Urban Planning and Real Estate BSc

• This BSc offers students a broad-based education in the built environment with an opportunity to specialise in real estate. It provides students with a route towards professional accreditation by the two most internationally recognised professional bodies for built environment professionals in the UK (see accreditation above).

• The Bartlett's strong research track record and links to professional practice will feed into the core and specialist aspects of the programme, ensuring that contemporary challenges and issues in theory and practice are addressed.

• In addition to the academic activities at the school and across UCL, London offers built environment students an unrivalled concentration of professional meetings, seminars, conferences, exhibitions and events which will greatly enrich your education.

• The Bartlett maintains an international outlook and provides opportunities for combined study overseas in Europe, North America, Australia and Hong Kong.

Minimum equivalent entry requirement for A level grades ABB (2022 entry)

Any student who is not a national of a UK Home Office majority English-speaking country is required to provide recent evidence regarding their command of spoken and written English.

The required evidence should, if possible, by included with the complete application. If either unsatisfactory or no evidence of English language proficiency has been provided with the application, admission will be conditional upon the provision of such evidence. This condition will be clearly indicated on the offer letter and must be fulfilled before enrolment at UCL.

UCL reserves the right, in individual circumstances, to specify an additional language requirement for an applicant.

The required evidence may be one of the following:

• Bostwana
• Cameroon (only if the qualification is taught in English)
• Canada
• Caribbean/West Indies (English-speaking Caribbean Commonwealth territories)
• Dominica
• Fiji
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Grenada
• Guyana
• Ireland
• Jamaica
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Malta (where the degree is taught entirely in English)
• Mauritius
• New Zealand
• Nigeria
• Singapore
• South Africa
• St Kitts and Nevis
• St Lucia
• St Vincent and the Grenadines
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• The Bahamas
• Trinidad and Tobago
• The Netherlands (where the degree is taught entirely in English)
• Uganda
• United Kingdom
• United States of America
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

2. Completed a minimum of 18 months of work experience in a country that UCL considers to be "majority English-speaking", no more than two years prior to the proposed date of enrolment.

3. Recently obtained acceptable English language qualification or test result. The qualification or test result must have been awarded no more than two years prior to the proposed start date of enrolment or the summer two year prior to the intended start date for qualifications taken as part of the school curriculum e.g. GCSE English.

This programme enables you to acquire highly transferable knowledge and skills such as data collection, analysis and presentation, graphic skills, the ability to resolve problems and conflicts, negotiation and mediation, team work and leadership, managing work tasks, preparing and writing professional reports, as well as written, graphic, and oral presentation skills.

Graduates will be equipped to take up employment in a vast range of positions within the property and planning professions where their analytical, negotiating and problem-solving skills will be valued. Demand for people with planning skills combined with knowledge of the real estate sector in the UK and abroad is strong.

Our students go on to work for a range of employers in the private, public and third sectors, including property companies, surveying firms, planning consultancies, developers, in the civil service, and in local and international non-governmental organisations. Due to the nature of our BSc programmes as a route for eligible membership of RICS/RTPI, it is also expected that many of our students will go on to further study.

UCL is committed to helping you get the best start after graduation. Read more about how UCL Careers and UCL Innovation and Enterprise can help you find employment or learn about entrepreneurship.

Applying to UCL

International students should apply to UCL via UCAS, using the same process as UK&students.

It is likely that the British Council office(s)&in your country will also have information&about UCAS.

International entry requirements

Providing evidence of your English ability

Any student who is not a national of a UK Home Office majority English-speaking country is required to provide recent evidence regarding their command of spoken and written English.

GCSE/IGCSE English language

Standard level&Pass at 5 (or grade C)
Good level&Pass at 5 (or grade C)
Advanced level&Pass at 6 (or grade B)

British Council International Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Version)

Standard level: Overall grade of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each of the subtests.
Good level: Overall grade of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each of the subtests.
Advanced level: Overall grade of 7.5 with a minimum of 6.5 in each of the subtests.

Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)