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Studying Architecture at QUT is your pathway to creating the environments of tomorrow that will make positive impacts on health, the environment, social relationships and urban systems.
Problem solve creatively
'My studies at QUT taught me to think realistically and to problem solve creatively. The course encouraged me to look for different solutions. It taught me to be open to a wide range of influences and to make connections. This has been invaluable in my working life. Collaborating on projects with other students provided me with a very good base for working in an integrated design firm.'
International experiences
'Opportunities such as overseas study tours to Europe and Asia taught me to confidently approach challenges and think critically about the impact design has on our world.'
Real community
'The feeling of community in our architecture cohort is a real highlight for me. Being a proud Aboriginal woman myself, I hope to include our rich culture and its people in architecture. I believe indigenous representation in architecture and design would add depth and diversity to Australia’s cities.'
Double your opportunities
'I want to make a positive contribution to the world. Throughout all of my schooling I've had a strong passion and aptitude for science, math and problem solving, which led me to contemplating studying engineering. I also found myself loving the arts and feeling the need to express my creativity and design-thinking, so I was drawn to architecture. A double degree combining both architecture and engineering naturally became my first choice.'
Architecture at QUT
Studying Architecture at QUT is your pathway to creating the environments of tomorrow that will make positive impacts on health, the environment, social relationships and urban systems.
Problem solve creatively
'My studies at QUT taught me to think realistically and to problem solve creatively. The course encouraged me to look for different solutions. It taught me to be open to a wide range of influences and to make connections. This has been invaluable in my working life. Collaborating on projects with other students provided me with a very good base for working in an integrated design firm.'
International experiences
'Opportunities such as overseas study tours to Europe and Asia taught me to confidently approach challenges and think critically about the impact design has on our world.'
Real community
'The feeling of community in our architecture cohort is a real highlight for me. Being a proud Aboriginal woman myself, I hope to include our rich culture and its people in architecture. I believe indigenous representation in architecture and design would add depth and diversity to Australia’s cities.'
Double your opportunities
'I want to make a positive contribution to the world. Throughout all of my schooling I've had a strong passion and aptitude for science, math and problem solving, which led me to contemplating studying engineering. I also found myself loving the arts and feeling the need to express my creativity and design-thinking, so I was drawn to architecture. A double degree combining both architecture and engineering naturally became my first choice.'
Highlights
- Design the sustainable cities and structures of our future with Queensland’s most in-demand architecture degree.
- Learn from real-world architects working in the field, and get insights and opportunities that’ll give you a competitive edge.
- Complete up to 100 hours of real work placement and gain the skills and experience you need to step confidently into your future career.
- Bring your concepts to life in our advanced design and fabrication workshops, with expert guidance from our dedicated technical team.
- Make valuable connections at our industry events hosted by QUT and our student clubs and societies.
- Continue your journey to becoming a registered architect with our two-year Master of Architecture.
Highlights
- Design the sustainable cities and structures of our future with Queensland’s most in-demand architecture degree.
- Learn from real-world architects working in the field, and get insights and opportunities that’ll give you a competitive edge.
- Complete up to 100 hours of real work placement and gain the skills and experience you need to step confidently into your future career.
- Bring your concepts to life in our advanced design and fabrication workshops, with expert guidance from our dedicated technical team.
- Make valuable connections at our industry events hosted by QUT and our student clubs and societies.
- Continue your journey to becoming a registered architect with our two-year Master of Architecture.
Why choose this course?
With a focus on innovation in design and sustainable development, a QUT Architecture degree will give you the skills and experience you need to design the cities and structures of our future.
QUT is ranked as one of the top 100 universities in the world for architecture and built environment**, and we are proud to have Queensland’s most in-demand architecture degree.
With a strong reputation in the industry, our graduates are in high demand. The percentage of our graduates who secure full-time employment is among the highest in the country***, and our graduates have the highest starting salaries of all Brisbane architecture graduates.
You’ll be taught by practising architects with direct industry links, who’ll share valuable insights and opportunities that’ll give you a competitive edge. You’ll also have opportunities to connect with our young alumni who’ve successfully established themselves in the industry.
Throughout your studies, you’ll undertake projects and hone your skills in our advanced design studios and fabrication workshops, where you’ll be guided and supported by our expert technical team. You’ll also work with students from other disciplines to address real-world challenges, just as you would in a real architectural practice.
Real-world learning
Throughout your degree, you will undertake architectural design projects with a practical edge which will require you
to think logically and creatively about how buildings function and are constructed. You can broaden your mind, education and life experience with real-world field trips, international study tours, and student exchange with partners all over the world including Italy, Canada, France, China, Hungary, Colombia, Mexico, USA, UK and more.
Explore this course
Your degree will begin with introductory and shared impact lab units where, working with students from other disciplines, you’ll focus on problems and social issues and identify potential solutions connected to industry and community. Your introductory studies will also introduce you to visualisation skills and applications needed to formulate design as an exploration of the materials of the built environment.
You’ll then build on these foundations and explore areas including environmental principles and the global movement of modern architecture with design studio units covering the process of design, dwelling, tectonics and public spaces.
Later in your degree, you’ll transfer your skills and knowledge to a workplace or professional context and gain practical work experience through our work integrated learning program. At the end of your degree, you can progress onto our two-year Master of Architecture and continue your journey to becoming a registered architect in Australia and overseas.
Double degrees
Combine your architecture degree with a second degree to gain a broader range of skills and knowledge, a competitive advantage and enhanced career flexibility. Choose a double degree with:
- business to lead to careers intersecting design with marketing, public relations, advertising, international business, economics, management and human resource management.
- engineering to enable a range of opportunities including careers in architecture, project management, property development, construction, civil engineering and urban design.
- property economics to combine your design skills with sound economic intelligence is highly valued and use your ability to research, develop, value and design property for investment in both commercial and government sectors.
- construction management to become a valuable architect and project manager in the building industry.
* QTAC First Preferences 2022
** QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022
*** Source: Graduate Outcomes Survey 2019-2021 / Australian Taxation Office 2017-18 financial year / Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) / ComparED compared.edu.au
Careers and outcomes
With an Architecture degree from QUT, you’ll be able to start your design career as a junior designer, draftsperson, set designer and more. To become a registered architect, you’ll need to undertake two more years of training in our Master of Architecture program, and then pass the Architectural Practice Exam once you’ve completed two years of practical experience.
Careers and outcomes
Graduates can find employment in the fields of architecture and building design. Upon completion of a two-year’s Master of Architecture degree and the required period of practical practice, graduates are eligible to sit for registration exam to be an architect in Australia.
Possible careers
- Architect
- Architectural Historian
- Architectural Writer / Journalist
- Construction Manager
- Set Designer
- Sustainability Design Consultant
To meet the course requirements for the Bachelor of Design (Architecture), you must complete a total of 288 credit points, made up of:
- a design major (144 credit points), including four shared foundation units (48 credit points) and 96 credit points from the architecture discipline
- four school-wide impact lab units (48 credit points)
- complementary studies, made up of both:
- four architecture design specialisation units (48 credit points)
- a minor, or a combination of design specialisation units and electives (unit options) (48 credit points).
Study overseas
Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT creative industries degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.
Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in a creative or non-creative discipline area, depending on how they match with your QUT course.
To meet the course requirements for the Bachelor of Design (Architecture), you must complete a total of 288 credit points, made up of:
- a design major (144 credit points), including four shared foundation units (48 credit points) and 96 credit points from the architecture discipline
- four school-wide impact lab units (48 credit points)
- complementary studies, made up of both:
- four architecture design specialisation units (48 credit points)
- a minor, or a combination of design specialisation units and electives (unit options) (48 credit points).
Study overseas
Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT creative industries degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.
Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in a creative or non-creative discipline area, depending on how they match with your QUT course.
- ATAR/selection rank threshold
- 79.00
These thresholds are the lowest adjusted scores to which QUT made an offer in Semester 1, 2022.
Don't have a ATAR/selection rank?
- Course code
- DE43
- QTAC code
- 412372
- CRICOS code
- 096565B
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- Gardens Point
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- Gardens Point
- 3 years full-time
- 6 years part-time
- 3 years full-time
- February and July
- February and July
Assumed knowledge
Before you start this course, we assume you have sound knowledge of the subject/s listed below. If you don't have the subject knowledge, you can still apply for the course but we strongly encourage you to undertake bridging studies to gain the knowledge:
- English, or Literature, or English and Literature Extension, or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 & 4, C)
Offer guarantee
If you achieve an ATAR or selection rank of 89.00 or higher (including any adjustments) and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.
Advanced standing
If you have prior studies or work experience, you may be eligible for advanced standing (credit). You can apply for advanced standing once you've been accepted to QUT. If you're in your first semester of study, you must apply for advanced standing within 10 days of receiving your offer.
Deferment
You can defer your offer and postpone the start of your course for one year.
More about deferring your offer
Adjustments to your ATAR/selection rank
Any adjustments you receive to your ATAR or selection rank will be applied to this course.
Find out if you’re eligible for an adjustment to your ATAR or selection rank
Offers we made to school leavers in Semester 1, 2022
The figures listed in the tables below reflect the offers that were made to recent ATAR students. The entry thresholds box at the top of this page shows the lowest adjusted ATAR/selection rank required to receive an offer for all applicants for the most recent January QTAC offer round.
| Excluding adjustments | Including adjustments | |
|---|---|---|
| Highest ATAR/selection rank to receive an offer |
Selection rank
98.20
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Selection rank
99.95
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| Median ATAR/selection rank to receive an offer |
Selection rank
84.35
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Selection rank
85.15
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| Lowest ATAR/selection rank to receive an offer |
Selection rank
71.55
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Selection rank
79.00
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You can find out more about your fellow students’ backgrounds with this course’s student profile.
Other admission options
If you are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, you may be eligible for admission through our Centralised Assessment Selection Process (CASP).
Select the country where you completed your studies to see a guide to the grades you need to apply for this course.
If your country or qualification is not listed, you can still apply for this course and we will assess your eligibility.
I completed secondary school in Australia
- ATAR/selection rank
- 79.00
Offer guarantee
If you completed secondary school in Australia and achieve an ATAR/selection rank of 89.00 or higher (including any adjustments) and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.
Minimum English language requirements
Select the country where you completed your studies to see a guide on meeting QUT’s English language requirements.
Your scores and prior qualifications in English-speaking countries are considered. Approved English-speaking countries are Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, United States of America and Wales.
If your country or qualification is not listed, you can still apply for this course and we will assess your eligibility.
We accept English language proficiency scores from the following tests. Tests must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement.
| English Test | Overall | Listening | Reading | Writing | Speaking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTE Academic/PTE Academic Online | 58 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
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Cambridge English Score
You must share your results with QUT through the Candidate Results Online website. |
176 | 169 | 169 | 169 | 169 |
| IELTS Academic / IELTS Online | 6.5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| TOEFL iBT / Home / Paper | 79 | 16 | 16 | 21 | 18 |
Don't have the English language score you need? We can help!
We offer English language programs to improve your English and help you gain entry to this course.
When you apply for this course, we will recommend which English course you should enrol in.
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2023 fees
2023: CSP $8,700 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2023 fees
2023: $33,000 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2022 fees
2022: CSP $8,500 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2022 fees
2022: $32,500 per year full-time (96 credit points)
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
Find out more about undergraduate course fees
HECS-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a HECS-HELP loan.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.
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