OpenMaster degree (coursework)Architecture and Building

Master of Architecture

ProviderUNSW Sydney
Course code: SIA-10247UniversityStudy area: Architecture and BuildingCourse data availableData JSON

Course overview

UNSW Architecture offers a distinctive architectural education with four areas of specialisation: high-performance technology, housing, urban conditions, and social agency. The program provides you with advanced knowledge and techniques in architectural design and related technical and academic knowledge. It prepares you to work in architecture and other design-based industries and to operate at a professional level in the practice of Architecture.

Entry requirements

Postgraduate and higher courses usually use academic prerequisites, degree equivalence and English-language requirements.

Postgraduate entry

1. 65 credit average (or equivalent) in an accredited undergraduate architecture degree OR 2.

A UNSW 70 high credit WAM across the following courses: ARCH1311 Architectural Design Studio 5 ARCH1361 Architectural Science and Building Environment 2 ARCH1331 Architectural Fabrication ARCH1302 Architectural Design Studio 6 ARCH1322 Architectural History and Theory 3 If you have completed your undergraduate architecture degree at another institution, you will be assessed by the final year compulsory courses in that undergraduate architecture degree OR 3.

If you have completed the Bachelor of Architectural Studies (or equivalent) but do not meet the entry requirements specified under either of the two above, you may be considered after you have obtained work experience in an architectural office.

Work experience will be individually assessed based on the following submission: A logbook record of a minimum 12 months full-time work or the equivalent.

A referee report from the employer A portfolio of the work undertaken during this period 4.

It is assumed that you will also have had six months work experience in architectural practice.

English requirement
Cambridge C1 Advanced 169, no component below 162Cambridge C2 Proficiency 169, no component below 162IELTS Academic 6, no band below 5.5PTE Academic 50, no component below 42TOEFL iBT 60, no component below 15

If your current English result is below direct entry, consider the university-recognised English language pathway or ELICOS package; successful completion at the required level can usually satisfy English entry without another English test.

Past Offers

Current-course cases first, supplemented by same-institution scored cases.

Scored cases
Source countriesMalaysia · Indonesia
Common pathwayFoundation background · Bachelor background
Target levelBachelor degree · Master degree
Offer fieldsPhysics · Biology & Diversity
1
MalaysiaFoundation background
Bachelor of ScienceBachelor degree · Biology & Diversity · Offshore
GPA / 4.0GPA 4.0/4.04.00 · top band · approx. top 5%
2
MalaysiaDiploma background
Bachelor of CommerceBachelor degree · Finance · Offshore
GPA / 4.0GPA 3.97/4.0top band · approx. top 5%
3
IndonesiaBachelor background
Master of CommerceMaster degree · Business Analytics · Offshore
GPA / 4.0GPA 3.75/4.0top band · approx. top 5-10%
4
MalaysiaFoundation background
Bachelor of ScienceBachelor degree · Physics · Offshore
GPA / 4.0GPA 3.88/4.0top band · approx. top 5%
5
MalaysiaFoundation background
Bachelor of ScienceBachelor degree · Physics · Offshore
GPA / 4.0GPA 4.0/4.04.00 · top band · approx. top 5%

Course curriculum

Course structure, credit points and subject sequence

Course curriculum not yet available

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