Qualification profile

Graduates are qualified to perform basic architecture-specific activities largely independently and partially on their own responsibility. These include:

• Creating concepts, studies and drafts
• Drafting, designing and constructing buildings with a simple degree of difficulty in the context of the city and landscape
• Preparing design and execution plans with a simple degree of difficulty
• Participation in the preparation of the execution

Architects bear a particular social responsibility for the design of the built environment, including the aesthetic, atmospheric, functional, economic and ecological implications. During their university studies they learn and develop the necessary knowledge, creativity, energy, cooperation and responsibility for this range of tasks.

In the bachelor's degree programs in architecture and architecture+ and the master's degree program in architecture, the well-known and recognized profile of the Braunschweig School is taken up and further developed. The focus is on teaching design competence. This includes the intellectual skills of critical analysis, evaluation and comparison as well as the fundamental ability to engage in artistic-creative debate.

Like all undergraduate degree programs at the TU Braunschweig, the bachelor's degree programs are designed to lead to a university bachelor's degree. The acquired skills are relevant for the labor market, so that employability is achieved. However, the acquired knowledge and skills are not sufficient for an unrestricted independent activity in architecture and planning offices or other professional fields. For this purpose, further qualification is necessary, which can be achieved within the framework of a consecutive master's degree program.

The bachelor's program in architecture is a basic education for university architects. It is designed for the acquisition of knowledge and skills in the entire spectrum of the subject of architecture, i.e. it aims at training students to become generalists. This includes historical-cultural knowledge, artistic-creative skills, technical-constructive knowledge as well as competence in architectural and urban design. This includes the respective subject-specific methods and skills as well as professional and interdisciplinary qualifications. Graduates can be employed flexibly. They are able to find employment in all subject-related professional fields. The artistic, engineering and humanities competencies acquired in the Bachelor's degree program in architecture provide a suitable basis for the consecutive Master's degree program.

The Bachelor of Architecture+ program adds an international phase to the Bachelor of Architecture program. A two-semester study at selected foreign partner universities or a one-semester study abroad combined with a six-month internship abroad or the corresponding long cooperation in an international project with practical phases abroad are integrated into the Bachelor's program. The aim is to increase the mobility of students, to broaden their professional horizons and to enrich them with intercultural competence. The students thus receive self-report accreditation procedure architecture special career-preparing qualifications that prepare them for architectural fields of work in a globalized world.

The master's program in architecture is designed to enable specializations in the fields of architecture as well as a more advanced generalist education.

The focus of the master's program in architecture is design. A wide range of technical and methodological competencies in architectural and urban planning design are acquired in semester drafts and projects, the master's thesis (with appropriate thematic orientation) and in short-term drafts (compact and standing drafts). By combining these formats with seminars and design-related in-depth studies, students are enabled to address architectural issues in a professionally versed and scientifically sound manner. Graduates are thus able to recognize, analyze and evaluate structural-spatial problems against the background of political, social, economic, cultural and historical contexts and, on this basis, develop equally adequate, creative, innovative and sustainable solutions. They are able to responsibly apply their skills in all professional fields of architecture, whether in architectural or planning offices, in the construction industry, in public administrations or cultural institutions. They are equally qualified for scientific work and doctoral studies.