Program Overview

Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management BSc (Hons)

Course Overview

Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management (QSCM) is a course aimed at those wishing to enter the construction industry dealing with cost control, contracts and legal aspects at a professional level.

Course Details

• Study Level: Undergraduate
• Duration: 3 years full-time, 4 years sandwich
• UCAS Code: K240
• Start Date: September 2025
• Location: Coventry University (Coventry)
• Study Mode: Full-time, Sandwich

Course Content

Year One

• Materials and Building Surveying (20 credits): Introduces concepts to develop an understanding of engineering properties of construction materials.
• Construction Technology and Environmental Sciences (20 credits): Covers the principal aspects of construction technology and associated materials.
• Spatial Design and Visual Communication (20 credits): Develops understanding of the design process as a circular activity.
• Professional Skills Development (20 credits): Introduces core knowledge and skills that define the role of different construction professionals.
• Project and Cost Management (20 credits): Provides an insight into project management and cost management.
• Sustainable Environments (20 credits): Examines how the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals can be implemented and furthered within the Built and Natural Environment.

Year Two

• Construction Technology, Assembly and Environmental Systems (20 credits): Develops knowledge of advanced construction technology.
• Law for Built Environment Professionals (20 credits): Introduces general principles and concepts of law related to the built environment.
• Procurement and Supply Chain Management (20 credits): Explores the sustainable, financial and logistical management and control of all aspects of the supply chain.
• Digitised Quantification and Cost (20 credits): Introduces aspects related to the quantification and costing of projects using relevant digital platforms and appropriate industry software.
• Project Finance and Contract Management (20 credits): Develops understanding of the tools and techniques of project management and how to prepare and administer a construction contract.
• Sustainable Environments in Society: Developing Solutions (20 credits): Undertakes a critical analysis of a specified location and associated project that has been influenced by the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals.

Placement Year

• UK Work Placement (0 credits): Provides an opportunity to reflect upon and gain experience for an approved placement undertaken during the programme.
• International Study/Work Placement (0 credits): Provides an opportunity to reflect upon and gain experience for an approved international study/work placement undertaken during the programme.

Final Year

• Interdisciplinary Project (20 credits): Demonstrates skills base through the continued development of critical, transferable study skills.
• Professional Practice and Contract Administration (20 credits): Develops understanding and knowledge of the role of professional practitioners in the construction industry and the process of contract administration used in the construction industry.
• Complex Quantification and Cost (20 credits): Develops understanding of digitised quantification into more complex aspects.
• Pre-Contract Quantity Surveying in Practice (20 credits): Enhances and applies understanding of pre-contract project and finance management.
• Post-Contract Quantity Surveying in Practice (20 credits): Enhances and applies understanding of post-contract project and finance management.
• Research Dissertation (20 credits): Enables development of research skills by conducting primary or secondary research focused on a specific problem of relevance to the discipline.

Entry Requirements

• Typical Entry Requirements:
  • UK: 112 UCAS points, A level BBC, GCSE maths and English at grade 4/C or Functional Skills Level 2.
  • International: IELTS 6.0 overall, with no component lower than 5.5.

Fees and Funding

• Student: Full-time £9,535 per year (UK, Ireland, Channel Islands or Isle of Man), £19,850 per year (International).
• Tuition Fees: The University will charge the tuition fees stated in the above table for the first Academic Year of study.

Facilities

• Materials Laboratory: Includes industrial standard timber and steel workshops, a concrete mixing area with three pan mixers, programmable environmental chambers, a range of ovens and curing tanks and various materials testing apparatus.
• Simulation Centre: Our interactive training centre includes a ‘virtual’ construction site with fully equipped site cabins and an observation deck.
• Computer Suite/CAD Facility: The study of digitised quantification requires an in-depth knowledge of relevant software such as CATO, CAD Measure, BIM Measure and Cost X, as well as a working understanding of CAD design software.

Careers and Opportunities

• Career Prospects: Quantity surveyors and commercial managers play a pivotal role in the delivery of every construction project; career prospects can exist wherever new projects are being contemplated, or where facilities are being refurbished, or where building work requires professional control.
• Further Study: Construction Management with BIM MSc, Construction Project and Cost Management MSc, Sustainability and Environmental Management MSc.