Strathclyde, University of, BSc (Hons), Architectural Studies

The Department of Architecture is research-led and student-centred. We equip our graduates with the imaginative, critical and industrious abilities needed to improve the quality of the built environment. All our courses have full professional UK recognition by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Our courses are creative and academically rigorous, focusing on practice and social engagement and our academic staff have a breadth of specialisms and work closely with Scotland’s leading architects.

The course focuses on the design of buildings, towns and cities, as well as on the historical and theoretical ideas that inspire them. You will study how buildings are made and how materials and technologies are harnessed to build them. You will be encouraged to seek new ways and rethink old ways of turning ideas into three-dimensional reality.

Lectures, classes and studio design work run throughout the course. There are study trips each year to UK or European destinations. You can graduate with a BSc degree after Year 3 or a BSc Honours degree after Year 4. The first professional training year with an architecture practice is normally taken between Years 3 and 4.

Returning after your year out in practice, Year 4 of the course is the most challenging. You will finalise studio projects and produce a dissertation, which can be the foundation for further work in the postgraduate fifth year.

International Study

Our extensive international connections give you the opportunity to study abroad. Subject to satisfactory performance in Years 1 and 2 you may transfer to the international study stream and spend the second semester of Year 3 at an internationa partner institution. In recent years students have studied at a number of schools of architecture in Europe, Asia, Australasia and the USA. 

Degree preparation course for international students who do not currently meet our entry requirements
University of Strathclyde offers international students (non EU/UK) who do not meet the entry requirements for an undergraduate degree at University of Strathclyde the option of completing pre-undergraduate programmes at the university’s International Study Centre.