7th in the UK for Architecture, Building and Planning (Daily Mail University Guide 2027)
Study at the heart of one of the UK's most active regions for construction and regeneration, with direct links to the contractors shaping it. Every student on this course is also guaranteed a structured professional placement before they graduate, giving you genuine workplace experience and industry contacts ahead of your first job. Combine that with triple professional accreditation from CIOB, RICS and CABE, and this course gives you one of the most direct routes in the region to becoming a Chartered Construction Manager.
You'll train at our Springfield site, a £120m development that is Europe's largest construction centre of excellence — built to mirror a live construction environment, not just teach one. And you'll graduate with a qualification that's already taken students into contracting organisations including Balfour Beatty, EC Harris, Thomas Vale, Laing O'Rourke and Wates.
This course is designed to give you a sound working knowledge of the key concepts, practices and principles of construction management, and the ability to apply them on real projects — covering construction project management and planning, contract administration and dispute resolution, pre-contract studies, and construction technology and materials. You'll take part in field trips and practical case studies based on live, on-site construction activity, working alongside students from other built-environment disciplines in exactly the kind of multi-disciplinary teams you'll join after graduation.
This course will:
- prepare you to apply construction management principles to real construction projects, meeting the industry's demand for graduates who can hit the ground running
- develop your ability to make informed, ethical and sustainable construction management decisions with judgement and initiative
- build your knowledge of construction technology, digital construction, law, business and finance, and how they interact on a live project
- put you into group projects alongside students from other construction disciplines — architecture, quantity surveying, building surveying — mirroring a real project team
- develop your research and critical evaluation skills through independent study and a final-year dissertation
- give you the opportunity to apply what you've learned in industry, through your guaranteed professional placement
This course is acreddited by:
- Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
- Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
- Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE)
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