unless your undergrad degree is an accredited "Professional" degree I would recommend doing your Masters in Architecture. My situation was my undergrad was a pre-professional Architecture degree (and really this is all a game in my honest opinion to suck another 2 years out of mommy and daddy's pocket book, or to bury you in further debt). I thought my Bachelor degree was all I needed. Then I came to realize that my undergrad degree is as worthless as the paper on my tp holder. So a masters degree in architecture was required in my case to receive a "Professional" degree. If I'd do it all over again... Id do my undergrad in something else worth while... but i was young, stupid, and didnt know any better...

No my Bachelor's degree was a five-year accredited degree. I don't have to worry about it.

I think its going to depend on what you want to do. If you are just going to practice, then its probably not worth the added debt. If you are wanting to teach at some point, then its probably a good idea to get it.

From anecdotal evidence that I have heard the whole Bachelors/Masters thing doesn't really change your salary unlike in other professions (I could be entirely wrong...this is just from two friends of mine in the same city, same amount of experience, both make roughly equal salaries.)

What are you expecting from an MArch that you think a BArch can't do for you?

Don't waste your time getting a MArch unless you want to teach. You'd be paying for the same degree twice. Some schools like KU have completely renamed their BArchs to MArchs without any change to the cirriculum - same thing.

Superfluous, and expensive.

Lots of people go on from the BArch to happy lives and productive careers, despite all the discussion here about the ins and outs, ups and downs of graduate school.

Now, if you want to explore the field further (with an MArch) or broaden your intellectual reach somewhat (masters in planning, urban design, landscape architecture, real estate, business, etc), go for it, by all means.

But to get a masters just for the sake of it? Unless you're already wealthy, go to work, learn practice, and see how you feel in five years.

Good luck!

P.S. Of course, "go to work" is easy to say but hard to accomplish in these economic times, I realize.