Architecture degrees compared with official data
267 courses at 79 universities, every page shows entry standards, graduate earnings, satisfaction scores and fees.
Top Architecture courses
Ordered by the arithmetic mean of the official measures published for each course, NSS satisfaction, graduate activity and continuation. Official data only; no commercial league-table input. Two of the three measures are published rounded to the nearest 5 percentage points, so courses are grouped into bands against the whole board instead of scored out of 10, and courses whose measures are identical are listed alphabetically.
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What Architecture graduates earn
What Architecture graduates actually earn, from real outcome data — 15 months, 3 years and 5 years after graduating.
National figures for Architecture graduates — HESA Graduate Outcomes (15 months) and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset (3 & 5 years). These are national, not university-specific; actual pay varies by employer, region, role and experience. Different cohorts, so the bars are not one group over time.
Roles & employers
Where Architecture graduates typically go.
Typical roles
- Architectural assistant
- Architect (after Part 3)
- Urban designer
- Architectural technologist
- BIM coordinator
Where they work
- Architecture practices
- Property developers
- Local-authority planning
- Construction firms
Every university offering Architecture
Course counts link to each university’s full profile.
- Glasgow School of Art. (11)
- Nottingham Trent University (9)
- The University of Westminster (8)
- Liverpool John Moores University (7)
- Coventry University (7)
- University of Strathclyde (7)
- Birmingham City University (6)
- University of Leeds (6)
- University of Lincoln (6)
- Ravensbourne University London (6)
- Cardiff University (6)
- London Metropolitan University (6)
- University of Edinburgh (6)
- UWE Bristol (6)
- University of York (5)
- Loughborough University (5)
- UCL (5)
- University of Bath (5)
- Sheffield Hallam University (4)
- De Montfort University (4)
- The University of Salford (4)
- Newcastle University (4)
- The University of East London (4)
- Ulster University (4)
- Middlesex University (4)
- Oxford Brookes University (4)
- University of Plymouth (4)
- University of Northumbria at Newcastle (4)
- The University of West London (4)
- London South Bank University (4)
- Leeds Beckett University (4)
- The University of Liverpool (4)
- The University of Northampton (3)
- Falmouth University (3)
- Reaseheath College (3)
- University of Brighton (3)
- Lancaster University (3)
- Bath Spa University (3)
- Heriot-Watt University (3)
- Roehampton University (3)
- University of Hertfordshire (3)
- University of Southampton (3)
- University of Reading (3)
- Kingston University (3)
- Cardiff Metropolitan University (3)
- University of Bedfordshire (2)
- Centre for Alternative Technology (2)
- University of Sheffield (2)
- Canterbury Christ Church University (2)
- Robert Gordon University (2)
- University of Gloucestershire (2)
- University of Huddersfield (2)
- The University of Kent (2)
- University of Nottingham (2)
- University of Sussex (2)
- University of the Highlands and Islands (2)
- University of Glasgow (2)
- Norwich University of the Arts (2)
- University for the Creative Arts (2)
- City College Plymouth (2)
- University of Dundee (2)
- The Arts University Bournemouth (2)
- University of Lancashire (2)
- University of Portsmouth (2)
- Buckinghamshire New University (2)
- University of Derby (2)
- AA School of Architecture (1)
- University of Manchester (1)
- Edinburgh Napier University (1)
- University of Staffordshire (1)
- University of Bristol (1)
- Inchbald School of Design (1)
- Courtauld Institute of Art (1)
- University of the Arts London (1)
- Southampton Solent University (1)
- Manchester Metropolitan University (1)
- Wrexham University (1)
- University of Warwick (1)
- City and Guilds of London Art School (1)
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