School of Architecture and Building
Faculty of Science and Technology
Construction Management (CM) is a well-established and respected degree that prepares graduates for a challenging career in the delivery of complex physical infrastructure within time, cost and quality objectives, including integral and accredited specialisations in quantity surveying and building surveying.
CM is a global profession with clear opportunities to travel and work overseas. Graduates typically find employment as project managers for large contracting organisations or as quantity or building surveying consultants. Salaries are high, with 100% of Deakin graduates over the last 8 years finding relevant employment in their first year out (Graduate Destination Surveys 1998-2005).
Construction managers are not site operatives, but are nevertheless often found on building sites. They manage site operatives and ensure that client objectives, profit targets and occupational health and safety requirements are fulfilled. This requires knowledge of human resource management, commerce, law, contract administration, industrial relations, estimating and financial risk, technology, computing, and environmental sustainability--and how they interact.
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Deakin's undergraduate degree in Construction Management is available in either normal (four years) or accelerated (three years) patterns, depending on your choice to study continuously, have summer vacations, or as an early exit option from the combined degree in Infrastructure Logistics.
In either mode the course comprises eight semesters (32 credit points) of full-time study. The advantage of the accelerated pattern is that it enables students to graduate a full-year earlier, subject to work experience requirements, and thereby get out there faster earning a good salary. This option is unique in Australia and it is increasingly expected to draw students from the city-based universities that use more traditional attendance patterns. The summer sessions, which enable the full course to be delivered in less overall time, comprise online units that can be completed without physical attendance on-campus.
Detailed course structure of both the normal and accelerated courses.
This course satisfies the educational requirements of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), the Australian Institute of Building (AIB) and the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS). Depending on elective choice, recognition for practice as a building surveyor is also possible.
You must complete at least eighty working days of industry-based experience to meet Australian professional requirements, but this experience can be acquired prior to course commencement. It is preferable that you have at least six months experience before graduation, and Deakin staff will assist you in locating suitable work if requested.
The course accepts applicants with advanced standing for either extensive industry experience (ten years or more) and/or previous academic qualifications, up to 50% of the course units. Prerequisites are Units 3 and 4 - English (any).
Middle band students with a study score of at least 20 in up to three of chemistry, physics, specialist mathematics, mathematical methods or visual communication and design will have their ENTER increased up to one point higher per study, to a maximum three points.
View the Deakin handbook entry for this course.