Real Estate BSc Honours
London, United Kingdom
BSc
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
14 Aug 2026*
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
GBP 17,600 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* International Deadline | Home Deadline – 4 September
** international | UK: £9,535
Key Summary
Book to attend an Online Open Day to find out more - Undergraduate event on March 21 and Master's event on March 4.
Buying and renting property for professional or personal purposes is one of the most important – and expensive – decisions for a business or individual to make. Real estate offers a dynamic and exciting career requiring a skillset combining economic, interpersonal, management, planning, public policy and sales expertise.
Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), our degree covers all aspects of real estate, including buying and selling, valuing, developing, planning, managing and investing in various property markets – commercial, industrial and residential.
Our professionally oriented course has been designed with input from major employers, capitalising on our excellent industry contacts, which include Barrett Homes, Savills and British Land. With the headquarters of many major property firms close by, our central London location enables us to invite a wide range of professionals to give guest lectures and regularly contribute to the course. They provide work placements, content for coursework and help with assessment, providing a valuable practitioner perspective.
We arrange various site visits, so you can experience real-life estate strategies and see developments from construction through to completion. In the past, for example, students visited Lendlease’s nearby Elephant Park development, part of a £2.3 billion regeneration programme on 28 acres of land in the centre of Elephant and Castle. There are also optional international field trips, which have previously included visits to Brookfield Properties and Cushman and Wakefield in New York, as well as Savills in Malaysia and Hong Kong.
The course will allow you to complete the academic requirements for the membership status of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. There are opportunities to enhance your CV by attending our Employer evenings, and you can choose to undertake a year’s placement after your second year.
Recent graduates have found work within large and small property companies, local authorities, developers, health trusts, investment firms, landed estates and many other property-related areas.
Top reasons to study with us
- 20th in UK and 2nd in London for Town & Country Planning (Source: Complete University Guide 2020).
- The course is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
- Excellent industry links with property firms and construction companies, including Lendlease, Knight Frank, Chase and Partners, RICS and Falcon Chambers.
- Street walks taking in Marylebone, Euston and Fitzrovia, and street talks incorporating King's Cross redevelopment, Baker Street and Mayfair.
- Central London location enables us to invite directors of leading property firms to deliver guest lectures, previously from NEC Contracts, Mendex, Luton Borough Council, HTA Consultants and BREEAM.
- Opportunities for internships and/or a placement year, for example, one student previously worked at Barratt Homes.
- Contractors, developers, professional consultancies, client organisations, central government and local authorities all employ our graduates.
Why study this course?
- Combine theory and practice
Link theory to global practice through real-life case studies, projects, field trips and insight from practitioners. - Learn from practitioners
Expert faculty will share their professional experiences of working as building surveyors in the property and construction industry. - Fantastic location
Our central London location means you'll be close to many of the major property firms.
Professional accreditation
The Real Estate BSc is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the world's leading professional body for qualifications and standards in land, property, infrastructure and construction. Successful completion fulfils the academic requirements to become a professional member with the designation MRICS after gaining experience in the workplace and passing the Assessment of Professional Competence after graduating.
The University of Westminster is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) as a partnership university.
Real estate is a dynamic, sociable and high-earning profession. It encompasses most areas of commercial (industrial, office and retail) and residential property. This course gives a thorough understanding of all aspects of real estate, designed to prepare you for employment as a surveyor and property advisor.
Transferable skills and competencies are embedded and developed throughout the course. For example, a professional standard of presentation is required for all coursework, which must meet high standards of written English. Projects and studies based on real-world cases help students learn how to solve problems and act with realistic constraints on time, information and resources.
The University's Careers and Employability Service has built up a network of over 3,000 employers around the world, helping all our students explore and connect with exciting opportunities and careers.
- Develop your CQ
Develop your cultural intelligence – or ‘CQ’ – by studying alongside students and staff representing more than 100 nationalities. - Gain your Duke of Edinburgh award
Undergraduate students within the School of Applied Management can undertake their Duke of Edinburgh award. - Employers around the world
The University’s Careers and Employability Service has built up a network of over 3,000 employers around the world, helping all our students explore and connect with exciting opportunities and careers.
Industry links
Our course was designed with input from a range of industry professionals and to retain currency and relevance, we receive ongoing feedback from the School’s Employability Advisory Board. Current members include practitioner representatives from the multinational construction, property and infrastructure company Lendlease, commercial property experts Chase and Partners, and CABE.
We are proud of our excellent industry links with a host of property companies and key professional bodies, including RICS, CIOB and CABE. They enable us to host an annual Property and Construction Careers Fair that is immensely popular with our students.
The careers fair provides a unique opportunity to meet with leading employers in the property and construction sector, learn first-hand about their organisations, secure work experience, or receive guidance from a panel of speakers on the graduate scheme application process for some of the larger employers.
In 2019 the fair attracted 40 employers, including:
- Barratt Developments
- Bouygues
- Carter Jonas and Grainger
- CBRE
- JLL
- Mace
- Savills
- UK
Job roles
This course will prepare you for roles and employment areas such as:
- Property advisor
- Customer services manager
- Estate agent
- Property broker
- Property manager
- Site surveyor
- Property valuer
- Property development
- Property investment
Graduate employers
Our graduates gain employment in a variety of property-related areas, including large and small property advisors, chartered surveyors, property companies, local authorities, housing associations, developers, health trusts, investment firms, and landed estates.
Graduates from this course have found employment at organisations including:
- Savills
- Cushman and Wakefield
- The British Land Company
- Montagu Evans
- Countryside Properties
- Chase and Partners
Westminster Employability Award
Employers value graduates who have invested in their personal and professional development – and our Westminster Employability Award gives you the chance to formally document and demonstrate these activities and achievements.
The award is flexible and can be completed in your own time, comprising a set of core and optional extracurricular activities.
Activities might include gaining experience through a part-time job or placement, signing up to a University-run scheme – such as mentoring or teaching in a school – or completing online exercises.
The University is dedicated to supporting ambitious and outstanding students and we offer a variety of scholarships to eligible students.