You could easily find out the average age by searching. No, I'm not going to search for you.

You could have easily found out Berkeley's main focus by going to their open house and online Q&As BEFORE you applied.

We aren't going to do your homework for you bud. Much less your homework that is now LATE.

People in LA think the rest of the country besides NY is a bunch of cow farms. So if you get a degree in Washington prepare for endless questions of “is there much up there?, is their program any good? I’m really mostly familiar with SLO, did you guys design farms?”

What kind of pedagogues do you prefer? Those schools have very different methods/attitudes towards how and what they teach. (I am assuming you mean WASHU in St. Louis, not the state?). It will be easier to land that job if you are in the city as a student. Firms like Woods Bagots, for example, tend to only seek out local interviews for candidates in San Francisco. However, many students from WASHU have ended up in LA / NYC/ SF, so it's not the end all be all to go to those coastal Universities.

Honestly, if I were you, I would go for Berkeley. The prestige of the name has outlasted the other schools on your list. The school is bound to be more diverse student population, which means your education will be that much richer. Some schools have more homogeneous student / teacher populations as you get farther away from the coast. Was a bummer in my experience.

Berkeley undergrad alumni here (but I had most of the graduate professors since you can take the grad courses as an undergrad) and going into the USC 2nd year M.arch program most likely. I made an account for this thread so hopefully something is use.

I am from the Los Angeles area and I have friends who finished the WashU program.

All three are somewhat different from each other.

UC Berkeley is the most prestigious if you are looking to work out of the country. The professors for the studios really vary which gives it a range of style. Andrew Atwood’s is normally in charge of core and his style is very GSD formlike. The next few studios you get to pick who you would like. Some professors are more into urbanplacemaking and some are really into 3d printing. It does lack a lot of technical skills and you are expected to teach yourself for the most part. You get the opportunity to take the other graduate courses like urban design and landscape. There is some focus on sustainability but nothing too crazy. In terms of connections, most work in the Bay Area or abroad. If you are doing an internship, most likely with a professor. Also, there a high possibility you can TA (called GSI) if you need the funds. The program is on two floors.
Most of the professors have tenure for the graduate program.


USC program is better for connections if you are looking to work in Los Angeles. The program also lacks a style but they encourage students to do internships. Though I think the undergrad students are much stronger than my friends who did only M.Arch (other undergrad). Also note that Los Angeles as a city has way more competition since you have competing schools within miles of each other.

Washington is the most technical out of the three. The programs come out more commercial/corporate friendly. I know my friends don’t have trouble to find work afterward.

Also in terms of age, from the multiple campus visits I done over the years. UC berkeley March is around 23-28ish with the American citizens around 25-28 and international at 23-25.

USC is more 21-26. There is also a lot of morechinese internationals

I only been to Washington once it was roughly 25ish.

Honestly, I wouldn’t do any of those programs if your main concern is learning digital tools.