Hi Coree!
Lovely to hear that you will be joining us in September.
Taking your last question first, we have Visit Days arranged for the following dates:
* Weds 8th Feb 2017
* Fri 17th Feb 2017
* Weds 8th Mar 2017.
You will be invited in to one of these in the near future.
The Visit will be hosted at the Henley Business School building at the Whiteknights Campus. All the teaching and related course activities take place at Whiteknights, although we do offer study abroad opportunities, which could take place in Malaysia, USA, Australia, Japan or in European universities.
The third year specialisms/options are decided at the end of the second year and we provide briefing materials and sessions, along with student perspectives on those choices.
You are correct about the current job situation. Many real estate companies are feeling very uncertain about the future and are being cautious about recruitment. This may ease as we move forward through the year: life will probably continue and firms will need to staff their teams to cover the workloads. Of course, if you join the programme in September, you won't be seeking employment until 2020 or 2021, depending on your course choice....so things will hopefully have 'settled' somewhat by then.
The (very!) good news for you is that we have a very sophisticated infrastructure to support our students on careers, industry networking and work experience. We run a full programme of company talks, visits, mentoring, internships, mock assessment days and 1-to-1 career counselling. That support is reflected in our employability rates which are regularly in the 95-98% zone.
We look forward to seeing you at one of the visit days. This will give you the chance to learn a bit more about the course and other aspects like the careers support and the work of the Reading Real Estate Foundation. Offer holders go for lunch with our current students whilst guests have lunch with staff. We do a walking tour of the campus and finish-up with a Q&A session with some third year students who have experienced the whole programme. The overall objective is to give you and any guests you want to bring along a clear idea of the course and our wider offer and (from our point of view) to secure firm acceptances to our offers.
Have a good Christmas and see you soon!
Joe
PS Shame about your choice of football team: I'm a Spurs fan!