The Post-Professional Program

The post-professional degree program is a mid-career, post-professional intensive course for those individuals in the design fields who seek to expand their knowledge and to advance their professional careers. In this program, students have the opportunity to study recent developments in their design fields resulting from advances in information technology, new theories and methods and emergent discoveries and associations. The program currently offers the master of architecture II degree program. The program has a research orientation and agenda, and its general intent is to create an educational context within which the fundamental practices of architecture and urbanism can be examined, advanced and extended. The program has been designed to be both flexible and interdisciplinary so as to provide students with a broad range of options that can accommodate and respond to each student’s own interests and study agenda through course work, independent study or optional training.

Post-Professional Program: The Master of Architecture II

The master of architecture II is an advanced degree program that provides its students with a range of opportunities for exploring and extending their knowledge of the practice of architecture. Students applying for admission to the program must have been awarded a five-year or six-year first-professional degree in architecture. They may enter the master of architecture II program in any semester of the academic year.

NOTE: The master of architecture II program does not offer an NAAB first-professional degree; it is an advanced studies program for those who already hold this first-professional degree.

Students in the program must complete 30 semester hours of credit in required, recommended and elective course work to qualify for the master of architecture II degree. To be eligible for graduation from the program, students must complete 12 semester hours of advanced design studio (ARCH 6170/6171 or UD 6600/6601) in the degree project sequence and 12 semester hours in required and/or focus-area course work particular to their area of study. The remaining 6 semester hours are elective course work. A typical sequence of course work within a focus area leading to the award of the master of architecture II degree is as follows:

Dual Degree Options

Students may enroll in a dual degree program with landscape architecture (MArch and MLA), with MURP (MArch and MURP), with MUD (MArch and MUD) or with the Business School (MArch and MBA).