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How to become a Construction & Property Professional

Costs, manages and values construction projects and property.

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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