This highly regarded three-year degree course offers you a proven route to rewarding careers in the management of land, property and business in the countryside. The course provides the diverse knowledge and skills necessary to prepare you for work advising owners and occupiers of rural property on how to make the most of property assets and businesses. To prepare you effectively for the workplace a wide range of subjects is covered. As well as developing an understanding of agriculture and farm management to underpin professional practice, you are introduced to the core property subjects of law, valuation, building construction and management, and planning and development. You will also be given the essential understanding of business to enable you to provide effective advice about farm, estate and other rural businesses in practice. The course is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and - typically - a graduate is employed as a trainee with a firm of chartered surveyors and undertakes a two-year Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) in one of the specialist areas of practice recognised by the RICS to qualify as a chartered surveyor. Graduates may also seek qualification as an agricultural valuer with the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV).

We have an excellent employment record, and the wide network of former students ensures a warm welcome for our graduates throughout the land management profession. Nationally and internationally recognised firms of chartered surveyors recruit regularly from our course. We also place graduates in many other APC training jobs, as they arise, with smaller firms, private estates and other large landowners, such as the National Trust. The academic staff of the School will support you in your career applications and assist you in the first and second year to find work experience placements for your vacations. This work experience is invaluable to enable you to make your own contacts in the profession and gain an understanding of the diverse nature of professional work so that you can decide on the type of work that you would most enjoy. Should you decide not to follow a career in the surveying profession, many alternatives are open to you, including further study for a higher degree, or a career in law or accountancy, as well as normal graduate opportunities in industry and business. Again our network provides contacts in many suitable fields of employment.