MSc Real Estate

There are some that will have a focus more on modelling and complex financial models but they'll tend to have investment/finance in their titles - they're then probably aiming at the finance APC pathway which is quite a narrow speciality.

The general real estate masters will probably be geared towards the commercial practice and valuation APC pathways which are rather broader in scope.

As regards software some courses will have varying levels of use of industry standard software, but it is important to understand the underlying maths so you've got some hope to know whether what pops out the end of the software is sensible or not.

I can give you a breakdown of what it looks like at Birmingham City University (I'm real estate course leader)
We have six taught modules: Valuation, Commercial Inspection and Surveying, Law and Practice, Property Management, Development Project, Professional Practice, and a dissertation.

Out of those the valuation, property management and development project modules do include some maths - nothing beyond GCSE level and we'd tend to push towards using Excel for anything a bit more complex - commercial software such as Argus essentially acts as a front to a hidden spreadsheet underneath.

On top of that we make extensive use of CoStar and to a lesser extent Estates Gazette to drive what we're doing, as as far as possible we try and make assessments similar to real world work.

Hope that's of some use.