MSc Construction Management with Industry Placement
Program Overview
This MSc in Construction Management program provides comprehensive knowledge and expertise in construction management, encompassing perspectives from clients, design teams, and contractors. With a focus on modern construction practices, technological advancements, and industry trends, the program equips graduates for leadership roles in the construction sector. The program includes an industry placement, offering practical experience and professional networking opportunities.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Our MSc Construction Management with Industry Placement is an international program of advanced construction management studies and professional experience.
Objectives:
- Learn to manage construction-related organizations from multiple perspectives: from the client, to the design team, to the contractor.
- Explore how the construction sector operates in both the developed and developing worlds, as well as the macro-economic and micro-economic factors that influence the sector.
- Develop specialist expertise across a wide range of construction topics, including:
- Business models for construction firms and the mapping of smart construction
- Construction robotics and the changing role of project participants and their interactions with digital technologies
- Modern methods of construction, with a particular focus on Design for Manufacturing Assembly (DFMA)
- Project management
- Construction contract law
- Design management
Outline:
Year 1
- Business of Construction
- Managing Construction Projects
- Construction Contract Law and Design Management
- Research Skills
Year 2
- Research Dissertation
- Optional modules (select 3):
- Human Resource Management, and Real Estate Development and Appraisal
- Strategies and International Construction
- Building Information Management and Socio-technical Change
- Innovations in Digital Practice
- Organizing for Innovation and Digital Transformation
- Infrastructure Development and Urban Sustainability
- International Construction Labour and Construction Sector Transition
- Carbon Management and Life Cycle Assessment
- Construction Risk Management
Careers:
- Architectural and engineering design
- Project management
- Construction management
- General business management
- Investment appraisal
- Public sector
- Research
Other:
- The program is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).
- Students have the opportunity to gain experience in a relevant role through an integrated industry placement.
- The program is ideal for graduates from any discipline who are seeking a professional qualification and industry experience leading to employment in an exciting profession that involves the application of financial, managerial, and property design skills.
New UK/Republic of Ireland students
£12,550
New international students
£26,950 The tuition fee for your first year will be the standard program fee. For the placement year, you will only pay 15% of the program fee.
