BSc (Hons) Rural Enterprise and Land Management (REALM) (with placement) at Harper Adams University

REALM is all about making the best land use decisions, ensuring the most effective and most economical use of a wide range of rural assets or resources to achieve a clients’ or business’ objectives. Resources typically include land, infrastructure, buildings and equipment but they also include the management of a clients financial, physical and natural resources. Rural Practice Chartered Surveyors play a vital role in managing the countryside whilst helping rural businesses to thrive.

Department: Land and Property Management  |  Duration: 4 years (full-time) including a one-year work placement. A three year programme is available for applicants with at least two years, full-time relevant work experience.  |  Study mode: full-time (sandwich, one-year work placement)  |  Intake: 2027 entry  |  Location: Newport, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1: Academic Development and Professional Practice, Surveying Practice, Building Construction, Pathology and Regulation, Rural Land Issues and Policy Development, Introduction to Agricultural Production Systems, Valuation with Land and Property Economics. Year 2: Career and Data Management, Farming and Management of the Natural Environment, Planning and Development, Compulsory Purchase and Sustainable Rural Infrastructure Delivery, Property Agency and Tenancy Law, Valuation, Taxation and Investment Appraisal. Year 3 is the placement year. Year 4: Dissertation - Land and Property Management, Valuation and Professional Practice (REALM), Strategic Estate Management, Farm Business Management and Investment.

Career pathways

Rural practice chartered surveyors are to be found working in: Large, medium and smaller professional firms of Rural Practice Chartered Surveyors providing a range of land and property management services Central and local government, providing advice to farmers and landowners managing country parks and country smallholding estates The management of rural land and property for bodies as diverse as the RSPB, English Nature, National Parks and water and mineral companies, National Trust.

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