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Grad School Without Breaking the Bank
Hey Everyone,
So I am looking into graduate school to pursue a M.Arch for this upcoming Fall 2012 semester. Of course I would like to apply (and attend) fantasy schools such as Berkeley, GSAPP, Pratt, UPenn, etc however I am trying to spend as little money as possible. I am over my head with student loans from my out-of-state Undergrad already.
My current boss explains that in the working world, employers are more concerned with your work experience than where you got a masters degree from. The important thing is to obtain a professional degree but not necessarily go to the highest ranked school.
Is this the truth? If so does anybody know M.Arch programs that are cheaper than the average?
Thanks.
Not sure how impartial/true an answer you'd get, but have you tried contacting each M.Arch program's career service and/or alumni point person? Ask them for figures on recent grad employment. I feel like if Planetizen and APA have these stats for MCP/MUP programs, you must be able to get some answer out of M.Arch programs. I guess another way of going about this is to go through the archinects employed by some of the firms you're interested in and see which school they went to. Use linkedin to see if they were recent hires, etc.
or look at area of the country which you would like to live in. For example if you'd like to live in LA, than Morgan State or University of Maryland are prob not great choices
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