Undergraduate courses
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Introduction
If you are looking for a degree that will give you the intellectual challenge of a Cambridge undergraduate course and a qualification that opens up many career opportunities, this is it. Law, economics and their relationship to the built and natural environment are at the heart of this course, but environmental protection, the principles of business regulation, the financial aspects of real estate and matters of international development are other areas of focus.
The course has a distinctive multidisciplinary nature and is very relevant to our world in the twenty-first century where the environment, law and economics and the control of scarce resources affect our daily lives and those of people around the world.
Our undergraduate teaching programme is a full, three year honours degree programme (known as the ‘Tripos’) which leads to the award of a Cambridge first degree (the BA). The main disciplines are law and economics, but with options in aspects of the environment, business finance and resource management. There are approximately 40 first year students each year. The degree leads to many career opportunities.
Students are given a solid grounding in economics, including:
- microeconomics;
- macroeconomics;
- urban economics;
- finance and investment analysis;
- environmental economics.
Students also get a solid grounding in law, including:
- Public law (constitutional and administrative);
- Private law (contract, tort and company law);
- Real property law;
- Landlord and tenant;
- Environmental law;
- Land-use planning law;
- Law and economics;
Later courses build on the law and economics foundations, and draw together the two disciplines. Examples include papers on:
- Land and Urban Economics;
- Law and Economics;
- Land–use Planning;
- Land Policy and Development Economics.
The programme is rigorous. Students are introduced to complex theoretical debates, and to their practical implications. It is not a programme of vocational training for surveyors, yet it has the advantage of accreditation by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in recognition of the importance of such rigorous education for leading property professionals.