MSc Real Estate
Duration
- 12 months full-time
Overview
This programme will enable you to understand the workings of real estate markets and appropriate techniques applied in these markets. Graduates can equip themselves with the key real estate skills necessary to embark on a wide range of careers in the global real estate sector. It provides the maximum choice of subjects while drawing on the strengths of Real Estate at Reading. The programme is designed to be industry facing incorporating, 'real world' case studies, field trips and a one week industry challenge. It is especially suitable for those graduates with a non-property related degree who wish to develop skills and knowledge in the real estate sector.
Structure
Compulsory modules
- Investment appraisal
- Introduction to corporate finance
- Real estate economics
- Field trip
- Real estate opportunities
Optional modules
- Real estate appraisal & valuation
- Real estate management
- Real estate investment & securities
- Real estate development
- International real estate markets
- Housing economics
- Landlord & tenant law
- Introduction to law; Sustainability and real estate; Quantitative methods for real estate investment
Assessment
Exams and individual and group assignments
Entry requirements
You are expected to have obtained a UK upper second class honours degree, or the equivalent. Students whose first language is not English are required to provide evidence of proficiency in English.
Careers
Our students are regularly employed by the largest and most prestigious international real estate service providers including: Jones Lang LaSalle, DTZ, BNP Paribas, Cushman & Wakefield, King Sturge, Knight Frank, Savills, and CBRE.
Reading graduates have progressed to the most senior positions in these and other organisations both in the UK and around the world. Our international students readily gain employment in the real estate industry in their home or other countries.
Additionally, real estate graduates increasingly find employment within the wider investment advisory industry (with both specialist and non-specialist real estate investors), the banking industry, mortgage providers, management consultants, insurance companies, the property development industry, voluntary sector organisations and the private corporate sector.
Come and meet us
Please contact us if you would like any further information, or would like to pay us a visit. We can arrange a one-to-one meeting for you with one of our programme directors and you can enjoy a tour of our beautiful parkland campus at one of our regular open days.