Commercial Management and Quantity Surveying (Online) Heriot-Watt University

Overview

The Commercial Management and Quantity Surveying (Online) MSc degree from Heriot-Watt University Dubai is designed to meet the needs of the financial management and quantity surveying sectors. The degree offers a solid theoretical base, combined with a strong focus on industrial relevance. This means that you’ll quickly be able to make a positive contribution to the success of your working environment, and the development of your own professional career. The students are often recruited by international construction and quantity surveying practices. Graduates also develop careers across different sectors of industry and commerce.

Key facts:

The overall approach in the programme teaching and learning is student-focused, which is designed to encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning and development.

Programme learning objectives ensure transmission of core knowledge relevant to each course. The level of competency required provides the academic rigour appropriate to Masters programmes. This is achieved through traditional methods of teaching and learning, and can be summatively assessed in examinations.

Programme leaning outcomes come from overarching Discipline themes. Achievement of them demonstrates skill and mastery of the subject at advanced level and requires students to make value judgements relevant to quantity surveying through reasoned application of core knowledge. This is achieved through student interaction with integrated project work which is assessed by assignment. The requisite competencies related to Subject Mastery are acquired and developed through lectures, tutorials, group work and integrated design project. The design project reinforces the development of subject-specific skills through a co-ordinated set of projects ensuring an interdisciplinary approach to developing professional skills.