About the School of the Built Environment

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Careers

What kind of job could I get after graduating from the School of the Built Environment, and where could I work? are two very important questions. Recently Salford University Careers Office released 2010 graduate survey results and our School's graduate employability reaches 90%. Declared undergraduate average salaries are around 23,000GBP and at PG level are 42,000GBP.
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Students of the Built Environment

We have over 1400 undergraduate students, around 600 Masters students, and 240 PhD research students from all over the world.
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Academic Enterprise Centres

Academic Enterprise Centres are how the University of Salford disseminates research outcomes by doing consultancy for industrial companies or other clients.
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Our staff

Our internationally renowned academics, many with practical experience, come from professional and culturally diverse backgrounds to offer students leading edge, world class thinking.
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Our courses

We offer a range of management-focused, professionally accredited, undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses developed with built environment industries to meet their needs.

Courses can be studied full-time, part-time or online - options which allow students to combine a career with study.

At undergraduate level our full-time courses offer industrial placement and sponsorship opportunities. Around 65% of our graduates achieve a first or 2:1 degree (compared to a national average of 52% in the same subjects) and 96% of our graduates find related employment, or go on to further study by the time they graduate.

We also offer world-class research opportunities for professional development. The research arm of the School of the Built Environment is the UK's most successful. Our research themes embrace information communication technology, management, and the environment.
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Research

The School has been leading the research agenda in the built environment for more than 20 years, continuously rated top in the national Research Assessment Exercises and top research power school during the last of these exercises in the UK. We are world-renowned in areas such as sustainability, energy, urban and regional futures, construction management, lean construction, Building Information Management and strategic IT, disaster resilience, procurement, quantity and building surveying and architecture, among others.
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