Architect Apprenticeship (RIBA 2 and 3) - MArch
London Metropolitan University
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MArch - Master of Architecture

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Why study this course?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 ...Read more

Why study this course?

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 Met’s 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 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.

95% funding is available for smaller practices as well as 100% funding for larger levy-paying practices. You can find out more about employing an apprentice and getting funding here.

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73/101
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127th
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The apprentice will be required to have: a good degree in architecture passed RIBA / ARB Part 1; GCSE Maths and English at grade C/4, or equivalent Level 2 qualification (you'll be asked to evidence your grade with a certificate) with 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 and agreed the terms of this apprenticeship with their employer prior to applying.

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London Metropolitan University
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Calcutta House Old Castle Street London Tower Hamlets E1 7NT United Kingdom
Nearest tube station: Aldgate East  0.1 miles away Nearest train station: Fenchurch Street   0.2 miles away
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