The Association of Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS) annually awards the association's Gold Medal to the best student (in Quantity Surveying) in all the tertiary institutions of South Africa. The department is proud to have claimed this award for the University of the Free State seventeen times. Nine of the UFS recipients were ladies.
- 1970 N McM Duncan
- 1974 JT Syffert
- 1974 C du Toit-Heunis
- 1984 L Ferreira
- 1989 MD Botha*
- 1991 A Mouton*
- 1992 H Wolfaard*
- 1995 NM Ellis*
- 1996 LW Yuill
- 1997 H Verster*
- 1999 ME Niewoudt*
- 2003 JJ Jacobs
- 2005 HT Jordaan*
- 2006 Pulane Mahloka*
- 2008 Herman Berry
- 2009 Franre Swanepoel
- 2010 Farzana Samuel*
- 2012 Elana Malherbe*
*Ladies