MSc Construction Project Management

Start date: September and January.

Course length: full time: one year, part time: two-three years.

Campus: Markeaton Street site, Derby Campus

Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology

School: School of Technology

This course is available to international students

Throughout the course you will be encouraged to develop and cultivate your knowledge of modern construction management principles and relate them directly to your current and/or future professional employment roles within the industry. The course develops and builds on traditional management skills and disciplines and places them in their historical context. In this way you will see how methodologies have been changed and adapted as sustainable construction projects have grown increasingly complex.

The combination of core and optional modules enables the construction and facilities managers to tailor their studies to address topics important in successfully achieving and maintaining sustainable built environments, whether they be significant property developments or private finance initiative projects including hospital, airports facilities and office development.

This course is made up of three stages - Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma and MSc. If you start this course in January the pattern of modules you study will vary slightly.

Postgraduate Certificate

You'll study these modules:

• Research Methods: Application and Evaluation
• Asset and Facilities Management
• Construction Contracts and Dispute Resolution

Postgraduate Diploma

You'll study these modules:

• CPD and Strategic Management

You'll choose from two of these modules:

• Project Management and Financial Accounting
• Environmental Performance Management for Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Construction Methods and Materials
• Negotiated Module

MSc

You'll study this module:

• Independent Scholarship (Technology).

For details on the part time module structure, please contact the Programme Leader.

A Degree or equivalent in a Construction Management, Project Management, Civil Engineering or Construction related discipline. 

UK/EU students

• £495 per module (you usually take 9 of these modules in total)

International students

• Full time: £10,760 (in total)

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

The MSc Construction Project Management will use a range of assessment techniques including computer workshop based project reviews and portfolios, assignments, case studies, oral and graphic presentations, collaborative, online, and interdisciplinary team work projects and examinations, so providing a flexible and effective means of assessing your progress. Theoretical concepts and practical application will be covered in traditional lectures, supported by laboratory based sessions, tutorials and seminars. 

Transferable skills are those which may be taken into other fields of activity. They are diverse, but include the ability to define objectives and methodology pertinent to the chosen research problem, work autonomously, work in a team, problem solving skills, professional judgment, ability to take initiative in complex and unpredictable circumstances, and to manage other people, processes or organisations.