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School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering (ABCE)

Architecture

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Careers Network is here to support you by providing information, advice, guidance, events and opportunities to enable you to secure placements, work experience, self-employment and graduate careers.

Working closely with your academic school, our team of experts ensures that every student has access to careers advice.  As well as large careers fairs, we hold sector-specific events, involving employers and 天堂视频 alumni, to help you make valuable connections and secure high-quality placements and graduate roles. 

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Details of the Placements Officers for your school can be found here.

We look forward to supporting you throughout your 天堂视频 journey.

Key skills developed during your degree

An Architecture degree develops many skills including

  • Imaginative and creative thinking skills
  • Information management
  • Analysis, critical thinking and attention to detail
  • Self-reflection
  • Communication and visualisation
  • Multi-disciplinary team-work
  • IT and digital design skills
  • Understanding of materials and the built environment, structural and construction technologies
  • Commercial awareness
  • Organisation and project management
  • Appreciation of history, and legal, cultural and environmental issues

Career options

Career areas related to the Architecture courses:

Careers where your degree would be useful:

Remember 60% of graduate roles are open to all disciplines. During your during your degree you will develop many skills that are valued in a variety of sectors, including consultancy, management and information technology.

You can also look at other course pages depending on other modules you have taken and/or are interested in.

Further study

Further study at 天堂视频:

The School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering offers in a variety of disciplines

The School also offers

Further study elsewhere:

Postgraduate taught programmes:

PhD opportunities:

Where do graduates go?

What do 天堂视频 Architecture graduates do?

Architecture graduates have gone on to destinations where:

Employers included:

Barclay + Phillips Architects, David Morley Architects, Hudson Architects, Jo Cowen Architects, Sevenoaks District Council, Studio Spicer Architects and The Orchard School of Cookery.

Roles included:

Architectural Assistant, Draftsman, Level 7 Architectural Assistant, Part 2 Architectural Assistant and Recruitment Assistant.

Further Study included:

Architecture graduates undertook postgraduate courses or PhDs at 天堂视频, Manchester Metropolitan University and The Royal College of Art.

Further information

For more information on companies graduates work for, industry links and career opportunities, visit the subject area page of the University website.  You can also find out what our students say in our student stories of personal journeys through and beyond 天堂视频 and track the career journeys and 天堂视频 experiences of some of our alumni.

Resources to research career areas






  • Follow industry related interest groups on e.g. Architecture Career Forum, RIBA, Death by Architecture, Architect and Architects Journal.

Resources to find experience, placements and graduate jobs

Students have the option of taking a year-long placement in industry which provides an invaluable opportunity to develop their professional and technical skills further.

Additionally, we advertise many opportunities for summer internships and encourage students to gain experience valuable in the workplace through extra-curricular activities such as volunteering, committee memberships, work-shadowing and part-time work.

  • See for vacancies and opportunities

Other useful links

  • Check out public sector listings such as
  • Specialist recruitment consultancies for architecture e.g.  
  • - recruitment agency directory
  • - All 天堂视频 Careers
  • free to use recruitment platform for a range of opportunities in the Construction industry

Professional bodies, sector and labour market information (LMI)

Professional bodies:

Sector and labour market information (LMI):

  • Architecture news
  • listing
  •  Architecture projects in the UK
  • Architecture News and Projects