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Building Surveying [with Foundation Year] at Anglia Ruskin University - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Anglia Ruskin University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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Course summary

Start an exciting professional career as a building surveyor, advising clients about sustainable property, retro-fit and building adaptions and improvements. Why study Building Surveying at ARU?

  • Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), ensuring you gain the full range of professional and technical skills required, from converting buildings to performing surveys and valuations.
  • Get hands-on by developing skills in all aspects of surveying buildings using industry equipment.
  • Utilise our state-of-the-art facilities including industry standard equipment, AutoCAD Studios and testing and surveying labs.
  • Bring the world of work to life through Live Briefs; designed and developed with regional employers to give you exposure to ‘real world’ problem-solving.
  • Benefit from strong industry links with professional institutions, local firms and building surveying experts to increase your employability upon graduation.
Learn how to evaluate the design, specification and performance of buildings. Develop skills in building inspection and analysis, and use industry-standard equipment to recognise and tackle defects, and identify technical problems in construction. There are plenty of opportunities to get hands-on in specialist labs for materials and testing, environmental science and design, and surveying. You’ll also work in our design and AutoCAD studios. As a BSc (Hons) Building Surveying student at ARU, you’ll find yourself working independently and as part of larger built environment teams. This helps you understand where building surveyors ‘fit in’, and it’s great preparation for your future career. You’ll learn the knowledge and skills you’ll need to succeed in the building surveying industry, covering site surveying, CAD drawing, BIM modules, construction management processes, techniques and materials, design analysis, sustainability and the contractual, legal, economic, financial, risk and health and safety aspects. You’ll learn the costs and complications involved in extending, adapting, altering and conserving existing buildings for re-use with a view to optimising their long-term sustainable economic viability and remaining sensitive to their history. You’ll consider building defects, their analysis and diagnosis, and their required remedial action, and examine a building development project from inception to completion.  You’ll put together a home buyers’ report to help you learn how to recognise residential buildings’ defects and characteristics and their impact, and how to observe health and safety and data protection rules while doing so. You’ll inspect and prepare a schedule of dilapidations and a building survey of real-life commercial buildings, with a detailed report for potential clients and their legal advisors. Our Building Surveying degree course is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), so when you graduate, you can take your Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) and qualify as a Chartered Surveyor. As a skilled Building Surveying graduate, you’ll be in great demand. Our hands-on course offers opportunities to experience construction environments as well as inspecting and valuing buildings, which will enhance your employability and give you a taster of some of the places you could be working.

Modules

Year 1: Interactive Learning Skills and Communication ICT Skills Critical Thinking Maths for Scientists Maths for Engineers Physics for Engineers Engineering Design Fundamentals of Computing Year 2: BIM and Dimensional Control (30 credits) Technology and Structures (30 credits) Health and Safety Project Control and Resourcing (30 credits) Law and Economics (30 credits) Year 3: Management Practice (15 credits) Project Administration (15 credits) Building Inspection and Analysis (15 credits) Property and Land Law (15 credits) Advanced Technology and Environmental Impact (30 credits) Building Surveying Documentation (15 credits) Ruskin Module (15 credits) Year 4: Conversion and Adaptation of Buildings (15 credits) Building Surveying Practice I (15 credits Building Surveying Practice 2 (15 credits) Building Pathology (15 credits) Project Evaluation and Development (15 credits) Risk, Value and Environmental Impact (15 credits) Major Project (30 credits)

Assessment method

Your Foundation year will prepare you for the rest of your course. We’ll focus on general skills such as researching and referencing, numeracy and ICT, and critical thinking. But we’ll also look at topics including classical mechanics, design, computer science, programming and coding. Plus, there’s a focus on developing mathematical skills.

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Chartered Surveyors, Royal Institution of

How to apply

29Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
K232
Institution code:
A60
Campus name:
Chelmsford Campus
Campus code:
A

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

5 GCSEs at grade D, or grade 3, or above and evidence of two years post-GCSE study at Level 3. If you have achieved at least grade E in one A level, or equivalent, you are exempt from the two years post-GCSE study requirement, but you still must meet the GCSE requirements. Applicants who do not meet the two years post GCSE study at level 3 may be considered based on their satisfactory employment history, which must be a minimum of two years full time employment supported by employer evidence and deemed appropriate by the University for meeting the course of study applied for.

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)5.5With minimum 5.5 in each component

Equivalent English Language qualifications, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University, are also accepted.

Student Outcomes

Operated by the Office for Students
75%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
90%
Go onto work and study

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9535 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9535 Year 1
Scotland £9535 Year 1
Wales £9535 Year 1
Channel Islands £9535 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9535 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

https://aru.ac.uk/student-life/preparing-for-university/help-with-finances/undergraduate
Building Surveying [with Foundation Year] at Anglia Ruskin University - UCAS