Geospatial Sciences (Building Information Modelling and Surveying) MSc

Advance your career in geospatial sciences with a focus on Building Information Modelling (BIM) and surveying, with this one-year MSc at UCL. You’ll gain a broad understanding of surveying principles, 3D reality capture, and technologies. If you’re looking for a specialist Master’s in geospatial sciences with a focus on building information modelling and surveying, there is no better place to study than UCL. Bringing together the relevant theory with extensive project-based experience, the course covers the geometric and semantic aspects of BIM, digital twins and the integrated management of geospatial and BIM-related data – from terrestrial, marine, space-based, drone and other airborne techniques for spatial data acquisition to the principles of surveying, mapping technologies, 3D reality capture, 3D geometric modelling, and geoinformation science. In addition to excellent teaching and insights into current research and theory, you’ll gain practical skills and learn specialist software tools like ArcGIS Pro, Cyclone, PhotoScan, QGIS, FME, Revit, and PostGIS. You’ll also learn soft transferrable skills like communication, project management and critical thinking – which, when coupled with your technical expertise, will make you highly sought after for jobs in engineering consultancies, infrastructure projects, geospatial software companies, national mapping agencies, and more. This programme is most likely to appeal to students who have an academic background in a subject such as engineering, architecture, environmental studies, geography, mathematics, earth sciences, physical or computational sciences and wish to expand their knowledge of theory, tools and techniques for working with geospatial data, from acquisition to processing to analysis.

A minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline (such as engineering, architecture, geography, urban planning, mathematics, surveying, marine and earth sciences, computer science) from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Normally only candidates with either a first or upper second-class degree will be accepted, although applicants with a lower second-class degree supported by extensive work experience will also be considered.