Architecture BSc (Hons)

Take your first step towards becoming an architect with our BSc Architecture course. Both leading academics and innovative, practising architects will teach you.<br/><br/>You will benefit from seven-day-a-week access to dedicated studio spaces in a newly refurbished building and the use of facilities equipped with digital technologies. <br/><br/>The course comprises half design studios and design briefs and half lecture-based taught courses. Design projects aim to enable you to prepare a digital and physical portfolio. In contrast, lectures are designed to develop your understanding of core academic subjects and practical skills as part of your taught curriculum. Meanwhile, optional field trips to responsibly accessible cities such as London, Amsterdam, Venice or Paris will allow you to look at architecture in a new light. <br/><br/>We have particular expertise in a range of subjects related to our research area of urban living, including urban regeneration, housing, mapping cities and places, and digital and analogue representation of buildings and cities.<br/><br/>We are part of the renowned School of the Built Environment, which has strong research and industry links and is the joint fifth highest-ranking UK university for Architecture and Built Environment (QS World Rankings by Subject 2023) and sixth in the UK for research power in Architecture, Built Environment and Planning (Times Higher Education, Institutions Ranked by Subject, based on its analysis of the latest REF 2021). <br/><br/>**Scholarships**<br/>As part of the cohort joining the BSc Architecture course in 2025, you will have the opportunity to secure an annual £1,000 scholarship for each of the three years of the undergraduate degree (subject to conditions).<br/><br/>**Connect with industry**<br/>The University of Reading has well-established links with industry within the built environment sector. During the programme, there will be opportunities to work alongside businesses from across the sector, which will provide you with valuable experience that you can demonstrate to employers on graduation.<br/><br/>For more information, please visit the programme page: https://www.reading.ac.uk/ready-to-study/study/subject-area/architecture-ug/bsc-architecture

There are so many reasons to choose the University of Reading in Clearing this year. Join a diverse and supportive community where lecturers will inspire you with their discoveries and guide you in making your own. Reading’s award-winning parkland campus offers the spaces and places you need to make the most of your studies and student life.<br/><br/>The University of Reading is a research-intensive university. It works with governments, international agencies, businesses, and charities to tackle some of the biggest problems facing the world today, such as climate change, heart disease, and international conflict.<br/><br/>Named The Sustainable University of The Year, 2025, this year Reading launched one of the UK's largest ever undergraduate scholarship schemes, designed to develop future Global Sustainability Leaders Scholarships. The scholarship offers £6000 per year (for up to 4 years of study) towards living expenses and will be available to apply to, for those entering Clearing and who meet the scheme's criteria. With over 150 clubs and societies, Reading knows how important life is beyond your studies too and with the student union in the heart of the campus, there's little doubt making the University of Reading your first call in Clearing will be one of the best decisions you ever made.