Overview

Earn a salary and get the qualifications needed to become a professional architect

On this integrated three-year Master's and one-year Part 3 qualification, you'll build on your undergraduate degree and RIBA Part 1 exemption and become an ARB-registered architect at the end.

You'll gain valuable on-the-job experience during this four-year degree apprenticeship, which will help you develop the professional and creative skills needed to succeed in architecture. You’ll cover topics such as urbanism, landscape, sustainability and culture in a studio environment.

During term time, you'll spend one day a week on day release at the University and the other four days applying your skills and getting practical experience in your workplace. The government or your employer pay your tuition fees – so your architecture degree apprenticeship doesn’t cost you anything.

Course highlights

• Develop the creative and professional abilities needed to become a registered architect with the ARB
• Get a MArch degree while you earn a salary
• Learn how to come up with creative and strategic solutions to a variety of architectural challenges
• Benefit from top-class facilities in this studio-based course, including our Centre for Creative and Immersive Extended Reality (CCIXR) – the UK’s first integrated facility for virtual, augmented, and extended realities
• Put what you learn into practice in the workplace, preparing yourself for Part 3 studies in your final year
• Gain further professional knowledge from our network of visiting lecturers—past ones include Pamela Cole, Alastair Lewis, and architects from Tibbalds
• Get practical work experience, giving you an advantage in leaving the course as you'll have four years' experience plus your qualifications

Careers and opportunities

This architecture degree apprenticeship prepares you to become an ARB-registered architect. This will expand your professional knowledge, skills, and reputation at work.

Besides being able to legally call yourself an architect, having an ARB registration ensures you:

• Are a qualified, fully trained professional, which highlights your integrity amongst clients and members of public
• Maintain your professional obligations by following the 'Architects Code: Standards of Conduct and Practice'
• Can work in virtually any practice or organisation, as some contracts or employers require you to be registered before you work with them
• Continuously update your professional skills, knowledge and abilities through Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• Can work internationally, subject to individual country requirements