Real Estate (Hons) (Foundation Year) Royal Agricultural University

Overview

Key Features

Together with the Pilkington Farms Partnership the RAU has introduced a generous award designed to reward academic performance and to celebrate excellence and innovation in real estate and land management, to find out more please click on the link at the bottom of the page.

This degree course with a foundation year incorporates an extra year of study at the start of your course, so that you can progress with confidence. It will develop the skills you need for your later studies. It is particularly suitable if:

• You don’t have the grades for immediate entry onto a three-year course
• You have non-traditional qualifications or experience
• You’re starting university after some time away from education
• You’re looking for more support during the transition into university study

The UK, Singapore, Dubai, Brussels and Hong Kong are just some of the destinations where graduates of this course have gone on to work, in  both town and urban environments.

Whether you wish to pursue a career in commercial, residential, or industrial property our Real Estate degree will develop your technical and professional skills, networks and confidence. Graduates have fulfilled roles at prestigious companies such as Knight Frank, JLL, CBRE, Deloitte Real Estate, Dalcour Malaren, Savills, the Valuation Office  Agency, and many more.

Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), this course is the ideal launch pad into the professional world of real estate or other sectors depending on your career aspirations. You will learn about acquisitions, sales, commercial lettings, development and management of property interests and investments, town and country planning and building construction.

Careers

On completing the course, many of our graduates secure employment undertaking the two-year Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) to qualify as Chartered Surveyors. The latest Department for Education data (Longitudinal Educational Outcomes June 2018) indicates that RAU graduates studying in Architecture, Building and Planning subjects are in work, ranking us 27th out of 62 universities.

Recent graduates have gone on to fulfil jobs within a range of companies:

• Bruton Knowles
• CBRE
• NHS Property Services
• Knight Frank
• Bidwells
• Dalcour Maclaren
• Marsh and Parsons
• Hamptons International
• Savills
• Valuation Office Agency
• Deloitte Real Estate
• Bidwells

You will gain the knowledge, understanding and skills to practice within the following sectors:

• Valuation and surveying
• Property investment and asset management
• Residential and commercial agency
• Town and country planning
• Property management

Accreditation

Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), this is the ideal launch pad into the professional world of real estate.