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

• Important information for all prospective students for 2024: The admission requirements below apply to all who apply for admission to the University of Pretoria with a National Senior Certificate (NSC) and Independent Examination Board (IEB) qualifications.
• Minimum requirements:
  • Achievement level: English Home Language or English First Additional Language: 5, Mathematics: 5, Physical Sciences or Accounting: 4
  • APS: 30
• The suggested second-choice programme for BSc (Real Estate) is BCom (Investment Management).
• Life Orientation is excluded when calculating the APS.
• Applicants currently in Grade 12 must apply with their final Grade 11 (or equivalent) results.
• Applicants who have completed Grade 12 must apply with their final NSC or equivalent qualification results.
• Please note that meeting the minimum academic requirements does not guarantee admission.

Promotion to Next Study Year

• Promotion to the second semester of the first year and to the second year of study:
  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.
• Promotion to the third year of study:
  1. A student must pass all the prescribed modules at first-year level (level 100) before he or she is admitted to any module at third-year level (level 300).
  2. A student who complies with all the requirements of the second year of study, or has at least obtained 230 credits, is promoted to the third year of study provided that no first-year module(s) are outstanding.

Pass with Distinction

The degree is conferred with distinction on a student:

1. if no module of the second and third study year was repeated and a weighted average of at least 75% (not rounded) was obtained in one year in all the modules, 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.

Curriculum

The curriculum for the BSc Real Estate programme is divided into three years, with a range of core and fundamental modules that provide a comprehensive understanding of the real estate industry.

Year 1

• Fundamental modules:
  • 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:
  • BGG 121: Building organisation 121
  • BOU 111: Building drawings 111
  • 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
  • WTW 134: Mathematics 134

Year 2

• Core modules:
  • BWT 210: Building science 210
  • BWT 220: Building science 220
  • EOW 222: Property law 222
  • 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
  • JCP 201: Community-based project 201
  • SKE 220: Civil engineering services 220
  • STK 110: Statistics 110
  • STK 161: Statistics 161
  • TRN 213: Site surveying 213

Year 3

• Core modules:
  • BER 310: Business law 310
  • BHU 320: Housing 320
  • BWT 310: Building science 310
  • BWT 320: Building science 320
  • EDW 300: Property valuation 300
  • EWS 310: Real estate 310
  • EWS 320: Real estate 320
  • FBS 210: Financial management 210
  • GBD 311: Building services 311
  • KKR 322: Introduction to construction contract law 322
  • VKN 320: Sustainable construction 320

General Academic Regulations and Student Rules

The General Academic Regulations (G Regulations) and General Student Rules apply to all faculties and registered students of the University, as well as all prospective students who have accepted an offer of a place at the University of Pretoria. On registering for a programme, the student bears the responsibility of ensuring that they familiarise themselves with the General Academic Regulations applicable to their registration, as well as the relevant faculty-specific and programme-specific regulations and information as stipulated in the relevant yearbook. Ignorance concerning these regulations will not be accepted as an excuse for any transgression, or basis for an exception to any of the aforementioned regulations.