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University	Undergraduate courses on offer/ number of places every year	Companies it’s got links to	What they do
University of Bristol	MEngCivil Engineering BEngCivil Engineering Between 70 and 80 undergraduate places every year.	Arup,Atkins,Building Design Partnership,Buro Happold,Faber Maunsell,Flint and Neill,Halcrow,Hyder,Mott MacDonald,Mouchel Parkman,Peter Brett Associates,Parsons Brinckerhoff,Tony Gee & Partners,Balfour Beatty,Costain,Edmund Nuttall,Hochtief (UK),Interroute,Pearce Group,Skanska,Sir Robert McAlpine,Taylor Woodrow	Lecturers work in collaboration with companies on research and consultancy. Visiting lecturers include representatives from Arup. In the first year student has a tutor from industry, many keep the relationship going throughout their course.Students apply to the Industrial Scholarship scheme during their 1st or 2nd academic year. If successful, they undertake paid employment for eight weeks in the summer vacations, and an annual bursary of at least £1200.
University of Cambridge	BA Tripos (Architecture)40-45 undergraduate places every year	Good relationships with Lords Foster and Rogers and big London architects such as Eric Parry and Freeland Rees Roberts.	Visiting lecturers have their own practices. Full-time lecturers often used to, or still do, have their own practices. External examiners usually work for major London-based firms.
Cardiff University	BEng/MEngCivil and Environmental Engineering Architectural Engineering BSc/MArch Architectural Studies About 140 undergraduate places every year.	All of the major consultants, Balfour Beatty, Costain, Gleeson, Laing O’Rouke, Holder Mathias, Haverstock Associates, Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects, Powell Dobson Partnership, Mike Sutton Architects, B3 Burgess, Arup, Chris Loyn Architects, HLN Architects, Magyar and Marsoni, Patel and Taylor, Pierre d’Avoine, Pentan Partnership, Sassi Chamberlain, Mark Power Architects, Studio 8 Architects, Burroughs, Willdig Lammie, White Young Green, Plastik Architects, Pollock Thomas and Edwards, Dixon Jones, Cannon Brooks Lighting and Design, Churchill Hoi, Phil Cotton Architects, AEDAS Architects, Pitman Tozer, Huigh Whatley and Co, John Winters Architects, John Stebbing Architects, Hyde and Hyde, Hoole and Walmesly Architects, Snug Projects, AOC Architecture, Redman Architecture	A professor sponsored by Halcrow. Consultants delivers professional studies modules. Representatives from Balfour Beatty, Costain, Gleeson, and Laing O’Rouke also deliver lectures. Centre for Research in the Built Environment(CRiBE) manages research and consultancy activity in partnership with private firms.
Glasgow Caledonian University	BSc (Hons)Quantity Surveying Construction Management Environmental Civil Engineering Building Control Surveying Around 250 undergraduate places every year.	Currently has links with well over 100 employers	Guest presentations on recruitment and innovative projects. Site visits.Wide range of collaborative research and consultancy.Rolling programme of continuing professional development.QS Advisory Board to ensure regular industry consultation.Student sponsorship. Industrial placements for full time students, ranging from 6 to 12 months in duration..
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh	BSc (Ordinary) and BSc (Hons) Construction Management (can be with building services or project management as specialisms)BSc HonsQuantity Surveying(can be with building services as specialism)BSc (Ordinary) and BEng (Hons) Building SurveyingBSc (Hons), BEng (Hons) and MEngArchitectural Engineering BEng (Hons), MEng Civil Engineering BEng (Hons), MEngStructural Engineering Around 200 undergraduate places every year.	Links with a large number of organisations, both in the UK and overseas. These include consultants, project management organizations, contractors, local authorities and government bodies	Industry liaison panels. Many of our academic staff are actively involved in professional institution activities as well as government bodies.Student sponsorship scheme involving 15 built environment organisations.Provide visiting lecturers.Access to construction sites and the provision of project information. Wide range of research activities.
Imperial College London	MEngCivil Engineering MengCivil and Environmental Engineering Around 90 undergraduate places every year.	John Doyle Construction, Expedition Engineering, Shepherd Construction, MacFarlanes, Crane Environmental, Finnforest UK, Colin Buchanan & Partners, CTRL, Skanska, SERCO, TfL, Mott MacDonald, Lankelma, Arup, Atkins, The Met Office, Brian Bell Associates, Cass Hayward Parnership	Visiting lecturers from Buro Happold and others; sponsored academic staff; majority of lecturers do consultancy work.Students are sponsored by the Institution of Civil Engineers and private companies. Senior employees help students with design projects.Week-long residential course part-funded by Expedition Engineering and John Doyle Construction.
Kingston University, London	BSc(Hons)Building Surveying Foundation DegreeConstruction Engineering BSc(Hons)Construction Management BSc(Hons)Quantity Surveying Consultancy BEng(Hons)/ BSc(Hons)Civil Engineering BSc(Hons)Construction Management Around 230 undergraduate places every year.	EC Harris, Atkins, Gleeds, Costain, Knight Frank, Jones Lang LaSalle, GVA Grimley, King Sturge, Grosvenor, CB Richard Ellis, Colliers CRE, Cushman and Wakefield, DTZ and Atis Real	Guest lecturers. Alumni often come back as part of their firm’s ‘milk rounds.’ Work shadowing scheme for first year students in which they are teamed up with a recent graduate so that they can a flavour of life at work.Student sponsorship; year in industry and summer placements. Permanent positions are not unusual. Members of our academic staff are invited to Employer Training Forums. Some staff members involved in professional practice and consultancy. Students provide a professional consultancy service under supervision.
Loughborough University	BSc Construction Engineering Management20-30 each yearBSc (Hons) Commercial Management and Quantity Surveying40-50 each yearBSc (Hons) Architectural Engineering & Design Management30-40 each yearBeng/Meng Civil Engineering40-50 each year160 undergraduate places every year.	Amec, Balfour Beatty, Bovis Lend Lease, Carillion, Costain, HBG Construction, GallifordTry, Kier Group, Laing O’Rourke, Mott MacDonald, Norwest Holst, ROK, Shepherd, SKANSKA, Taylor Woodrow, Walter Lilly	16 companies host site visits, guest lecture, fund research and assist with course work.All students on the BSc in Construction Engineering Management andBSc Commercial Management and Quantity Surveying courses receive sponsorship from one of the 16 companies. They all have summer work placements, a year in industry with a salary and jobs once they graduate. A smaller number of students on the Architectural Engineering & Design Management and Civil Engineering courses are sponsored.
The University of Manchester	MengCivil and Structural Engineering BengCivil EngineeringMengCivil Engineering with Industrial ExperienceAround 110 undergraduate places every year.	Clancy, Fabermaunsel, BDP, Hoare Lea, Barratt Homes, Arup, Aedas Architects, Whitby Bird, Amec, BAe Systems, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd., Exxon, Corus, EDS, Ferro Group, Magnox and Ove Arup.	Clancy, Fabermaunsell, BDP provide advice on programme development for undergraduate courses. Clancy have delivered some lectures, and BDP are helping on a student project as have Fabermaunsell and Hoare Lea.Undergraduate students have indirect involvement in Barratt Homes’s EcoSmart Show Village in Chorley, Lancashire. The University also works on collaborative projects with Arup, Aedas Architects, BAe Systems, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd., Corus, EDS, Ferro Group, Magnox, Exxon and Ove Arup and others.Arup, Hoare Lea, Whitby Bird, Amec sit on the MSc Steering Committee for relevant engineering courses. Such relationships inform teaching at undergraduate level.
NorthumbriaUniversity	BA (Hons) Architectural Design and Management BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology Professional DiplomaArchitecture BSc (Hons) Building Design Management BSc (Hons) Building Project Management Beng (Hons) Building Services Engineering BSc (Hons) Building Surveying BSc (Hons)Commercial Quantity Surveying BSc (Hons) Construction Management BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying Around 400 undergraduate places every year.	Desco (Design & Consultancy), Jackson Coulson Partnership,Atkins,Martin Design Associates, TGA Consulting Engineers, Armstrong Rhead Partnership, White Young Green, Embleton Environmental Products, Troup Bywaters & Anders, BES Consulting Engineers, WSP Buildings, Buro Happold, Steensen Varming Australia, NG Bailey, Allaway Acoustics, Turner & Townsend, Gardner & Theobald, Hall & Partners, Faithful & Gould, Mentor Construction, Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Tolent, Wates Construction, Faulkner Brown, RyderHKS, Waring & Netts,Jerram Falkus, Laing O’Rourke, McCarthy and Stone, Tolent Turner & Townsend, EC Harris, Troup Bywaters + Anders, Balfour Beatty, AB Rhead Associates, Kier Northern, Ryders, Interserve - Project Services, Davis Langdon, Bucknall Austin, Hill McGlynn, Sir Robert McAlpine, Chisholme Nurser and King Sturge	Full time Building Services Engineering degree students are sponsored by a consortium of building services engineering consultants and contractors who provide advisors to course teams.They include: Desco (Design & Consultancy) Jackson Coulson PartnershipAtkins Martin Design Associates TGA Consulting Engineers Armstrong Rhead Partnership White Young Green Embleton Environmental Products Troup Bywaters & Anders BES Consulting Engineers WSP Buildings Buro Happold Steensen Varming Australia, NG Bailey Allaway AcousticsMajor employers and sponsors of Quantity surveying students include:Turner & Townsend, Gardner & Theobald, Hall & Partners, Faithful & Gould, Mentor Construction, Laing O’Rouke, Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Tolent, Wates Construction. Major employers and advisors on course teams are:Faulkner Brown, RyderHKS, Waring & Netts, Balfour Beatty, Jerram Falkus, Laing O’Rourke, McCarthy and Stone, TolentThe school’s Careers Fair attracts representation from: Turner & Townsend, EC Harris, Troup Bywaters Anders, Balfour Beatty, RICS, Faithful & Gould, Atkins, AB Rhead Associates, Kier Northern, Ryders, Interserve Project Services, Davis Langdon, Bucknall Austin, Hill McGlynn, Sir Robert McAlpine.Chisholme Nurser and King Sturge are involved in the development of the Building Surveying course and sponsor prizes for successful students.
The University of Nottingham	BEng (Hons)/ MEng (Hons)Civil and Environmental Engineering BEng (Hons)/MEng (Hons)Civil Engineering BEng (Hons)/MEng (Hons)Civil Engineering with French or GermanAround 400 undergraduate places every year	Contact with over 30 firms	Sponsorship scheme and associated vacation work.Careers fairs.Lunchtime presentations to undergrads (mainly with a recruitment theme). ‘Engineering Advisors’ who visit the school to help out with group projects.
Oxford Brookes University	BA (Hons)Architecture Around 120 undergraduate places every year.BSc Construction Management and BSc Building. Around 45 undergraduate places every year.	Approximately 50 companies including:Alfred McAlpine, Arup, Balfour Beatty, Bluestone, Bouygues UK Ltd,Bowmer & Kirkland, Buro-Four, Carillion, Gardiner & Theobald, HBG Construction, Killby and Gayford, Kingerlee, Leadbitter Construction, Multiplex, Oakwood Builders, Pearce Group, Turner & Townsend	Architecture:Visiting lecturers, students find their own placementsBuilt environment:Guest Lecturers, Site Visits, Work Shadowing, Employer Liaison Group.Current research involves collaboration with Currie & Brown and Bovis Lend Lease. Around 40 companies take students on industrial experience each year. The majority of students return to their placement employers.25 companies attend Annual Real Estate and Construction Careers Fair, Around 10 companies give presentation and attend recruitment days
University of Reading	BSc Building Construction and ManagementBSc Building SurveyingBSc Construction Management and SurveyingBSc Quantity SurveyingAround 140 undergraduate places every year.	Davis Langdon, Gardiner & Theobald, Turner & Townsend, EC Harris, Carillion, Bailey Garner, Balfour Beatty, Higgins Group, Gleeds, Bovis Lend Lease, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska, Kier, Lang O’Rouke, HBG, Miller	Industrial partners are involved to differing levels in:student sponsorshipsrecruitment days employer liaison groupsresearch grantsindustrial placements to students during vacations.Student secures a job with a major company six months before they graduate.Lecturers work on research projects in collaboration with companies.
University of Salford	BSc (Hons) Architectural Design and Technology BSc (Hons) Building Surveying BSc (Hons) Construction Management BSc (Hons) Construction Project Management BSc (Hons) Property Management and Investment BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying Around 225 undergraduate places every year.	Totty,Rok,Keir,Simons GroupGleeson,Bovis LendLease,Interserve,Shepherd Construction,Balfour Beatty,Costain,Taylor Woodrow,Laing O’Rourke,Skanska,Hbg,Bramall Construction,Alfred McAlpine,G & J Seddon,Casey,Faithful & Gould,Capita,Atkins,Multibuild andEC Harris	All construction management students are sponsored by one of a group of companies in a consortium which advises on the content and structure of the course. This means that every student accepted onto the course receives funding from a particular firm, as well as work placements and a position upon graduation.Part-time students are sponsored by their employers, a group of firms that regularly fund their employees through degrees at Salford.Lecturers work on research projects in collaboration with companies.
The University of Sheffield	MEngStructural Engineering and Architecture MEngStructural Engineering Design MEngStructural Engineering with Architectural StudiesBADip/ArchLArchitecture and Landscape BA/LanPlanLandscape Architecture with Planning BADip/ArchArchitecture MEngCivil and Structural Engineering BEng/MEngCivil Engineering MEngCivil Engineering with a Modern Language MEngCivil Engineering with Business Management – BEngEngineering (Civil, Materials and Mechanical) MEngEngineering (Civil, Materials and Mechanical) Around 105 undergraduate places every year.	The Department of Civil and Structural Engineering has links with: Adams Kara Taylor, Arup, Atkins, Bachy Soletanche, Buro Happold, Babtie, Carillion, Eastwood and Partners, Edge Consultants, Gifford, Interserve Project Services, Kier, Mott McDonald, Morgan Est, Nuttall, SKM Anthony Hunt, Scott Wilson, Yorkshire Water.The school of architecture runs dual degrees with the school of engineering. Relationships with 40-50 companies.	The head of the School of Architecture is partly funded by Corus. A number of staff are part-time and are either sole practitioners or employees of firms of different sizes. Partner firms provide guest lecturers and representatives sit on the industrial liaison committee, which advises on changes in the curriculum. Lecturers shadow representatives in their day work, and do some research work. Firms offer summer vacation employment.
Sheffield Hallam University	BSc (Hons) Building Surveying HNC/HND Construction Engineering BSc (Hons) Construction Management BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology BSc (Hons) Architecture and Environmental Design Around 890 undergraduate places every year.	Over 250 industry and practice contacts	Guest lecturers and presentations from external industrialists. Associate lecturers who deliver modules and work in industry.A significant number go on to work with our industrial partners. Students start on a sandwich award, then come back to university after the placement year on a part-time basis, and then carry on with the same employer.
University of Southampton	BEng/MEng Civil EngineeringBEng/MEng Environmental EngineeringMEng Civil Engineering with Year in IndustryMEng Civil Engineering with ArchitectureMEng Civil Engineering with European StudiesMEng Environmental Engineering with European Studies80 undergraduate places every year	Abbey Pynford,Architecture PLB,Atkins,Balfour Beatty,Bovis LendLease,BP,Cleanaway,Costain,Environment Agency,Geoffery Osbourne Ltd,Gifford,Greenfinch,Halcrow,Hampshire County Counci,Highways Agency,John Sisk & Son Ltd,Kellogg Brown & Root,Kier Group,Laing O’Rourke,London Underground,Mott MacDonald,Network Rail,Norfolk County Council,Norwest HolstPeter Brett & Associates,RingwayScott-White & Hookins,Southampton City Council,Thames Water Utilities,Tony Gee & Partners,White Willow Consulting andWSP	Employer Liaison PanelSponsorship of studentsVacation employment for students.Research collaborationRecruitment events.
UCEBirmingham	BSc (Hons)Architectural Technology BSc (Hons) Property & ConstructionBSc (Hons)Construction Quantity Surveying BSc (Hons)Quantity Surveying BSc (Hons) Construction Management & EconomicsBSc (Hons) Building Surveying339 undergraduate places every year.	John Sisk,Wm Sapcote & Sons,Anglo Holt,Urban Splash,Davis Langdon,Ernst & Young,Interserve, Balfour Beatty,DBK Back, Pinnacle Consulting,Jacob Feasey Associates, Always Consulting,AB Rhead & Associates,Carillion,Pettifer Construction,Vixen Software,Nuttall,Miller Construction,Nisbett LLP,RLF,Walker Cotter,AEC Associates,Harris Lamb,Donaldsons,GVAGrimley,DTZ,Elmhurst,Regenco,Graphisoft,Mouchel Parkman,Ashford Construction,Thomas Vale Construction,Millar Roofing,Willmott Dixon andMartineau Johnson	Companies Provide speakers.Award prizes.Give site visits.Supplying practical experience.Involved in Employer Liaison Groups and examination boards.Attend potential student and parent visit days.Offer placements and student sponsorships. Students often end up working for an employer who they have met through their placement period.
UCL -University College London	BSc Project Management for Construction either 3 years or 4 years with a year in industry Around 35 undergraduate places every year.BSc Architecture Around 90 undergraduate places every year.	Project Management has close relationships with HBG, Bouygues, Capita Symonds, Davis Langdon, Wates Construction, Willmott Dixon, Woolf, Mace, EC Harris.More occasional relationships with a huge number of companies.Architecture has links with over 100 firms.	Half of academic staff involved in the Project Management course also work in industry and teach specialist modules.The companies that support the programme offer site visits, technical talks, opportunities for summer placements and year out placements.The Architecture course hasguest lecturers and design tutors who offerwork placements and specialist advice
University of Wolverhampton	BSc (Hons) Building SurveyingBSc (Hons) Civil EngineeringBSc (Hons) Civil Engineering ManagementBSc (Hons) Commercial Management and Quantity SurveyingBSc (Hons) Construction ManagementBSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying (formerly Surveying)About 250 undergraduate places every year	Bovis Homes, Bullock Construction, Carillion Building, EC Harris, JCB, Lovell Partnership, Mansell Construction Services, Mouchel Parkman Services, Mowlem Midlands, Persimmon Homes, Thomas Vale Construction, Wrekin Construction Limited, Laing O'Rourke, Kendrick Construction, Adonis Construction	Collaborative research, employer liaison groups and sponsorship.