Surveying is one of the most diverse and exciting professions in the world.
There's a lot more to surveying as a profession than most people realise. Contrary to popular belief, surveyors don't spend all of their time valuing people’s homes and checking for damp, subsidence and rot. Although some undoubtedly do.
Surveyors are involved in preserving coral reefs around the world, creating computer games, ensuring that music festivals and sports events run smoothly, valuing antiques, creating sustainable environments, farm property management and creating the vision behind major construction projects – such as the new Wembley Stadium, the 2012 Olympic bid and Terminal 5 at Heathrow.
This diversity ensures that no two days are the same for a surveyor, making it one of the most interesting professions around. Many surveyors travel extensively all around the world, meeting people and marking their mark on the earth. Some surveyors even end up multi-millionaires! One thing for certain is that surveying is never boring.
RICS is the pre-eminent organisation of its kind in the world - representing everything that’s good in the world of surveying. We already have a membership of around 120 000 members who play a leading role in shaping our world. We create most of the world's degree and diploma courses for those students interested in becoming professionally qualified surveyors. We are also here to help you be able to tell your students all about surveying and what an interesting, varied and dynamic profession it really is.
At RICS we're totally committed to communicating the scope of the profession to careers advisors and their students. To this end we produce a wide range of brochures and other communication materials to help demonstrate how chartered surveyors are often the driving force in a diverse range of important and exciting developments around the world.
These support materials are designed for use by students aged between 15-18 years of age. We can also arrange presentations by RICS members at your school or college and have a number of work placement and work experience schemes in place in the UK and in other parts of the world.
