Certificate - Built Environment
- 1 year
- Duration
- 14,900 GBP
- Price
- Sep 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Certificate
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- London / United Kingdom
- Location
Program description
If you're a mature student wishing to advance your profession, or if you don't meet the admission standards for a degree program, this preparatory year is for you.
This is not a stand-alone diploma. First year of a four-year degree program in one of the built environment professions: architecture, surveying, or construction management.
You'll be able to narrow down your options based on what you learn and how you interact with tutors during the course of the year.
Complete course successfully and you can choose from a number of courses – take a look to see where the next few years could take you:
- BA (Hons) Architecture (RIBA Part 1)
- BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology
- BSc (Hons) Construction Management
- BSc (Hons) Commercial Management (Quantity Surveying)
- BSc (Hons) Building Surveying (with HNC Construction).
Education takes place on Southwark Campus
Program structure
Modules
- Art and design
- Constructing the built environment
- Construction mathematics
- Design concepts
- Integrated project
- Practical skills for architecture
- Practical skills for construction
- Principles of construction science
- Study skills
Price
Fee for the entire duration of education is 14900.00 pounds sterling for international students
Requirements for applicants
- A Level EEE or
- BTEC National Diploma - MPP or
- Access to HE qualifications with 45 Passes or
- Equivalent level 3 qualifications worth 64 UCAS points
- Applicants must hold 5 GCSEs A-C including Maths and English or equivalent (reformed GCSEs grade 4 or above).
- Candidates over 21 who may not have appropriate formal qualifications for direct entry. Such candidates will normally be required to attend for interview at which time they will be encouraged to demonstrate their suitability for and commitment to study at higher education level
- Candidates under 21 who do have the requisite number and level of GCSE or BTEC passes, but in the wrong subjects for chosen degree (i.e. student wishing to study architecture, but with A-levels in science subjects).
English language qualifications for international students:
- IELTS score of 6.0 or Cambridge Proficiency or Advanced Grade C
We welcome qualifications from around the world. For information about the requirements for your country, please contact us using the feedback form.
About the university
Established in south London in 1892 as the Borough Polytechnic Institute, we have since contributed to the betterment of local students, businesses, and residents.
The original goal of the organization—"to promote the industrial skill, general knowledge, health, and well-being of young men and women"—remains at the heart of what we do today. Our students will be prepared for the challenges of the modern workplace thanks to our hands-on, career-focused curriculum.
Our campuses
- Southwark campus
- Croydon campus
- Havering campus
Our faculties
Our courses are developed in collaboration with leading companies, and we provide internships and co-ops to help you launch your career. Our instructors are experts in their fields because they have, in all likelihood, been in the situations they teach about firsthand.
We have more than 200 courses for students to enrol on.
Here are some of the topics in which we can provide training: Accounting and Finance, Architecture, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Business and Management, Computer Science, Criminology and Sociology, Drama and Theatre, Economics, Engineering, Law, Marketing, Nursing and Miswifery, Psychology, Social Care, Sport and others.
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