Students also elect representatives to sit on the Board of Land Economy and participate in running the Land Economy Society. The Department was at the forefront in Cambridge in introducing student assessment of teaching quality through detailed questionnaires. The employment prospects of graduates in Land Economy are particularly bright. There is a wide range of potential careers and the course is designed so that you will have a good idea by your third year of the kind of employment that suits you. Some graduates go into banking and other financial institutions, and others use their skills in business administration, general management and management consultancy.
Some graduates enter the surveying profession in either the private or public sector.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors provides full exemptions from all written examinations to graduates who have passed certain specified Papers in the Land Economy Tripos. The exemptions extend to the Institution's three principal divisions, namely general practice, rural practice, and planning and development. This saves you two years of study for the professional qualification. An introduction to economic concepts and theory and to the economic environment in which the private sector, governments, and public organizations operate. A study of institutional and administrative law, including the European Union, Parliament, the Executive, next step agencies, quangoes and other government agencies, local government and judicial review.