Architecture BA (Hons)
Arts University Bournemouth
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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SEP-25

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3 Years

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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Arts University Bournemouth

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The BA (Hons) Architecture degree will help you to prepare for professional practice (part 1 ARB/RIBA) and investigate the ways we live in the world through material and spatial relationships. Youll develop skills that will form the foundation of your career in architecture: making, collaborating, designing and communicating. Integrating practice with theory is at the heart of professional architectural practice, so thats exactly what youll do here.Youll explore, experiment and develop new ...Read more

The BA (Hons) Architecture degree will help you to prepare for professional practice (part 1 ARB/RIBA) and investigate the ways we live in the world through material and spatial relationships. You'll develop skills that will form the foundation of your career in architecture: making, collaborating, designing and communicating. Integrating practice with theory is at the heart of professional architectural practice, so thats exactly what youll do here.

Youll explore, experiment and develop new solutions. Discussing and presenting your work you'll share ideas about architecture through making tangible propositions, mindful of how they might be realised.

This ‘research-by-making approach encourages risk-taking, innovation and entrepreneurship. Both inside and outside the studio, as well as in regular seminars, lectures and reviews, youll work on projects that require a creative balance of rigour and risk, informed by your design, technical and contextual knowledge.

At every stage in your degree, youll have opportunities to build on your own practice through collaborations with other courses. Youll develop an understanding of the practice and theory of architecture, grounded in making, along with critical thinking and a familiarity with the material nature of architectural ideas. Youll explore the practice of making thoughtful, tangible, inhabited places that mediate between the individual, the world we live in, and the others we live with.

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WUSCA ranking:
WUSCA student ranking
These are the 2024 rankings, based on ratings given by past and current students.
57/101
CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
36th
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
93rd
Architecture
Drop-out rate
Drop-out rate
The percentage of students who didn't finish the course.
Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 80 = 20% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
20%
Employment rate
Employment rate
The percentage of students in full-time work 6 months after finishing their course.
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
95%
Average salary
Average salary
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Architecture graduate salary at this uni
£18,000
UK Architecture graduate salary
£20,000
What students say
H
Harry
10 Dec 24

Great Facilities, and amazing staff. Small, yet great campus, bit confusing to get around..Read more

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Andrada
10 Dec 24

You get a lot of support from your teachers, especially when you’re a first year student is great. Also the coursework is really helpful to get used to the “university education”..Read more

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Entry requirements

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A level

A level:

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Scottish Higher:

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UCAS Tariff:

128 Grades / Points required

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

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Scottish Highers – five passes at Grade C or above

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Tuition fees

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England

£9,250 per year

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Scotland

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Wales

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Northern Ireland

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Channel Islands

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£17,950 per year

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Students from EU

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This is the fee you pay if you live within the European Union. Please note, this fee has been confirmed.

£17,950 per year

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Students from International

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£17950 Per year

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Great Facilities, and amazing staff. Small, yet great campus, bit confusing to get around...
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You get a lot of support from your teachers, especially when you’re a first year student is great. Also the coursework is really helpful to get used to the “university education”...
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