Program Overview

Programme: BSc Real Estate

The BSc Real Estate programme is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the real estate industry, including property economics, development, management, valuation, financing, investment, and marketing.

Programme Information

Real estate is the study of fixed property and related aspects such as property economics, development, management, valuation, financing, investment, and marketing. Apart from a future in areas such as property investment, property finance, and facilities and property management, further studies to obtain an honours degree in real estate can lead to registration as a professional property valuer. Career opportunities encompass the whole spectrum of the property sector, whether as entrepreneurs in the private sector or as employees in the private, government, or semi-governmental sectors.

Admission Requirements

The following persons will be considered for admission:

• A candidate who is in possession of a certificate that is deemed by the University to be equivalent to the required Grade 12 certificate with university endorsement.
• A candidate who is a graduate from another tertiary institution or has been granted the status of a graduate of such an institution.
• A candidate who is a graduate of another faculty at the University of Pretoria. Life Orientation is excluded when calculating the APS. Grade 11 results are used in the provisional admission of prospective students. A valid qualification with admission to degree studies is required. Minimum subject and achievement requirements are required. BSc (Real Estate) is a selection programme.

Minimum Requirements

The minimum requirements for admission to the BSc Real Estate programme are:

• Achievement level: Afrikaans or English, Mathematics, Physical Science, and TPT (or Accounting)
• Specific achievement levels are required for each subject, as outlined in the programme details.

Promotion to Next Study Year

Promotion to the second semester of the first year and to the second year of study is based on the following criteria:

1. A newly registered first-year student who failed all the prescribed modules for the programme at the end of the first semester shall not be readmitted to the School for the Built Environment in the second semester.
2. A student who complies with all the requirements of the first year of study, or has at least obtained 110 credits, is promoted to the second year of study.
3. A student who has not obtained at least 70% of the credits of the first year of study after the November examinations must reapply for admission should he/she intend to continue with his/her studies.
4. Students who have not passed all the prescribed modules of the first year of study, as well as students who are readmitted in terms of (c) must register for the outstanding modules of the first year.
5. A student who is repeating his/her first year, may, on recommendation of the relevant head of department and with the approval of the Dean, be permitted to enrol for modules of the second year of study in addition to the first-year modules which he or she failed, providing that he or she complies with the prerequisites for the second-year modules and that no timetable clashes occur.

Pass with Distinction

The degree is conferred with distinction on a student who meets the following criteria:

1. If no module of the second and third study year was repeated and a weighted average of at least 75% was obtained in one year in all the modules (excluding JCP 201), of the final study year.
2. The degree programme was completed within the prescribed three study years, and the final study year modules were passed on first registration without any supplementary or special examinations.

Fundamental Modules

The fundamental modules for the BSc Real Estate programme are:

• AIM 101: Academic information management 101
• AIM 111: Academic information management 111
• AIM 121: Academic information management 121
• ALL 122: Academic literacy for Construction Economics 122
• UPO 112: Academic orientation 112

Core Modules

The core modules for the BSc Real Estate programme are:

• BGG 121: Building organisation 121
• BOU 111: Building drawings 111
• BOU 121: Building drawings 121
• BWT 110: Building science 110
• BWT 120: Building science 120
• EKN 110: Economics 110
• EKN 120: Economics 120
• EWS 110: Real estate 110
• EWS 120: Real estate 120
• GBD 112: Building services 112
• GBD 122: Building services 122
• HVH 101: Quantities 101
• OMG 122: History of the environment 122
• WTW 134: Mathematics 134

Second-Year Modules

The second-year modules for the BSc Real Estate programme are:

• BWT 210: Building science 210
• BWT 220: Building science 220
• EDW 200: Property valuation 200
• EWS 210: Real estate 210
• EWS 220: Real estate 220
• FBS 110: Financial management 110
• GBD 211: Building services 211
• GBD 221: Building services 221
• SKE 220: Civil engineering services 220
• STK 110: Statistics 110
• STK 161: Statistics 161

Third-Year Modules

The third-year modules for the BSc Real Estate programme are:

• BER 310: Business law 310
• BHU 320: Housing 320
• BWT 310: Building science 310
• BWT 320: Building science 320
• EDW 300: Property valuation 300
• EOW 320: Introduction to property law 320
• EWS 310: Real estate 310
• EWS 320: Real estate 320
• FBS 210: Financial management 210
• FBS 320: Financial management 320
• GBD 311: Building services 311
• JCP 201: Community-based project 201
• NNM 320: Research methodology 320
• VKN 320: Sustainable construction 320