Quantity Surveying (with Placement year)

Through our accredited course you’ll learn how to precisely cost and manage projects from initial concept, through to design, build and maintenance, while ensuring each project meets all legal and quality requirements.

Why study Quantity Surveying at ARU?
• Our Chelmsford course is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)



• Both our Chelmsford and Peterborough courses are accredited by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), ensuring you gain a full range of critical professional and technical skills for a career in this field.



• You'll gain incredible insight: this course is designed to explore the scientific, social, legal, technical, ethical, economic and political aspects of the built environment.



• You'll utilise our state-of-the-art facilities including industry standard equipment, Autodesk Studios and environmental science 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 guest lecturers to keep you up to date with the latest issues in quantity surveying.



You’ll learn the skills needed to succeed as a quantity surveyor: site surveying, CAD drawing production and how to use BIM modules. You’ll gain insight and understanding into the methods of construction and management principles and process, how to measure, build well and safely, and how to solve problems.

You’ll learn to factor costs, economics, procurement tenders and contracts, risks and legal considerations into your work, think analytically and independently, and discover how to research and communicate your findings.

By the time you graduate, you’ll have a sound understanding of the demands of professional practice, including how to identify and meet clients’ needs. You’ll also be able to register with RICS and work as a chartered quantity surveyor.

Quantity surveyors are in strong demand across a range of companies where you can positively contribute to the built environment in both the UK and abroad, and our graduates are well-equipped to aim for top managerial posts.

At ARU, you’ll be supported from day one with wellbeing services, money advice and careers guidance to help you through university and beyond.

Their courses are built around the skills and experience employers value. ARU are proud to be in the top 20% of UK universities for teaching quality (TEF 2023), and ranked #1 in the East of England, and #8 in the UK, for UG graduates in senior roles 15 months after gradudation (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2025). You'll have access to fantastic facilities thanks to £95m of investment - think SuperLabs, TV studios, law courts, mock hospital wards, gaming studios and more.

Wherever you're heading, ARU will help you get there.