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How to become a Construction & Property Professional

Costs, manages and values construction projects and property.

This needs more than the degree

Most routes into this field end in registration with SACQSP or SACPCMP after your degree, with further experience and board requirements that vary by specialisation – check the current requirements for the specific route you’re aiming at.

What does a Construction & Property Professional actually do?

More about this career

Quantity surveyors cost a construction project from the first sketch to the final invoice – estimating materials and labour, managing budgets and valuing the work as it’s built. It’s one of the more secure built-environment careers, since every project, public or private, needs one.

Where this degree can take you

  • Construction Cost Manager
  • Property Valuer
  • Contracts Manager
  • Project Manager (construction)

This is our general description of the role and related jobs, not from an official source – it’s here to give you a fuller picture, not as a careers-counselling guarantee.

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Subjects that usually help

  • Mathematics
  • Physical Sciences (for some routes)

This is our general guidance about which school subjects suit this career. It is not an admission requirement and not from an official source – the real requirements are on the degrees below.

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Where to check this yourself

What the degrees we’ve captured actually ask for

  • Mathematics – asked for by 4 of 4 degrees
  • Physical Sciences – asked for by 1 of 4 degrees

Counted from the requirements below (an “or” alternative counts for each subject named). Each degree links to the page it came from.

Degrees that lead here

4 degrees at 2 universities. More are added as we verify them.

University of Cape Town

BSc Construction Studies

Engineering & the Built Environment · 3 years

UCT Faculty Points Score 450 out of 600 (band a)

  • Mathematics: 65%
  • Physical Sciences: 60%

Band A (guaranteed offer) is an FPS of 450. Band B (likely offer) is a WPS of 420 - the WPS adds a 0-10% disadvantage factor that we cannot work out from your marks, so we only check you against Band A. Band C (390) applies to redress categories only. Physical Sciences 60% applies to Band A; Bands B and C need 55%.

Source: View the official page (uct.ac.za) (opens the official page) · 2027 intake

BSc Property Studies

Engineering & the Built Environment · 3 years

UCT Faculty Points Score 450 out of 600 (band a)

  • Mathematics: 65%

Band A (guaranteed offer) is an FPS of 450. Band B (likely offer) is a WPS of 420 - the WPS adds a 0-10% disadvantage factor that we cannot work out from your marks, so we only check you against Band A. Band C (390) applies to redress categories only.

Source: View the official page (uct.ac.za) (opens the official page) · 2027 intake

University of the Witwatersrand

From an older document

Construction Studies

Engineering & the Built Environment · 3 years

Wits APS 36 points

  • English: level 5 if it is your Home Language, level 5 if it is your First Additional Language
  • Mathematics: level 5 (60% or more)

This figure comes from the Wits schools-liaison Grade 12 guide, which is headed for 2026 entry. We have not yet found a 2027 course-finder page confirming it, so treat it as the most recent official figure rather than a confirmed 2027 one.

Source: View the official page (wits.ac.za) (opens the official page) · 2027 intake

From an older document

Property Studies

Engineering & the Built Environment · 3 years

Wits APS 36 points

  • English: level 5 if it is your Home Language, level 5 if it is your First Additional Language
  • Mathematics: level 5 (60% or more)

This figure comes from the Wits schools-liaison Grade 12 guide, which is headed for 2026 entry. We have not yet found a 2027 course-finder page confirming it, so treat it as the most recent official figure rather than a confirmed 2027 one.

Source: View the official page (wits.ac.za) (opens the official page) · 2027 intake

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