BSc Architecture at University of Pretoria

B.Sc. Architecture provides students with knowledge and skills for the creative process of planning and designing, in urban and rural areas.

Programme information

Architecture entails the design of buildings and the spaces between those buildings.

It is the art and science that is employed in order to create a liveable environment, thus contributing towards the spiritual and material prosperity of the country.

Architects are often independent thinkers, individualists, and innovators.

Although they are employed by organizations involved with the development, investment, research, marketing, industry, or even education, many architects prefer to be independent consultants and entrepreneurs.

BScArch is regarded as an exit level that enables the graduate to register as a candidate architectural technologist, and BArchHons as candidate senior architectural technologist, at the South African Council for the Architectural Profession.

An architectural technologist is a professional person registered by the SACAP in terms of the Act on the Architectural Profession (Act 44 of 2000). Such practitioners provide assistance in the practices of the disciplines of architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design where their responsibilities would be the documentation of projects, project administration, and site management.

Students are advised to work in the offices of an architect or a landscape architect to gain practical experience during the university recesses.

A graduate wishing to become a professional architect must apply for and pursue a further two years of full-time studies in the professional degree program.

The Master of Architecture (Professional) degree is recognized by the South African Council for the Architectural Profession as qualifying the graduate to register as a candidate professional architect in terms of the Act on the Architectural Profession (Act 44 of 2000).

Admission requirements

The following persons will be considered for admission: a candidate who is in possession of a certificate that is deemed by the University to be equivalent to the required Grade 12 certificate with university endorsement; a candidate who is a graduate from another tertiary institution or has been granted the status of a graduate of such an institution; and a candidate who is a graduate of another faculty at the University of Pretoria.

Life Orientation is excluded when calculating the APS.

Grade 11 results are used in the provisional admission of prospective students.

A valid qualification with admission to degree studies is required.

Minimum subject and achievement requirements, as set out below, are required.

On the first-year level, a student has a choice between Afrikaans and English as a language medium.

In certain cases, tuition may be presented in English only, for example in electives, where the lecturer may not speak Afrikaans or in cases where it is not economically or practically viable.

● BSc (Architecture) will only be considered as the first study choice. Selection program: Selection includes an interview.

Minimum requirements

Achievement level
Afrikaans or English Mathematics Physical Sciences
APS
NSC/IEB HIGCSE AS-Level A-Level NSC/IEB HIGCSE AS-Level A-Level NSC/IEB HIGCSE AS-Level A-Level 5 3 C C 4 3 D D 4 3 D D 27.

Duration: 3 years

What jobs can I get with a Bachelors of Science architecture?

Architect.

Architectural technologist.

Interior and spatial designer.

Building surveyor.

Town planner.

Production designer.

Historic buildings inspector.

Structural engineer.