Options with a degree in architecture
An architecture degree gives you visual, planning and technical skills meaning you’ll be equipped for a creative, design-based career
These skills, along with other factors of career choice – what you like doing (your interests), what’s important to you (your values) and your personality type – will help you make informed career decisions. Remember that your career may be based on the skills you’ve gained over the course of your degree studies.
Some of the main career options with an Architecture degree are:
- Architect
- Architectural technologist
- Building control surveyor
- CAD technician
- Fire risk assessor
- Interior and spatial designer
- Town planner
- Urban designer
You can find out more about these on Prospects what can I do with my degree? as well as the wide variety of jobs where your skills and knowledge are applicable.
Useful resources to help with your careers research
- TARGETjobs – Architecture Degree Careers information
- RIAS – Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has some useful information on becoming an Architect
- The RIBA has some useful information on careers support.
- icould also has a full range of careers information interviews and case studies featuring numerous different roles which you can search through and view online. Some relevant case studies.
To help you explore the wide range of career options open to you have a look at Prospects what can I do with my degree? and take the Prospects Career Planner Quiz.
Volunteering locally
If you are interested in gaining some voluntary experience locally you may find the following websites helpful
- Volunteer Scotland advertises a number of local and national volunteering vacancies
- Dundee Volunteer and Voluntary Action advertises a number of Dundee based volunteering vacancies
Work experience and graduate jobs
- RIBA Part 1 & Part 2 Jobs – How to get one
- University of Dundee JobShop
- RIBA Jobs
- RIAS – Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland – Advertise Architecture vacancies
- AJ Jobs
- myjobscotland for local authority vacancies
General
The following websites may be helpful to search the wider job market, where your transferable skills can be applied.
Graduate schemes
Many leading UK employers across all industries run graduate training programmes, to discover the benefits of these schemes and how you apply the links below will help: