Architecture Professional Experience Development Record (PEDR)

The successful completion of the requisite number of Professional Experience and Development Record (PEDR) sheets is required to be eligible to sit the RIBA/ARB Part 3 exam in architecture and to register as an architect in the UK.

You must have an ARB/RIBA proscribed/validated Part 1 degree certificate or evidence of equivalent qualification.

International students

If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.0 overall with 5.5 in each band, or equivalent when you start the course is essential. English Language tuition, delivered by our British Council-accredited Centre for English Language Learning, is available both before and throughout the course if you need it.

You are required to have completed a minimum of eight Professional Experience and Development Record (PEDR) sheets in order to be eligible to take the RIBA/ARB Part 3 exam in architecture and to register as an architect in the UK.
At the Leicester School of Architecture at DMU, you will need to enrol on the PEDR graduate monitoring service in order to have your PEDR sheets endorsed by a DMU professional studies adviser (PSA).
You will use the online RIBA PEDR sheets to monitor and evaluate your experience in architectural practice under the supervision of a qualified person within the practice, called your employment mentor.
On enrolment, you will be allocated a PSA who will receive, evaluate and endorse, by signature, your PEDR sheets, which will make them valid as evidence of professional experience for the purposes of eligibility for the Part 3 exam.
You may enrol on the PEDR programme after completing your Architecture BA (Hons) or concurrently with the part-time BA/MArch course or after you have completed the BA/MArch course. You will automatically be enrolled on the PEDR programme if you start the PG Dip in Architectural Practice (RIBA/ARB Part 3) course, provided you have valid Part 1 and Part 2 qualifications and have already obtained four suitably endorsed PEDR sheets.