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E-PrinceArchitecture majors at most universities with specialized programs receive a Bachelor of Architecture degree (B.Arch.). Princeton students in the School of Architecture, however, receive a Bachelor of Arts degree (A.B.).
Unlike other universities’, Princeton’s architecture school is ...
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How well-edited!
The title seems to have been added on by some editor. Blueprints? What?
nice article!
This article is utterly false.
Most architecture undergraduate programs, like Princeton's, are a 4-year non-professional degree, which means you have to go get a masters to practice. There's really not very many 5-year accredited B.Arch programs out there, and most of them are at sub-par schools.
Don't let the lack of a professional degree scare you away. Princeton's undergraduate program in architecture is the best in the country and prepares students to be leaders in the field much better than other school.
I have been amazed to see the work of Princeton architecture students. It would be great if there could be some type of acceptance by more three-year graduate programs for some of the Princeton undergraduate work.
What a terrible and strained headline.
@Vic:
What sort of 'acceptance' are you referring to? Princeton undergrad architecture major regularly get accepted to all of the top architecture graduate programs (Princeton, Yale, Harvard, etc etc etc).
This is NOT correct, a B.Arch is the first professional degree, masters is NOT required.
At a university with an accredited program, a B.Arch. is a five-year degree. Students who graduate with that degree then go to a year and a half of graduate school if they want to be professionally qualified as architects.
BobK's comment is a bit confusing. To clarify, the accredited 5 year BArch programs offer a professional degree with which one can gain licensure after 3 years of internships. Some BArchs graduates choose to also aquire an MArch degree for teaching or other purposes. As a "post-professional" MArch candidate, the time required for this degree varies from one calendar year (at many state programs, Wash U) to two full years (Yale).
RY is correct that the vast majority of architecture programs offer unaccredited BA degrees (as a BArch/MArch holder I'll choose not to respond to his BArch "sub-par" comment). There are typically two basic structures for this. Princeton, Yale and a few others offer architecture majors where there's basically - at most - 2 years of focus within the discipline (ie. studio and other core classes). Many schools offer the 4 + 2 system where one gets a 4 year BA in Architecture and can choose to continue on for two more years to gain an accreditted MArch (or they can go elsewhere for 2 1/2 to 3 years). In these programs - UVA, Florida, Texas A&M, U Illinois, etc - the BA students spend much of their four years in studio and core coursework.
As a University of Cincinnati BArch graduate working in the Northeast and abroad for the past twenty years, I find RY's post as utterly false and condescending as she finds the original article. There are many programs out there that rival and surpass Princeton for preparing "leaders in the field", as well as architecture degree holders who go on to be leaders in other fields. One should not overlook how design schools cultivate the individual to harness one's thought process as applied to the built environment and beyond.
Several years ago I had the opportunity to be in attendance at Princeton's senior architecture project juries. When asked where the doors and windows "were", the student replied that the "doors and windows are inconsequential". I surmise that the student went on to be a leader in the field - just not architecture.