Q: What universities in the UK offer architecture?
Part 1 courses accredited by RIBA as of 2010:
University of Bath
Course Requirements: A*AA
Course Length: 4 year sandwich, professional placement in Semester 2 of second and third years
Birmingham City University
Course Requirements: 320 points (ABB)
Course Length: 3 year
University of Brighton
Course Requirements: ABB
Course Length: 3 year
University of Cambridge
Course Requirements: A*AA [Individual colleges have specialist requirements]
Course Length: 3 year
University of Cardiff
Course Requirements: AAA
Course Length: 6 year with year 4 as professional experience
Course is also Part 2 accredited.
University for the Creative Arts
Course Requirements: 260 points (BCC)
Course Length: 3 year
University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins
Course Requirements: 80 points (EE)
Course Length: 3 year
De Montfort University
Course Requirements: 280 points (BBC)
Course Length: 3 year
University of Dundee
Course Requirements: BBB
Course Length: 5 or 6 year sandwich, with either summer year 3 or the traditional year 4 as professional experience
Course is also Part 2 accredited.
University of East London
Course Requirements: 200 points (CDD)
Course Length: 3 year
The Glasgow School of Art
Course Requirements: ABB
Course Length: 5 year, with year 4 as professional experience
Part 2 post-grad reduced to 1 year if continued at this Uni.
University of Greenwich
Course Requirements: 240 points (CCC)
Course Length: 3 year
The University of Huddersfield
Course Requirements: 300 points (BBB)
Course Length: 3 year
University of Kent
Course Requirements: 320 points (ABB)
Course Length: 3 year
Kingston University
Course Requirements: 320 points (ABB)
Course Length: 3 year
Leeds Metropolitan University
Course Requirements: 300 points (BBB)
Course Length: 3 year
University of Lincoln
Course Requirements: 320 points (ABB)
Course Length: 3 year
University of Liverpool
Course Requirements: AAA
Course Length: 3 year
Liverpool John Moores University
Course Requirements: 300 points (BBB)
Course Length: 3 year
London Metropolitan University
Course Requirements: 280 points (BBC)
Course Length: 3 year
London South Bank University
Course Requirements: 160 points (CC)
Course Length: 3 year
The Manchester School of Architecture (University of Manchester and
Manchester Metropolitan University)
Course Requirements: AAA
Course Length: 3 year
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Course Requirements: AAA
Course Length: 3 year
Northumbria University
Course Requirements: BBB
Course Length: 3 year
University of Nottingham [Architecture/Architecture and Environmental Design]
Course Requirements: AAA
Course Length: 6 year, with year 4 as professional experience. [Architecture and Environmental Design is 7 year with year 5 as professional experience]
Course is also Part 2 accredited [Architecture and Environmental Design also accredited by CIBSE].
Nottingham Trent University
Course Requirements: 300 points (BBB)
Course Length: 3 year
Oxford Brookes University
Course Requirements: ABB
Course Length: 3 year
University of Plymouth
Course Requirements: 320 points (ABB)
Course Length: 3 year
University of Portsmouth
Course Requirements: 260 points (BCC)
Course Length: 3 year
Queen's University Belfast
Course Requirements: ABB
Course Length: 3 year
The Robert Gordon University
Course Requirements: BCC
Course Length: 6 year, with year 4 as professional experience
Course is also Part 2 accredited.
The University of Sheffield [Architecture/Architecture and Landscape/Structural Engineering and Architecture]
Course Requirements: AAA
Course Length: 3 year [Structural Engineering and Architecture is 4 year]
[Architecture and Landscape also accredited by the Landscape Institute, Structural Engineering and Architecture also accredited by the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Institution of Civil Engineers].
Sheffield Hallam University [Architecture and Environmental Design]
Course Requirements: 300 points (BBB)
Course Length: 3 year
University of Strathclyde
Course Requirements: ABB
Course Length: 5 year, 4th year as professional experience
Part 2 post-grad reduced to 1 year if continued at this Uni.
University of Ulster
Course Requirements: 300 points (BBB)
Course Length: 3 year
University College London
Course Requirements: ABBe
Course Length: 3 year
University of the West of England [Architecture and Planning]
Course Requirements: 320 points (ABB)
Course Length: 4 year
University of Westminster
Course Requirements: ABB
Course Length: 3 year
Architectural Association [A private School of Architecture, apply outside of the UCAS system.]
Course Requirements: CC
Course Length: 6 year
Course is also Part 2 accredited.
Part 1 courses with Candidate Status for accreditation from RIBA as of 2010 (no guarantee can be given about the courses obtaining accreditation by the time you graduate, although in the case of ESALA it is almost certain as it is only candidate status due to a recent merge):
The Arts University College at Bournemouth
Course Requirements: BBC
Course Length: 3 year
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh)
Course Requirements: AAA
Course Length: 4 years, 3 years optional
University of the West of England [Architecture and Environmental Engineering]
Course Requirements: 300 points (BBB)
Course Length: 4 year
Architecture departments have highly specific subject preferences, and often request portfolios to be submitted when they are processing your application, all schools also consider alternative qualifications, see the individual University websites for this information.
Correct only as of summer 2010!