an Open Evening

Course overview

Develop the skills and confidence to manage complex construction projects and respond to the changing needs of the built environment. You’ll gain practical experience while building your knowledge of leadership, sustainability and digital construction.

On this course, you’ll tackle realistic project challenges and work with industry data, consultancy-style projects and expert masterclasses. You’ll develop your ability to make evidence-based decisions, lead collaboratively and use digital construction technologies, including Building Information Modelling (BIM), while considering sustainability, ethical practice and the future of the industry. 

Accreditations

RICS
APM

This course is accredited by Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Association for Project Management (APM).

Why study this course?

Professionally Accredited

The Construction Project Management course is accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Direct Industry Relevance

As well as industry experienced staff who teach on the different modules, the course welcomes current professionals to speak about the issues they face on projects.

Global Career Prospects

There is a strong demand for construction project managers around the world, with good job stability and earning potential.

Flexible Course Design

Study part time or full time, allowing you the choice that best suits your circumstances. Course content is supplemented by online resources to allow more flexible learning.

What you'll study

Develop the skills you need to manage construction projects effectively.

You’ll explore project delivery, sustainability, leadership and professional practice while developing your understanding of the business and decision making involved in complex projects.

Enhance your understanding of how construction projects are shaped and delivered, from developing a business case and defining scope to creating project programmes. You’ll use planning software while exploring procurement, cost control, BIM, quality and lean construction.

Explore how sustainability, environmental policy and governance shape construction projects and professional decisions. You’ll examine carbon accounting, life cycle thinking and circular economy principles. Use real cases and evidence to assess sustainability challenges and develop practical, responsible responses.

Develop your leadership and communication skills for complex construction projects. You’ll explore negotiation, conflict management and stakeholder relationships, while learning how effective collaboration, risk management and BIM can support better decision making and project delivery. 

Build the professional judgement you’ll need to navigate complex construction projects and organisations. You’ll consider how legal, ethical and business decisions affect project outcomes, developing the confidence to communicate effectively and contribute to strategic decision making.

Put your knowledge into practice by investigating a research question linked to the built environment. With support from an academic supervisor, you’ll develop your research skills and produce a substantial project that demonstrates independent thinking and professional judgement.

We regularly review our courses to keep pace with changing skills and employer needs. If a review leads to significant changes, we’ll contact you to explain what’s changing for the coming year.

Teaching and Assessment

Teaching is designed to build your confidence as an independent practitioner, with opportunities to learn from academic research, industry expertise and digital construction technologies. You’ll also reflect on your learning and apply your knowledge to realistic project challenges.

You’ll learn through interactive teaching sessions, workshops and collaborative activities that bring construction project management into a practical context. Industry informed case studies, project scenarios and guest sessions will help you connect theory with professional practice. You’ll also use digital construction technologies, including Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Virtual Reality (VR), alongside independent study and reflection to develop your confidence and professional judgement. 

You’ll be assessed through a range of practical and written assignments designed to reflect professional construction project management. These may include reports, case studies, project simulations, presentations and collaborative tasks. You’ll receive regular feedback to support your progress, while your research project will allow you to apply your skills to a substantial independent piece of work. 

We encourage a hands-on approach to teaching. Students learn by doing, putting their theory into practice in immersive environments and real-life scenarios.  

Instead of just reading textbooks and listening to lectures, we'll ensure you have countless first-hand experiences and opportunities to get actively involved in your chosen profession, gaining practical skills that will prepare you for your future career.  

From hands-on projects and real-world simulations to industry collaborations working with real clients, tackling real problems, and developing the skills employers are looking for. We create graduates who are prepared for the future. People ready to build their careers. 

For added experience, you’ll use industry-standard facilities on campus. These include computing laboratories with engineering software such as Revit, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Autodesk QTO, CostX, Synchro, and Navisworks. 

You will also be introduced to the latest digital technologies such as drones, thermal imaging, Virtual and Augmented Reality. 

Course Leader

Darren Evans

Meet Darren Evans, Course Leader for MSc Construction Project Management. With over 20 years of experience in industry, his teaching is rooted in practical application and industry insight. Since 2017, he has led the course and teaches construction project management and management systems. Previously a Project Manager and Quality Manager in construction engineering and product manufacture, his varied portfolio gives students valuable exposure to real-world practice. For further information, please contact Darren directly via email. 

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Career Prospects

Project management is a thriving profession in the UK and internationally. By the time you graduate, you will have the skills and confidence to progress as a construction project manager.

Your future career

Construction is one of the largest industries in the world, and none of it would be possible without surveyors and project managers. You’ll be prepared for roles across construction, infrastructure and the wider built environment. Depending on your experience and career goals, you could progress into project management, consultancy or senior leadership positions, with opportunities to work on complex projects in the UK and internationally.   Possible career paths include:

Client Project Manager  
Construction Manager  
Site Manager  
Facilities Manager  
Operational Manager 

Build your own career

Your career doesn’t have to mean working for someone else. If you want to freelance, start a business or develop an idea, USW Enterprise can help with one-to-one mentoring, practical workshops and funding opportunities through the USW Enterprise Startup Fund.
 
You’ll also have access to Startup Stiwdio spaces in our Cardiff, Newport and Treforest campuses. After graduating, you can get free membership for up to three years, giving you workspace and a network of other founders.
 
Whether you choose employment, freelancing or starting a business, we’ll help you build the skills, confidence and connections to move forward.

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Industry Partners

Our strong industrial and commercial links mean we know what employers want from you when you graduate. We have a proud history of developing industry-ready graduates for over four decades. Industry informed projects, guest sessions and realistic professional scenarios will give you opportunities to develop skills that are relevant to the workplace. 

Entry Requirements

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.

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Typical qualification requirements

An Honours degree at class 2:2 or above in a discipline relevant to built environment such as architecture, building surveying, civil engineering, commercial management, construction management, project management or quantity surveying.

 

Alternatively, an Honours degree at class 2:2 or above in a non-construction subject with a minimum of five years’ relevant experience in the construction environment, or relevant experience and an appropriate professional qualification such as RICS, RIBA, CIOB, MICE and MIStructE.

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.

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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 4 overall and a minimum of 4 in each component 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.

Fees and Funding

Fees and funding Scholarships and bursaries Alumni Discount

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.  We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

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.

DBS 
Students will not require DBS to complete any modules successfully. A DBS will be required if the students choose to complete a placement at our Early Intervention Clinic, or are completing a dissertation project involving contact with vulnerable adults or children and young people. The DBS fee includes £49.50 for the enhanced DBS certificate, the Post Office Administration fee, and the online administration fee.
Cost: £64.74 annually and if the updating service is required to update a DBS following expiry, the update service is £16.

DBS Updating Service
This is optional, but may be of benefit to students who plan to complete placements or work in an area where a DBS check is a requirement. Please note, the service has to be joined within 19 days of receipt of your enhanced DBS certificate.
Cost: £16

Travel
Students undertaking a dissertation with an external organisation may incur costs associated with travel.
Cost: Variable

International Full-Time Fee £ 18,300

per year

Fees and funding Scholarships and bursaries Alumni Discount

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.  We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

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.

DBS 
Students will not require DBS to complete any modules successfully. A DBS will be required if the students choose to complete a placement at our Early Intervention Clinic, or are completing a dissertation project involving contact with vulnerable adults or children and young people. The DBS fee includes £49.50 for the enhanced DBS certificate, the Post Office Administration fee, and the online administration fee.
Cost: £64.74 annually and if the updating service is required to update a DBS following expiry, the update service is £16.

DBS Updating Service
This is optional, but may be of benefit to students who plan to complete placements or work in an area where a DBS check is a requirement. Please note, the service has to be joined within 19 days of receipt of your enhanced DBS certificate.
Cost: £16

Travel
Students undertaking a dissertation with an external organisation may incur costs associated with travel.
Cost: Variable

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How to apply

There is an online application process for this course. Please choose the application form for your preferred start date and mode of study (i.e. full-time or part-time).

  • Construction Project Management

    • Full-time, 1 years

    • September

    • Pontypridd

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  • Construction Project Management

    • Part-time, 2 years

    • September

    • Pontypridd

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