Quantity Surveying in Sri Lanka: Careers, Curriculum & Future Outlook

📘 Overview

Quantity Surveying is the profession that manages the money side of construction — estimating costs, preparing contracts, controlling budgets and ensuring projects deliver value. Offered as a BSc Honours by the University of Moratuwa's Faculty of Architecture, it is one of the most globally employable degrees Sri Lanka produces. It suits numerate, detail-focused and commercially minded students who want a professional, well-paid career in the construction and infrastructure industry.

It earns a future-proof score of 8.3 because quantity surveyors are in strong demand at home and especially overseas — notably in the Gulf — the qualification carries professional recognition, and the cost, contract and negotiation skills involved are highly resistant to automation.

📚 What You'll Study

The programme combines construction knowledge with cost, contract and commercial management.

• Quantity surveying principles and measurement
• Construction technology and materials
• Cost estimation and budgeting
• Construction contracts and law
• Procurement and tendering
• Construction economics and finance
• Project and commercial management
• Industrial training and a research project

⏳ Duration

This is a four-year BSc Honours degree in Quantity Surveying.

✅ Entry Requirements

This is a mathematics-oriented degree with O/L requirements. To be eligible you must obtain at least a Simple (S) pass in at least one of Combined Mathematics or Higher Mathematics, together with your other subject(s) from Accounting, Economics, Business Statistics, Business Studies, Physics, Chemistry or Information & Communication Technology at the G.C.E. (Advanced Level) Examination.

• Combined Mathematics — minimum grade S
• Higher Mathematics — minimum grade S

At O/L you also need a Credit (C) in Mathematics, an Ordinary (S) pass in Science and a Credit (C) in English Language. Final selection also depends on your Z-score, which varies by university and district every year — check your eligibility with the free tool on findmydegree.lk.

🏛️ Where It's Offered

• University of Moratuwa — 152 seats

ℹ️ Entry requirements, seats and universities are sourced from official UGC data (2024/2025 A/L). Career and curriculum details are general guidance — confirm specifics with each university.