Joint Graduate Degrees

Overview

This joint degree program enables students to gain two separate, concurrent degrees: the Master of Architecture and the Master of Urban Planning, offered by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Each degree is under the control of its granting unit with its own advisor. While a graduate candidate must meet the requirements for each degree, application and admission to both units need not be simultaneous.

Reciprocity of credit hours allows students to complete these two degrees, normally requiring two years each, in a total of three years. To receive both degrees, students must complete a total of at least 86 hours, including at least 32 hours of Urban Planning courses and 54 hours of Architecture courses. These courses must include core and capstone courses for each program. To satisfy requirements of the Graduate College, joint degree students must be enrolled for at least two semesters in each of the two programs. Students can apply initially to both programs simultaneously, with one application fee. Alternatively, students may apply to the MUP once they have enrolled in the M. Arch program.

Please email Clint Reifsteck with inquiries.

Overview

We offer a joint degree program between the M.Arch and M.S. in Architectural Studies with a concentration in Structures. Successful completion of this joint degree program leads to two degrees as well as record of Structures as a concentration on the student’s transcript.

Prerequisite subjects include the following: calculus I and II; statics and dynamics; mechanics of materials; one course in structural steel design and one course in reinforced concrete design. Students without these prerequisites may enter the Structures concentration upon completion of their prerequisite courses.

Students interested in participating must be admitted to the School of Architecture’s M.Arch. and M.S. degree programs, register their intent to enter the Structures concentration with the School’s Graduate Office prior to completing their second semester in their degree program, and complete 27 graduate credit hours of architectural structures courses.

Please email Clint Reifsteck with inquiries.

Overview

This joint masters degree program links the School of Architecture and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Structural Engineering area. Participants receive an M. Arch and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering (M.S.C.E.). Students will need to apply and be admitted to the CEE graduate program in structural engineering in the second semester of the M. Arch degree program.

The GRE exam is optional for application to this program. Applicants are expected to have had and successfully passed one course in matrix algebra and one course in differential equations as prerequisites to enrolling.

Please email Clint Reifsteck with inquiries.

This joint degree program enables students to concurrently earn the Master of Architecture (M.Arch) and the Master of Science offered by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (M.S.C.E.), Construction Management area.

Each degree is under the control of its granting unit with its own advisor. Candidates for these degrees must meet the requirements for each degree. The GRE exam is optional for application to the M.S.C.E. program. Normally, application to civil engineering is made to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering after at least one semester of successful study in the M.Arch degree program.

Please email Clint Reifsteck with inquiries.