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Professional Masters
Aldgate Campus
Part Time
SEP-25
4 Years
This postgraduate course combines an apprenticeship with study over a four-year period. Funded by their employer, participants complete RIBA parts 2 and 3 whilst working as architectural apprentices.
You may be interested if you are:
an individual hoping to study RIBA parts 2 and 3 part-time whilst working as an apprentice in an architectural firm (having already secured your apprenticeship position)
an architecture practice that already has an apprentice who they would like to fund in completing this course alongside their apprenticeship
As an apprentice you will join London Mets revered School of Art, Architecture and Design. The design and technology teaching for this postgraduate architecture course is carried out by a combination of practitioners and academics, ensuring the programme maintains relevance. With its campus located in a thriving cultural area of London, the School also boasts strong links to architectural and construction industries.
This course is designed to enable architecture practices to retain talented apprentices, so they may continue to work four days a week in the office whilst studying our whilst studying our Architecture (RIBA 2) - MArch and Examination in Professional Practice (RIBA 3) - PG Cert courses on a part-time basis. Over their four-year postgraduate journey to fully-qualified status as an architect, the apprentice will progress through a combination of work-based training and university study.
The apprentice will be required to have:
a good degree in architecture
Passed ARB / RIBA accredited Part 1
GCSE Maths and English at grade C, or equvialent Level 2 qualification (you'll be asked evidence your grade with a certificate). From February 2025, these requirements will be optional if you're aged 19 and over at the start of your apprenticeship training.
the ability to demonstrate talent as a designer and the motivation to complete the course successfully
already be employed as an apprentice at an architectural practice
agreed the terms of this apprenticeship with their employer prior to applying
two references (one from your employer and an academic one)
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Fees covered by the Government Apprenticeship Levy (subject to availability)
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