Why Choose Built Environment?
Built Environment is closely related to our everyday life and the wider environment. From designing and constructing houses, to building and repairing bridges, airports, and roads, the industry provides unparalleled employment opportunities. In the UK over 1.4 million people are currently working in the built environment - many are self employed.
Earnings in the sector are significantly higher than the average for most industries. It is also an exciting place to be! Many built environment professionals say that it is the variety of the work that attracts and thrills them since they first ‘discovered’ the industry. No two projects or days are the same. As well as developing practical skills , you can also develop some essentials skills such as planning, organising, and managing operations. Some jobs involve lots of travelling, attracting those who love travel and meeting new people.
Careers and study options
At undergraduate level careers include property/real estate management, surveying, construction management and architecture or architectural technology. At masters level there are opportunities for existing managers to boost their professional development or to study more specialist areas such as Construction law or Facilities Management or to take one of the increasingly popular conversion programmes which allow students, with a non cognate (i.e. non built environment) degree, to enter professions such as surveying, project management in construction or real estate management.
Another important factor for those setting off into the Built Environment is the provider’s industrial links. These offer the opportunity for paid work placements at undergraduate level. Work placements can be like an extended job interview and for the right person can result in a job on graduation. It is possible to combine a career with study!
It is important to select the course which is right for you. Be sure to select a provider who is recognized and whose courses are accredited by relevant professional bodies.
Professional bodies control entry to the professions(graduates with a professionally accredited award are exempt from the academic examinations for entry to the profession.).
Whilst entry requirements vary some provider’s recognize experience in place of traditional educational qualification so check this out.
Brian Meichen
Director of Marketing
School of the Built
Environment
University of Salford
More about the University of Salford
The UKs premier School of the Built Environment is at the University of Salford (www.sobe.salford.ac.uk). This award winning School, whose research is officially ranked number one in the UK, offers a great and expanding choice of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes designed to promote business and personal development. At all levels there are options to study full time or part time .The curricula are based on leading edge principles and research and allow students to focus on aspects of their work where real benefit can be harnessed for their business. This School’s programmes are professionally accredited and it offers optional work placement opportunities. This school’s MSc programmes may be studied either full-time on campus or by distance learning, involving internet enabled interactive tutor support, with assessment by course work and no campus attendance.
Distance learning thus offers the opportunity to simultaneously combine career and study.
“Running these distance
learning programmes has been
a revelation. Students who
otherwise would have found
a masters programme beyond
their reach are now able to
fulfil their potential. Business
is benefiting from the new
knowledge, understanding
and skills students acquire.
Tutors have found the level of
interaction in the programme
extremely rewarding and this
can be seen in the results’
Professor Mel Lees, Head of
School of the Built Environment,
University of Salford. The built environment - A great challenge and a rewarding career!
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