The University of Sheffield
Prospective Postgraduates

MA Architectural Design

Key factsPostgraduate student from the School of Architecture

  • School of Architecture, Faculty of Social Sciences
  • 1 year full-time

Fees and funding

Financial information for postgraduate taught courses

Entry requirements

You'll need a 2:1 honours degree or an equivalent qualification related to design in the built environment, such as architecture, landscape architecture or town planning. Your degree doesn't have to be design-based. If you have a lot of professional design experience we'll consider your application.

English language requirements: overall IELTS grade of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each component, or equivalent.

Entry requirements for international students

Any questions?

If you'd like to know more about any aspect of our courses, contact us:

E: ssoa@sheffield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)114 222 0306/0309

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About the course

This studio-based course will help you develop your own distinctive design practice. You’ll explore design processes and methodologies. There are opportunities to work on real-life projects with local and regional groups.

You can take the course as a stand-alone MA or as preparation for a PhD via our PhD by Design programme.

Core modules

  • Special Design Project – Live Project
  • Design 1 and 2
  • Theory and Research
  • Environment and Technology 1
  • Reflections on Architectural Design
  • Thesis Design Project

Optional modules

  • Reflections on Architectural Education
  • Reflections on Practice
  • Computer-Aided Architectural Design
  • Computational Design
  • Climate-Sensitive Environmental Design

Teaching

  • Studio-based design work with individual and group tutorials
  • Block seminars and workshops
  • Traditional lecture modules
  • Live projects involving real clients and real community projects

Assessment

  • Course assignments
  • Examinations
  • Design thesis
  • A dissertation

Advance your career

Our graduates are architects, project managers, urban designers and client advisors.

Employers include the Olympic Park Legacy Company, Hawkins Brown, Renzo Piano Building Workshop and URBED (Urbanism, Environment & Design) Ltd.

With a post-qualification degree, you could move on to a senior position or further academic research and teaching.

Learn from experts

You’ll be joining one of the largest and most diverse groups of full-time architecture academics in the country. Our staff come from the arts, physical and social sciences, and engineering. This connects our research to other disciplines and stimulates debate about the future of architecture.

Our international research projects shape policy and address public and professional needs. They are integrated with our teaching on courses that will develop your core skills. You’ll be encouraged to provide social and environmental solutions to the challenges of our time.

Explore your ideas

We have design studios, traditional lecture and seminar areas, research rooms, specialist laboratories and computing facilities. There are also specialist architecture resources in the University library.

You'll be able to access our own technical workshop, photographic and audio-visual unit, a range of specialist lighting, acoustic and thermal environmental assessment and experimental facilities, and a postgraduate common room.

Our teaching is more than lectures and seminars. Our student-led design projects help you learn by doing.

You'll work with real clients on real projects, and discover the benefits of socially engaged design and collaborative working where the outcomes make a difference to communities.

Apply now

You can apply for postgraduate study using our Postgraduate Online Application Form. It is a quick and easy process.

Postgraduate Online Application Form