Property Development and Planning BSc (Hons)
Nottingham Trent University
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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

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City Campus

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Sandwich

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Start date

SEP-25

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4 Years

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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

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City Campus

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4 Years

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Property development and planning is fundamental to the growth of the property industry – from scheme proposal, site identification and analysis, through to design, viability, finance and marketing. This course has been developed to enable you to focus on adding value to land and property, as an adviser, consultant or developer of the future.Youll gain a comprehensive understanding of areas including spatial and urban design, site appraisal, sustainability, planning and development consultancy ...Read more

Property development and planning is fundamental to the growth of the property industry – from scheme proposal, site identification and analysis, through to design, viability, finance and marketing. This course has been developed to enable you to focus on adding value to land and property, as an adviser, consultant or developer of the future.You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of areas including spatial and urban design, site appraisal, sustainability, planning and development consultancy and management of the development process. Alongside specialist and technical knowledge you'll focus on business planning, client care and negotiation and develop the core surveying competencies required in industry.


Key Features

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Professional Accreditation

| This course is triple accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) — representing your first step towards Chartered status.-


Industry-Facing Projects

| Apply your learning to the real world, with opportunities to take part in live projects as part of the course. Your assessments will be based on real projects, supported by companies such as JLL, Rolls-Royce and Igloo.-


Professional Facilities

| You'll have the opportunity to utilise our professional-level equipment and software – including digital mapping, environmental risk information and industry information systems and databases – to complete project work.-


Placement Year

| You'll gain vital skills and experience by undertaking a one-year placement on our sandwich route. Previously students have spent their placements at Lambert Smith Hampton, Barker Storey Matthews and Jaguar Land Rover. -


Destination Study Visits

| Field trips and study visits are an important part of your learning on this course. Previous trips have included destinations in Madrid, Milan, Dublin, Malta and Berlin.


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Top 3 Ranking

| We're renowned — NTU is ranked Top 3 in the UK for Land & Property Management subjects (Complete University Guide 2023).-


Top 2 Ranking

| NTU is the 2nd most sustainable university in the world (UI GreenMetric World University Rankings 2023).-


Graduate Outcomes

| 100% of BSc (Hons) Property Development and Planning full-time and sandwich graduates are in work or further study within 15 months of finishing their degrees (latest Graduate Outcomes Survey 2020/21).-


Graduate Outcomes

| NTU is joint 2nd for the percentage of Construction, Surveying and Planning graduates who are in graduate-level jobs, further higher education or professional study within 15 months of graduating (Guardian University Guide, 2023).

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WUSCA ranking:
WUSCA student ranking
These are the 2024 rankings, based on ratings given by past and current students.
16/101
CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
21st
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
45th
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Drop-out rate
Drop-out rate
The percentage of students who didn't finish the course.
Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 91 = 9% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
9%
Employment rate
Employment rate
The percentage of students in full-time work 6 months after finishing their course.
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
95%
Average salary
Average salary
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Building graduate salary at this uni
£26,000
UK Building graduate salary
£26,000
What students say
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Ethan
17 Jan 25

The best decision I made was picking this university, when I looked around other university no where as welcoming but also made me feel at calm. Now couple months in I can see how..Read more

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Raven
17 Jan 25

Best part is the people and how you can’t really be lonely here. Worst part is how there is only one library on City Campus so it is always so busy inside...Read more

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We will consider T Levels for entry to this course, either as stand-alone qualifications or in conjunction with other Level 3 qualifications, in accordance with the specified course tariff points.

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