The University of Sheffield
Prospective Postgraduates

MArch Architecture

School of Architecture, Faculty of Social Sciences

This is one of the UK's top three architecture schools. Our postgraduate courses give you both the freedom to express yourself and the skills you need for your career.

About the course

2 years full-time/3 years part-time

You'll achieve professional accreditation as an architect. The degree is currently validated by the RIBA at Part 2 and prescribed by ARB. Your study will be mainly studio-based, with design projects each year.

To qualify as an architect, you'll produce at least one comprehensive design project and usually a dissertation. Our unique live project will give you the opportunity to work with local and regional groups on real-life challenges. You could be building, consulting or designing urban masterplans.

Entry requirements

You'll need BA Architecture, 2:1 or equivalent, from a RIBA/ARB approved institution, along with one year in practice. You should have RIBA Part 1 or equivalent.

English language requirements

Overall IELTS grade of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each component, or equivalent.

Entry requirements for international students

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Core modules

  • Design 1 and 2
  • Special Design 1
  • Theory and Research
  • Environment and Technology 1
  • Management and Practice 1
  • Dissertation 1

Optional modules

  • Reflections on Practice
  • Reflections on Architectural Education
  • Studying Urban Context
  • Computer-Aided Architectural Design
  • Computational Design
  • Climate-Sensitive Environmental Design
  • Building Environmental Simulation and Analysis
  • Renewable Energy
  • Interactive Urban Visualisation Modelling

Teaching

Our design teaching is studio-based with several research-led options. Programmes run by specialist staff link together:

  • Lectures
  • Studio work
  • Research

Assessment

Each module is assessed individually, either by:

  • Formal written examination or
  • Coursework

Fees and funding

Financial information for postgraduate taught courses

Any questions?

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

E: pg-enquiries@sheffield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)114 222 0310/0309

Griselda Arteaga Trejo MA Architectural Design


Advance your career

You could become a professional architect in an international leading-edge practice. From environmental design to public sector advisory groups, our past graduates are working as 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.

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 have backgrounds in many areas, including the arts, physical and social sciences and engineering.

This connects our research to other disciplines and creates a stimulating environment, leading to a vigorous and critical debate about the future of architecture.

Achieve professional accreditation from RIBA or the RTPI with our taught professional courses.

Explore your ideas

You'll find all the tools you'll need. We have design studios, traditional lecture and seminar areas, research rooms, specialised 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.

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