Program Overview
The Architecture degree at UWA prepares students to design and conceptualize buildings, urban areas, and landscapes. With a low student-to-staff ratio in design studios, students receive intensive teaching supported by practical studies, design communication, sustainability, and historical and ethical aspects. To become a registered architect, graduates require a bachelor's degree, a two-year master's degree, and two years of professional practice before passing the Architectural Practice Examination.
Program Outline
You'll also graduate with the skills to build 6-star+ rated housing, a growing need in today's environmentally minded society. Practical studies are supported by investigating design communication, sustainable design and historical, theoretical and ethical aspects. Students can also exhibit their work at the Cullity Gallery.
Careers:
To become an architect you need to study a three-year bachelor's degree followed by a two-year master's degree.
Other:
Following completion of the Master of Architecture, graduates must undertake two years of professional practice under the direction of a registered architect and then pass the Architectural Practice Examination (APE) before being eligible to register as an architect in Australia.
Entry Requirements:
- Assured Pathways for high school leavers:
- Minimum ATAR: 92.001
- TISC Codes: UWARE (with Bachelor of Environmental Design), UWARP (with Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours))
- Qualifications: BEnvDes + MArch, BPhil(Hons) + MArch
- Duration: Three-year Bachelor of Environmental Design degree plus a two-year master's degree.
- Limited places: No
- Selection criteria: ATAR only
- Undergraduate major: Architecture (extended major)
- Conditions for progress to postgraduate study: Completion of a UWA bachelor’s degree with a WAM of 60 per cent and extended major in Architecture.
- Note: This pathway is also available through the Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours). Students taking this pathway require an ATAR of 98.00. Bachelor of Philosophy students will take an additional year to complete this pathway.
- Standard entry:
- Minimum ATAR: 75.00
- Required: Completion of a bachelor's degree with an extended major in Architecture.
- Entry for holders of other degrees:
- If you have completed an undergraduate degree without the required architecture studies, you may still gain entry to a Master of Architecture.
- You'll take conversion units that will make the course duration up to 3.5 years.
