Scholarship Information

• Scholarship Coverage：part of tuition
• Estimate Scholarship Amount (RMB): 0-88,000
• Success Rate：80%
• Deadline for payment: May 31, 2024
• Deadline for document:May 31, 2024
• Scholarship Service Fee:$500

You Need Pay After Got Scholarship (RMB)

Tuition: 88,000 0-88,000

Accommodation: 48-78RMB per day

Living Expense: around 1,500 RMB/ month

Scholarship Detail

1. Early bird discount: All applicants who submit an online application and accept their conditional or unconditional offer by May 1st, 2024 will automatically qualify for a 8,000 RMB early bird discount.
2. Entry Scholarship for Undergraduate and Masters applicants: From 10% to 50% off tuition fee
3. Industry-leadership scholarship for Taicang campus programs: 30% discount off tuition fee
4. 10% discount off the tuition fees from the University of Liverpool for undergraduate students who choose “2+2” pathway (Year 1&2 at XJTLU, Year 3&4 at the University of Liverpool, UK)
5. Academic Merit Scholarship: Top 25% students can carry the entry scholarship percentage onto year 2, year 3, and year 4.

Eligibility

1. Academic requirement:
-Entry into Year One:
high school performance with a minimum “B” average in all subjects.
-Entry into Year Two:
A-Level: BBB
IB: 30 points
Advanced Placement Tests/Subject SATS--High school diploma with a GPA of 3.0/4.0 or above, plus: 3 SAT II Subject Test 600+ or 3 AP exams 4+ or either SAT I Test at 1280+ or ACT Composite Score at 27, and 2 AP exams 4+ or 2 SAT II Subject Test 600+

2. English language requirements:
If you are a non-native English speaker, or if you have not previously studied in English, you must have satisfactory English language skills to study at XJTLU. Various English qualifications are accepted:
-Entry into Year One
IELTS 5.0 (min 4.5 in all sections) / TOEFL 62 (iBT)
-Entry into Year Two
IELTS 6.5 (min 5.5 in all sections) / TOEFL 90 (iBT) (min 21 in any skill)

Documents You Need to Provide

Certificates of education qualifications and transcripts, translated into English

Certificates of English language qualifications such as IELTS, TOEFL or other acceptable English qualifications (as required for non-native speakers of English)

SAT, ACT or other entrance aptitude test scores (if available)

Personal Statement

International students: Photocopy of your passport

Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan students: Passport, Mainland travel permit, and ID.

Portfolio (only for BEng Architecture, BA Filmmaking, BA TV Production and BA Digital Media Arts)

Taiwan GSAT Result Check Form (only for GSAT students)

1. Academic requirement:
-Entry into Year One:
high school performance with a minimum “B” average in all subjects.
-Entry into Year Two:
A-Level: BBB
IB: 30 points
Advanced Placement Tests/Subject SATS--High school diploma with a GPA of 3.0/4.0 or above, plus: 3 SAT II Subject Test 600+ or 3 AP exams 4+ or either SAT I Test at 1280+ or ACT Composite Score at 27, and 2 AP exams 4+ or 2 SAT II Subject Test 600+

2. English language requirements:
If you are a non-native English speaker, or if you have not previously studied in English, you must have satisfactory English language skills to study at XJTLU. Various English qualifications are accepted:
-Entry into Year One
IELTS 5.0 (min 4.5 in all sections) / TOEFL 62 (iBT)
-Entry into Year Two
IELTS 6.5 (min 5.5 in all sections) / TOEFL 90 (iBT) (min 21 in any skill)

Resources

• students and staff with high ambitions
• international experience in a fast-developing Chinese context
• leading UK and Chinese partner institutions
• a diverse mix of strong and international staff
• excellent campus and facilities
• Suzhou: a historical and contemporary city with a high quality of living

Strengths

• independent and critical thinking
• social concerns in rapidly developing contexts
• creative and innovative design thinking
• concern for the future, based on contemporary approaches to heritage
• integration of architectural design with academic research
• pedagogical agility
• a passion for technical speculation

Values

• promote architecture which provides functional integrity, structural stability and delight
• foster humanistic design and universalism
• develop innovative integrations of research and design
• understand design as a process of exploration, negotiation and resolution
• encourage interdisciplinary research and design across the built environment and beyond
• cultivate proficiency of analogue and digital media
• encourage open-ended speculation and risk-taking
• explore the possible from what seems impossible
• ensure academic rigour and integrity
• promote architectural integrity
• maintain professional standards

OVERVIEW

The BEng Architecture programme aims to provide you with a comprehensive foundation in architecture. Through architectural design tasks you will be guided in developing an understanding of the importance of human needs and desires, as well as developing creative and responsible solutions.

WHY SHOULD I STUDY ARCHITECTURE AT XJTLU?

• RIBA Part 1 Validation
• Excellent career prospects and opportunities for further studies
• Opportunities for exciting work experience and internships
• Award-winning international and highly engaged academic staff from more than 15 different countries
• Opportunity to spend Year 3 at Politecnico di Torino in Italy, and receive the same RIBA validated degree as other students in the 4-year programme
• Partially-funded field trips within China and overseas
• Participation in local and international workshops with world-famous architects
• Participation in exhibitions
• Participation in competitions and conferences
• Opportunities to be published in the XJTLU Architecture Yearbook
• World-class facilities including dedicated design studios, a materials library, and fabrication and printing workshops equipped with printers, laser cutters and 3D printers
• Highly engaged technicians able to help with fabrication technologies
• Two degrees: an XJTLU degree from the Chinese Ministry of Education and a globally recognised degree from the University of Liverpool, a member of the Russell Group of leading UK universities.

RIBA VALIDATION

The BEng Architecture programme has become the first programme of its kind at a Chinese university to receive validation by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), thus demonstrating XJTLU's commitment to providing world-class, internationally recognised education to students from China and abroad.

The Royal Institute commended the Department of Architecture and its staff for “creating a distinctive environment in which students learn from an international and Chinese context with an ambition to produce a new type of graduate, with an emphasis on human-centred architecture, for the emerging global context."

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

By the time you graduate from BEng Architecture, you will have:

• fluency in the productive use of analogue and digital design media
• knowledge of both Chinese and Western cultures in relation to architectural history and theory
• an understanding of processes that form and transform urban space, principles of structure and construction, environmental control, and professional practice
• an ability to generate competitive, creative and critical design proposals
• an ability to apply a range of communication methods and media to present design proposals clearly and effectively
• an understanding of alternative materials, processes and techniques related to architectural design and construction
• an ability to evaluate evidence, arguments and assumptions in order to make and present sound judgments both within architectural design discourse and beyond
• knowledge of the context of the architect and the construction industry, and the professional qualities needed for decision making in complex and unpredictable circumstances
• an ability to identify individual learning needs and understand the personal responsibility required for further professional education

MODULES

Year One

UK degrees are three years long whereas in China they are four, therefore we do accept students with certain qualifications directly into Year Two, which is the start of the main academic programme. Most students, however, enter into Year One, which provides you with a range of interesting modules, language classes and core skills for your degree.

• Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture
• Architectural Representation and Communication
• Additional Modules required by the University

Year Two

Year Two provides the basis for the subsequent years of the programme. You will be introduced to the history and theory of architecture, building science, structure and construction as well as building technology.

Experimental studio modules introduce you to the presentation, modelling and design of architectural spaces and small buildings.

• Design studio: design thinking and articulation
• Design studio: small space design
• Design studio: small scale architectural design
• History of Western architecture
• Structure and materials
• Introduction to environmental science
• Construction and materials
• Humanities and architecture.

Year Three

In Year Three, you will pursue design projects that require the integration of a more complex range of contextual parameters. You will continue to learn about building technology and the history and theory of architecture and urban developments.

• Design studio: design and building typology
• Design studio: small urban buildings
• Environmental design and sustainability
• History of Asian architecture
• Structural design
• Urban studies.

Year Four

In the final year, you will demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of architectural design processes from initial concepts to the design of buildings, taking into account human needs and desires as well as structural, material and environmental considerations.

Modules on digital design and building technology, theory, aesthetics and professional practice are designed to support the studio tasks. In Year Four, you will have the opportunity to select studio projects from a series of parallel briefs.

• Small and Medium Scale Buildings
• Final Year Project
• Architectural technology
• Architectural theory
• Professional practice
• Philosophy of art and aesthetics.

CAREERS

Architecture graduates find excellent opportunities for professional employment and for further education both locally and internationally in architecture and its related disciplines, as well as in other creative industries. Most of our graduates continue their studies on international masters programmes, either directly or after a year out in practice. Around 20 percent of our graduates have received offers for further studies from universities ranked at the very top in the field, such as the University of Pennsylvania, the Bartlett Faculty at the University College London, the University of Sydney, the Politecnico di Milano, McGill University in Canada, and the National University of Singapore. Our graduates have also gone on to work for acclaimed international and Chinese practices such as David Chipperfield, Tong Ming Studio, Farrells, and Arup.

FEES

International students
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RMB 88,000 per academic year

Early bird discount
Early bird discount of RMB 8,000 (approx. GBP 860) available (accept the conditional or unconditional offer before 1st May)

Join a free Chinese language course
We now offer a free summer Chinese language course for all undergraduate and postgraduate students starting their degree before program start.