School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

This page takes you to tailored information and resources to explore the career options available related to our undergraduate degree programmes. However, many of these resources will also be useful for Master's Students and Doctoral Researchers in these subject areas. For information on a wider range of job roles and professions, including careers for which your specific degree subject is not necessarily required, you can also look at the Prospects and TargetJobs websites. 

  • Imaginative and creative thinking skills
  • Information management
  • Analysis, critical thinking and attention to detail
  • Self-reflection
  • Communication and visualisation
  • Multi-disciplinary team-work
  • IT and digital design skills
  • Understanding of materials and the built environment, structural and construction technologies
  • Commercial awareness
  • Organisation and project management
  • Appreciation of history, and legal, cultural and environmental issues

Careers directly related to your degree:

Careers where your degree would be useful:

Remember 60% of graduate roles are open to all disciplines. During your during your degree you will develop many skills that are valued in a variety of sectors, including consultancy, management and information technology.

You can also look at other course pages depending on other modules you have taken and/or are interested in.

Further study at Loughborough University:

The School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering offers postgraduate courses in a variety of disciplines.

The School also offers PhD / MPhil research opportunities.

Further study elsewhere:

Postgraduate taught programmes:

PhD opportunities:

Architecture graduates have gone on to destinations where:

Employers included:

Barclay + Phillips Architects, David Morley Architects, Hudson Architects, Jo Cowen Architects, Sevenoaks District Council, Studio Spicer Architects and The Orchard School of Cookery.

Roles included:

Architectural Assistant, Draftsman, Level 7 Architectural Assistant, Part 2 Architectural Assistant and Recruitment Assistant.

Further study included:

Architecture graduates undertook postgraduate courses or PhDs at Loughborough University, Manchester Metropolitan University and The Royal College of Art.

Further information

For more information on companies graduates work for, industry links and career opportunities, visit the subject area page of the University website.  You can also find out what our students say in our student stories of personal journeys through and beyond Loughborough and track the career journeys and Loughborough experiences of some of our alumni.

Websites:

Professional bodies:

Sector and labour market information (LMI):

Students have the option of taking a year-long placement in industry which provides an invaluable opportunity to develop their professional and technical skills further.

Additionally, we advertise many opportunities for summer internships and encourage students to gain experience valuable in the workplace through extra-curricular activities such as volunteering, committee memberships, work-shadowing and part-time work.

See Target Connect for vacancies and opportunities.

Other useful links: