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Master’s in Architecture with Any Bachelor’s (M.Arch 2+)

The M.Arch 2+ degree invites those with undergraduate degrees outside architecture to pursue a comprehensive architectural education that prepares students for professional practice in the U.S. and across the globe.

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Get a Master's in Architecture with Any Bachelor's Degree

The M.Arch 2+ brings together students with diverse backgrounds from interior and graphic design to construction management, engineering to library sciences. Applicants with any bachelor’s degree can be considered. Students develop an individualized curriculum in consultation with their advisor, resulting in a program that varies in length from two-and-a-half to four years.

The degree is STEM-classified and students will earn professional accreditation with the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is a prerequisite for licensure in the U.S.

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Applications due by January 7, 2025

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Earn an Accredited Professional Degree

In the United States, most registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) is the sole agency authorized to accredit professional degree programs in architecture offered by institutions with U.S. regional accreditation. The M.Arch 2+ program earns students an accredited degree by offering a comprehensive architectural education, preparing students for professional practice in the U. S. and across the globe.

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Like many students in our M.Arch cohort, I came from a background in interior architecture. We added unique perspectives to a studio culture already rich in diversity. In various studios and fellowships, I had opportunities to travel to Barcelona, Puerto Rico, and Indonesia which exposed me to global perspectives that have truly changed my life and the course of my career in ways I could never have imagined.
Bridget Benge, AIA, Adjunct Professor, School of Architecture

Learn more about our world-class facilities!

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Our graduate students have access to a wide variety of world-class facilities, including:

  • Studio Spaces
  • The Ricker Library of Architecture and Art
  • Fabrication and Print (3D) labs
  • Computing Resources
  • Hosted Exhibitions, Reviews, and Events
Facilities & Spaces

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UP 136: Urban Sustainability 

This course explores ways we can begin to resolve global, regional and local issues of unsustainable development priorities by better understanding how and where we choose to live.

UP 160: Race, Social Justice, and Cities 

In this course, students will explore the contingent and contested social meanings attached to the idea of ‘race’ and how these ideas are mobilized into racist political projects to govern the inequalities shaped by centuries of genocide, land theft, racial slavery, decades of legalized segregation and neoliberal economic exclusions.

UP185: Cities in a Global Perspective 

Introduction to the process of urbanization from a global perspective by exploring the social, political, cultural and economic forces that shape urban life. Students will learn to analyze urban development in a range of cities including those in the Middle East and South Asia, Latin America and Africa.

UP 101: Introduction to City Planning 

This course provides an introduction to urban and regional planning by examining the history of American urbanization, the evolution of American planning thought and practice, and contemporary issues and planning approaches.