Real Estate

Royal Agricultural University
Postgraduate MSc Full-time 1 Year Business and management studies

About this course

Whether you wish to pursue a career in commercial, residential, or industrial property, you will develop your technical and professional skills, networks, and confidence. You will benefit from site visits and expert speakers.

Subjects you will cover include acquisitions, sales, commercial lettings, development and management of property interests and investments, town and country planning, and building construction.

This rigorous and challenging programme equips students with the intellectual mind-set, vocationally orientated knowledge and professional competencies to evaluate markets, property investments and development projects. If you have professional real estate career aspirations it prepares you to enter practice.

Fully accredited by the Royal Institutiojn of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), this course is an established route to a professional career in mixed practice real estate of other sectors, depending on your career aspirations. Part-time students already in relevant work may apply for APC registration upon enrolment.

Real estate professionals are in great demand and the University has achieved high levels of success in placing graduates in major urban and rural real estate companies and advisory practices. Key areas include:​

  • Valuation and surveying

  • Property investment and asset management

  • Corporate real estate/facilities management

  • Residential and commercial agency

  • Town and country planning

  • Development

  • Property management
  • Study Options

    This course is available in 6 study options:

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 1 Year

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: Cirencester

    Part-time

    Duration: 2 Years

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: Cirencester

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 1 Year

    Qualification: PgDip

    Location: Cirencester

    Part-time

    Duration: 2 Years

    Qualification: PgDip

    Location: Cirencester

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 1 Year

    Qualification: PgCert

    Location: Cirencester

    Part-time

    Duration: 2 Years

    Qualification: PgCert

    Location: Cirencester

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    1251 Property, housing and estate managers
    1122 Production managers and directors in construction
    3541 Estimators, valuers and assessors
    2452 Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants
    3534 Financial accounts managers
    3114 Building and civil engineering technicians

    Course Details

    Qualification
    MSc
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    1 Year
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Cirencester
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    Business and management studies