California at Berkeley, University of    [back]
Department of Architecture
Berkeley, Calif.
arch.ced.berkeley.edu
Dean: Charles C. Benton, SBSE (since 2000)

Annual tuition:
Public (semesters)
Undergrad:
  res: $4,200 / non-res: $15,702
Grad:
  res: $4,430.90 / non-res: $15,752.90

Specialization:
Computer-aided design
Energy
Environment/sustainability
History
Construction technology
Theory/criticism
Urban planning and design

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Undergrad federal: 49.6%
Undergrad university: 40%
Undergrad departmental: 3.4%
Grad federal: 49.6%
Grad university: 40%
Grad departmental: 21%

Degree Type and % Accepted:
B.A./B.S. preprof 41%
M.Arch. (preprof + 2 years) 17%
M.Arch. (undergrad + 3+ years) 26%
M.Arch. nonprof/postprof 7.5%
Ph.D 26%
MS Architecture 33%

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
5 yrs. / 2003

Related Degree Programs:
Landscape architecture (B, M, PhD)
Planning (M, PhD)
Urban design (M)

Innovations:
Berkeley's architecture department treasures its reputation as a lively academic community fostering diverse schools of thought. The considerable flexibility of the degree programs and the wide spectrum of faculty research interests bear testament to this tradition. Our faculty members are engaged in robust and long-standing research projects and instruction that spans the undergraduate, professional and research-Based programs.

Wurster Hall, the home of the College of Environmental Design, designed by faculty members Joseph Esherick, Vernon DeMars and Donald Olsen in 1964, has undergone recent upgrades and renovations resulting in new classrooms, expanded studio space, and a redesigned library facility. A 2,800-square-foot wood, metal and plastic shop maintained by professional mechanicians is available to students for construction of class-related and personal projects. Other resources include building science laboratories, an extensive collection of slides and other visual aids, and an archive of primary source material for scholarly research in environmental design.

Department publications include Process, the annual student design review; Concrete, the collection of student writing on environmental design; Analogue, the graduate thesis summary, and refereed journals Places and Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review.

Graduate students have opportunities for teaching under master teachers in all areas of undergraduate curriculum. Berkeley's broad commitment to teaching opportunities for graduate students provides the further advantage of small discussion sections within large lecture courses.

Notes:
– Federal and university financial figures include both undergrad and grad

– Landscape and Planning degrees are offered in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Department of City and Regional Planning, respectively ("sister" departments in College of Environmental Design). The Master of Urban Design is an interdisciplinary program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning.

California at Los Angeles, University of    [back]
Department of Architecture & Urban Design
Los Angeles, Calif.
www.aud.ucla.edu
Dean: Sylvia Lavin (since 1996)

Annual tuition:
Public (quarters)
Grad:
  res: $4,500 /  non-res: $11,200

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Grad federal: 70%
Grad university: 70%
Grad departmental: 10%

Degree Type and % Accepted:
M.Arch. (undergrad + 3+ years) Not avail.
M.Arch. nonprof/postprof Not avail.
Ph.D Not avail.
MS/MA Not avail.

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
3 yrs. / 2004

Related Degree Programs:
Urban design (M)
Other: Architectural Technology (PhD)
Other: Critical Studies in Architectural Culture (PhD)

California College of Arts & Crafts   [back]
Architecture Department
San Francisco, Calif.
www.ccac–art.edu

Annual tuition:
Private (semesters)
Undergrad: $21,670

Specialization:
Computer-aided design
Community design
Energy
Environment/sustainability
History
Interior design architecture
Construction technology
Theory/Criticism
Urban planning and design

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Undergrad federal: 26%
Undergrad university: 43%

Degree Type and % Accepted:
B.Arch. 61%

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
5 yrs. / 2004

Related Degree Programs:
Industrial design (B)
Interior design architecture (B)
Other: Graphic design (B)
Other: Fashion design (B)
Other: Illustration (B)
Other: Furniture design (B)
Other: Fine arts (B)

Innovations:
Facility named Top Ten Green Buildings in 2001
Joint degree program with University of San Francisco (USF)
Large number of women faculty and students
All students placed in internships
Best Bay Area practitioners on the faculty
Outstanding history and theory sequence

Notes:
"Federal" aid means "governmental" (state level, e.g.) aid.

California Polytechnic State University   [back]
Architecture Department
San Luis Osbsipo, Calif.
www.calpoly.edu/~arch
Director: Alan R. Cooper, AIA (since 2002)

Annual tuition:
Public (quarters)
Undergrad:
  res: $2,781 /  non-res: $2,781 + $188/unit
Grad:
  res: $2,859 / non-res: $2,859 + $188/unit

Specialization:
Computer-aided design
Community design
Environment/sustainability
Interior design architecture
Urban planning and design

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Not avail.

Degree Type and % Accepted:
B.Arch. 10%
Other: MS Computer-aided Design
Other: MS (multiple options)

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
5 yrs. / 2003

Related Degree Programs:
Architectural engineering (B)
Construction science/management (B)
Landscape architecture (B)
Planning (B, M)

Innovations:
– Hands-on learning approach
– Lab intensive
– Integrating practice and building science courses with design studios at all levels
– Integrating computer graphics with traditional drawing skills in first year
– Minors available in: Construction Management, Environmental Design, Sustainable Environments and Real Estate Development
– Joint B.Arch. and MB.A. or MCRP with only one additional year of study

Notes:
Specializations available for additional fifth year of study (thesis/senior project)

California, University of Southern
School of Architecture
Los Angeles, Calif.
www.usc.edu/dept/architecture
Dean: Robert Timme, FAIA   

Annual tuition:
Private (semesters)
Undergrad: $26,494
Grad: $26,49

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Undergrad federal: Not avail.
Undergrad university: Not avail.
Undergrad departmental: 15%
Grad federal: Not avail.
Grad university: Not avail.
Grad departmental: 80%

Degree Type and % Accepted:
B.Arch. 40%
M.Arch. (preprof + 2 years) 72%
M.Arch. nonprof/postprof 62%
Other: Master of Building Science 71%

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
6 yrs / 2007 (B.Arch.)

Related Degree Programs:
Landscape architecture (M)
Preservation (M)
Other: Master of Building Science

California State Polytechnic University    [back]
Department of Architecture
Pomona, Calif.
www.csupomona.edu/~arc
Dean: Linda Sanders (since 1997)

Annual tuition:
Public (quarters)
Undergrad:
  res: $1,428
Grad:
  res: $1,506 / non-res: $164/unit

Specialization:
Computer-aided design
Community design
Energy
Environment/sustainability
History
Preservation
Construction technology
Theory/criticism
Urban planning and design

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Undergrad federal: 65%
Undergrad university: 36.27%
Grad federal: 40.72%
Grad university: 32.27%

Degree Type and % Accepted:
B.Arch. 15%
M.Arch. (preprof + 2 years) 50%
M.Arch. (undergrad + 3+ years) 50%

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
Not avail.

Innovations:
The Center for Regenerative Studies, which is an entire facility devoted to the study of Environmental and Regenerative Systems.

Carnegie Mellon    [back]
School of Architecture
Pittsburgh, Pa.
www.arc.cmu.edu
Dean: Vivian Loftness, FAIA (since 1995)

Annual tuition:
Private (semesters)
Undergrad: $13,445
Grad: 13,190

Specialization:
Computer-aided design
Community design
Energy
Environment/sustainability
History
Construction technology
Urban planning and design

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Undergrad federal: 57%
Undergrad university: 63%
Undergrad departmental: 5%

Degree Type and % Accepted:
B.Arch. 60%
MS Computational Design 72%
MS Building Performance & Diagnostics 83%

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
5 yrs. / 2005

Related Degree Programs:
Architectural engineering (M)
Construction science/management (M)
Planning (M)
Urban design
Other: Computational Design (M)
Other: Building Performance & Diagnostics (M)
Other: Sustainable Design (M)

Innovations:
Click here to see indepth information.

Notes:
School of Architecture offers M.S. degrees, not M.Arch. degrees.

The Catholic University   [back]
School of Architecture and Planning
Washington, D.C.
architecture.cua.edu
Dean: Gregory K. Hunt, FAIA (since 1996)

Annual tuition:
Private (semesters)
Undergrad & Grad: $21,000

Specialization:
Urban planning and design

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Undergrad federal: 71%
Undergrad university: 61%
Undergrad departmental: 2%
Grad federal: 2%
Grad university: 6%
Grad departmental: 25%

Degree Type and % Accepted:
BA/BS preprof 72%
M.Arch. (preprof + 1 year) 71%
M.Arch. (preprof + 2 years) 13%
M.Arch. (undergrad + 3+ years) 63%
Other: M.Arch. Studies (postprof) 50%

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
5 yrs. / 2003

Related Degree Programs:
Other: B.S. Arch and BCE dual degree with School of Engineering

Innovations:
Within our M.Arch. programs, we offer concentrations in the areas of urban design and urban conservation, each of which have required study- abroad components dealing with urban design, planning and conservation in foreign locales. Summer components for these concentrations involve actual sites in Eastern Europe and Cuba.

Themed studios are offered in the graduate school. These include architecture, cultural interventions, sacred space, as well as urban design and urban conservation.

An innovative ten-day summer design-build program has involved the design and construction of unique structures in British Columbia, California, Peru, Nepal and Ireland over the past seven years.

Cincinnati, University of   [back]
School of Architecture and Interior Design
College of Design, Architecture, Art, & Planning
Cincinnati, Ohio
www.said.uc.edu
Dean: Judith Smith Koroscik (since 2001)

Annual tuition:
Public (quarters)
Undergrad:
  res: $2,312 per quarter / non-res: $5,773 / quarter
Graduate:
  res: $2,698 per quarter /  non-res: $$5,773 / quarter

Specialization:
Design and technology
Historic preservation (interdisciplinary)
Interior design
Professional practice

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Undergraduate: university: 100%
Graduate: department: 10%

Degree Type and % Accepted:
B.S. Arch. 20%
M. Arch. 40% (including 65% of our own B.S. Arch. graduates)
M.S. Arch. 25%

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
6 yrs. / 2009

Related Degree Programs:
Interior Design

Innovations:
–Cooperative education: students alternate quarters in school with salaried practice experience.
– eCoop: In first graduate year, two professional practice seminars book-end 6 months of co-op internship, including case study research.
– Foreign and regional study programs.
– Practicum, an experimental design-build outreach clinic.

Notes:
In our cooperative education program, all students move back and forth between school and practice experiences. Because they do not pay tuition during their co-op quarters, the tuition they pay varies from 2 to 4 quarters per year, depending on where they are in the curriculum.

City College, CUNY   [back]
School of Architecture, Urban Design &
Landscape Architecture
New York City
www.ccny.cuny.edu/architecture/archprog/intropage.htm
Dean: George Ranalli (since 1999)

Annual tuition:
Public (semesters)
Undergrad:
  res: $1,600 / non-res: $3,400
Grad:
  res: $2,175 / non-res: $3,800

Specialization:
Urban planning and design

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Undergrad departmental: 7%

Degree Type and % Accepted:
B.A./B.S. preprof 25%
B.Arch. 70%

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
5 yrs. / 2005

Related Degree Programs:
Landscape architecture
Urban design

Clemson University   [back]
School of Architecture
Clemson, S.C.
www.clemson.edu/caah/
Dean: Janice Schach (since 2000)

Annual tuition:
Public (semesters)
Undergrad:
  res: $2,917 / non-res: $6,466
Grad:
  res: $3,042 / non-res: $6,466

Specialization:
Urban planning and design

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Undergrad federal: Not avail.
Undergrad university: Not avail.
Undergrad departmental: Not avail.
Grad federal: Not avail.
Grad university: Not avail.
Grad departmental: 90%

Degree Type and % Accepted:
B.A. preprof 43%
M.Arch. (preprof + 2 years) 70%
MS Architecture 75%

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
5 yrs. / 2007-08

Related Degree Programs:
Construction science/management
Landscape architecture
Planning

Innovations:
– Undergraduate B.A. in Architecture requires a minor in a related area of study.
– Most students participate in off-campus programs (undergraduate and graduate).
– Three centers for semester-long study in Genoa, Italy, Barcelona, Spain, and Charleston, SC.
– All participants in the Charleston and Genoa programs receive grants, assistantships and fellowships of up to $7,000 plus tuition remission for graduate students.

Notes:
"Nonwhite" faculty demographics include international faculty members

Colorado at Denver, University of   [back]
Department of Architecture
Denver
www.cudenver.edu/AandP/
Dean: Patricia O'leary, AIA (since 1995)

Annual tuition:
Public (semesters)
Undergrad:
  res: $2,614 / non-res: $16,624
Grad:
  res: $3,500 / non-res: $14,240

Specialization:
Preservation
Urban planning and design
Other: Design-Build

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Not avail.

Degree Type and % Accepted:
B.A./B.S. preprof 75%
M.Arch. (preprof + 2 years) 84%
M.Arch. (undergrad + 3+ years) 84%
M.Arch. nonprof/postprof Not avail.
Ph.D Not avail.

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
5 yrs. / 2003

Related Degree Programs:
Landscape architecture
Planning
Preservation
Other: Design-Build

Innovations:
Our department is, to our knowledge, the only NAAB-approved program that occurs on two sites and maintains full facilities and resources on both sites (labs, libraries, etc.). Undergraduate programs occur at Boulder; graduate programs occur at Denver.

Notes:
– No differentiation between two listed M.Arch. professional degrees
– Ph.D program annually enrolls 7 new students; total number of Ph.D students is 29

The Cooper Union   [back]
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union
New York City
www.cooper.edu/architecture
Dean: Anthony Vidler, Acting Dean (since 2001)

Annual tuition:
Private (semesters)
Undergrad: $25,000 – each registered student receives a full-tuition scholarship

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Undergrad federal: 32%
Undergrad university: 100%

Degree Type and % Accepted:
B. Arch 7%

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
5 yrs. / 2002

Innovations:
The School of Architecture establishes an exciting and demanding environment for learning in architecture, Based on its long tradition of creative exploration in design and thinking. The stimulating interaction between studios, seminar and lecture courses, and the material practices of shop fabrication and computer simulation, encourages personal and public growth, and the development of a mastery of form and technique joined to a sense of the boundless limits of architectural creation. The place of the School in the Cooper Union, and its relation to the School of Art, the School of Engineering, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences fosters a unique interdisciplinary context for the mastery of different arts and sciences that contribute to an architect's knowledge, expertise, and sense of public responsibility. In fostering a context of intellectual rigor, in breadth and in depth, the program gives emphasis to a broad spectrum of cultural concerns, which are of significance in understanding the need for and place of architecture in the contemporary context.

Notes:
Statistics are for 2001-2002 academic year.

Cornell University    [back]
Department of Architecture
Ithaca, N.Y.
www.architecture.cornell.edu
Deans: Porus Olpadwala (since 1999)

Annual tuition:
Private (semesters)
Undergrad & Grad: $27,270

Specialization:
Computer-aided design
History
Construction technology
Urban planning and design

% Scholarship Support 2002-03:
Undergrad: 65%

Degree Type and % Accepted:
B.Arch. 23%
M.Arch. nonprof/postprof Not avail.

Accreditation Term & Next NAAB Visit:
6 yrs. / 2007

Related Degree Programs:
Interior design architecture (B, M)
Landscape architecture (B, M)
Planning (B, M, PhD)
Preservation (M, PhD)
Urban Design (M)
Other: History of Architecture & Urbanism (M, PhD)

Notes:
Other degrees (excepting Urban Design) are offered, but not in department