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Architecture at Liverpool John Moores University - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Course summary

This MArch from LJMU invites you to creatively engage in a truly interdisciplinary and project-orientated architectural study.

  • Embark on this research-informed, nationally respected programme that has been fully validated and externally accredited for over 40 years
  • Take part in overseas workshops enabling you to undertake design work in new territories and contexts such as Porto, Marseille, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Essen and Duisburg
  • Develop skills in communication, presentation and self-motivation
  • Benefit from state-of-the-art workspaces and facilities within the RIBA award-winning John Lennon Art and Design Building
  • Degree Show 2022
  • Guided Tour Video
This programme of study is thoughtfully balanced to address the creative and technical demands of the architectural profession. In the 2017 RIBA revalidation, the MArch programme was commended by the visiting assessors for "...the Architecture programme's focus on urban design projects across a range of scales, evident in the work of the MArch students." Taught principally through a studio environment that is underpinned and informed by lectures and workshops, the over-arching ambition of the programme is to create graduates with artistic flair, who are technically skilled and grounded in the demands of the professional role of an architect. The learning and teaching environment is progressively informed by research in pedagogy in the creative field. While teaching the curriculum, the programme also develops less tangible skills in students, such as communication, presentation and self-motivation. A key ambition is to create independent thinkers, adept at resolving problems with creativity and originality. Visit this year's degree show website and browse MArch student work

Assessment method

To cater for the wide-ranging content of our courses and the varied learning preferences of our students, we offer a range of assessment methods on each programme. This is a project-oriented course. You will develop design ideas in the studio, guided by semester tutors and, at regular intervals, by joint review panels of design tutors and external critics who will comment on your progress. Teaching is intensive and you will learn via one-to-one and group discussions plus regular presentations of work, so that continuous group and self-assessment is built into your course. The environmental, structural and constructional aspects of your design projects will be assessed in technical workshops. You will also need to submit: written, drawn and modelled coursework submissions, a written and illustrated dissertation, written and illustrated essays and reports plus reflective statements.

Entry requirements

Undergraduate degree: -a minimum 2:2 honours degree in Architecture Additional requirements: -Interview required: to attend an interview International requirements: -IELTS: IELTS 6.5 (minimum 5.5 in each component) Extra Requirements: -Assessment of suitability to the course may also be undertaken by review of a portfolio of work and an interview -Students with first degrees without RIBA/ARB Part 1 exemption should be aware that the MArch awards exemption from RIBA / ARB Part 2 only. If you wish to register as an Architect in this country or become an RIBA Chartered architect you will have to acquire RIBA / ARB Part 1 separately -RPL: RPL is accepted on this programme

English language requirements

-IELTS 6.5 (minimum 5.5 in each component)

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9250 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9250 Year 1
Scotland £9250 Year 1
Wales £9250 Year 1
International £18250 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

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Architecture at Liverpool John Moores University - UCAS