Undergraduate courses in architecture and civil engineering

Our accredited BSc, BEng, MEng and MArch courses provide you with an education you can be proud of.

Improve your employability with an engineering placement year

Put your theory into practice with a year-long, paid placement during your engineering degree. You could earn between £14,000 and £25,000.

Becoming an architect at Bath

Find out about the educational steps you'll take to become an architect and how the course at Bath varies from other institutions.

Developing design solutions with architecture and civil engineering projects

Cross-discipline project work prepares our students for the professional team relationships they will experience in their careers.

Taught postgraduate degrees in architecture and civil engineering

Find out about what MSc and other taught postgraduate courses we offer in the Department.

Architecture and Civil Engineering research degrees

Find out more about our PhD programme and how you can apply.

Architecture and Civil Engineering PhD projects on FindAPhD.com

Find out about the latest funded and self-funded PhD projects, scholarships and studentships available in our Department.

Apply for an architectural apprenticeship

You can study at Bath for a Master of Architecture (Part 2) and Postgraduate Certificate in Architectural Practice (Part 3) as an architectural apprentice.

Exploit your expertise as an architect or engineer via a part-time, practice-led PhD

A flexible route that allows qualified architects or engineering professionals to study for a PhD while working part-time.

Envisioning reciprocal

For their first project at university, architecture and civil engineering students Isobel, Greg and Arun, designed and built a cantilever structure.

Transforming communities: a building for the many lives of Filton airfield

The 2019 Basil Spence winning design looked to foster a relationship between industry and community at Filton in Bristol.

Dreaming of electric sheep

Justin Bean’s RIBA Bronze Medal winning design for a hotel built around an electrical substation, aims to explore our complex relationship with technology.

[Re]-constructing Porto: the Massarellos School of Construction

Michael Lewis' award winning thesis reinvents Porto’s industrial heritage by embracing traditional Portuguese architecture and sustainable technologies.

Hexagonal bamboo structures for small community living

Three civil engineering students’ award-winning design encourages a shift to water-based and renewable living in Bangladesh.

Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering research

Climate change, innovative and holistic design, and historical interpretation are the fundamental drivers of our collaborative research.

Saving structures across the globe

We’ve developed assessment and strengthening techniques for ageing concrete bridges and structures. Our guidance is used by consulting engineers worldwide.

New VSimulators 'skyscraper simulator' facility opened at the University of Bath

A moving chamber equipped with virtual reality projection will aid study of people’s reactions to different buildings, including swaying skyscrapers and bridges

New high-definition satellite radar can detect bridges at risk of collapse from space

Researchers from NASA and the University of Bath have developed a satellite-based early warning system that could spot bridges at risk of collapse.

Waste materials to be tested as viable options for insulating buildings

The University of Bath is testing a number of waste materials to assess their thermal performance as potential materials for insulating buildings.

'I’ve always been interested in how the physics of the ocean impacts what lives there.'

PhD student, Russell Arnott is researching phytoplankton in turbulent environments. He tells us about his work and the importance of understanding our oceans.