University of Johannesburg PhD in Construction Management
University of Johannesburg

University of Johannesburg

PhD in Construction Management

Johannesburg, South Africa

PhD

2 up to

3 years

English

Full time, Part time

ZAR 20,405 / per year **

On-Campus

* by noon

** average fee. Additional fees may apply

Key Summary

About: The PhD in Construction Management at the University of Johannesburg trains researchers in construction engineering management, construction project management, and interdisciplinary built-environment studies. You’ll study management, economics, and science and technology to address infrastructure and project-delivery challenges across Africa. The programme promotes original research, lifelong learning and training of future students.

Career Outcomes: Graduates can work in academia, research, and industry as construction managers, construction project managers, researchers, lecturers, consultants, or infrastructure policy advisors. You’ll apply skills in project delivery, design integration, cost and contract management, construction engineering management, and interdisciplinary problem solving in firms, government, or international agencies.

Construction management is a holistically developed built environment discipline in that the related tertiary education addresses three main streams, namely management, economics, and science and technology. This empowers construction management graduates to manage the business of construction and projects (the physical process), as construction managers. Furthermore, construction management is the ‘gateway’ qualification for construction project management, which is the management of projects from conception to completion on behalf of a client, including design delivery, integration of design and construction, and the overseeing of construction. Expertise in this area is therefore imperative for the infrastructural development of South Africa and the African continent.

The purpose of the Ph.D. in Construction Management is to develop an intellectual with advanced abilities in applying construction engineering management with other related inter-disciplinary principles, in order to address construction management-related problems within the sector. One of the main objectives in this process is to develop an advanced capability to conduct inter-disciplinary construction engineering management research of an original nature. It also aims to promote a lifelong learning approach, as well as an aptitude for training other students in similar fields. 

Reasons for studying at UJ

  • UJ offers not only a special program called the First Year Experience to help orientate students throughout the first year but we also offer a Senior Student Experience that gears students toward the workplace!
  • Grab the opportunity to participate in a variety of sports and train alongside Olympians and Paralympians on state-of-the-art pitches, tracks, and fields, or just keep fit by joining one of the gyms on each of our 4 campuses.
  • Be part of a young, vibrant, and agile university that reflects and adapts easily to our country’s aspirations, while maintaining global relevance through numerous international partnerships.
  • 178 Internationally respected and accepted qualifications.
  • Join a university that cares enough to have raised over R300 million since the start of 2016 in order to support the Missing Middle Campaign. UJ also ensures that more than 6 000 needy students have two healthy meals per day.
  • Study in the vibrant City of Gold – the economic hub of South Africa. Join a vibrant, cosmopolitan, progressive group of students and academics on their way to re-imagining the future!
  • UJ offers an amazing on-campus experience whether you live in one of UJ’s residences, belong to a day house, or whether you just want to socialize at the Student Centres on all campuses. 
  • We ensure the health, safety, and security of all our students through our own on-campus health services and UJ Protection Services.
  • Did you know that during the first five years of UJ’s existence it doubled its targeted research output and to this day, continues to break records!