Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
Pratt Institute
University of Southern California (USC)
Tulane University
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Temple University
University of Oregon
Cranbrook Academy of Art
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
Kansas State University
bad economy, An influx of M.arch II applicants?
It seems like all these layoffs are sending lots of B. archs back for m. archs. What does this mean for graduate education - will programs be filled with top knotch students? Does anyone with graduate school experience have thoughts on our present situation, or a previous one where the realm of professional practice has in a way restructured academia? Seems like there would be more people with lots of work experience going back to school, how does this change studios?
More importantly what sets applicants apart as schools are swamped with applications. A killer portfolio of course, what about GPA, work experience at a good firm?
Something I've wondered about too. I'm sure pretty much every b.s. or b.a. arch is applying to a grad school immediatly. No working for a few years for this class.
I got my B.Arch in 07 and just finished my applications. I think that a studio with people with many years of work experience could be very diverse. However, I am curious how universities will choose between younger grads who might have greater/less obsolete computing skill and older grads with more working knowledge.
Good point Smarchitect. I'm a MarchII applicant. I have a B.arch and a MS + 7 years of experience, and I have been learning all the new software that wasn't available in my school days.
Im getting my marchdos at sci-arc and our class is a great mix of everyone from me ( only summer interships, but good ones at that) and friends of mine who have like 10 years hardcore work experience. And a large gradient there of. I can't speak for sci-arc's marchuno, bc im still in boot camp mode and have little knowledge of who they look for but i know from talking with admissions folks that they want forward thinking applicants. So it could be someone seasoned with no computer skill and someone fresh but skilled. Also, i know at sci-arc the application load this year has been insane. Hope this helps. My experience is to play your strong cards- if you are a really analog architect, be loud and proud with it, show your most elegent work. Don't show beat cad details if they don't pertain to your concept. and vice versa if you are a bad ass on the cpu and don't have the hand for analog work just leave it out. worked for me. hope this helps.
Some grad schools turn down those w/ too much work experience. they say that they are too entrenched in the real world and can't get back into architecture as fantasy.
I worry for the unemployed bread and butter architect interns who are looking to grad school for salvation.
It means that in a few years we will have a lot of over educated architects who think they deserve a higher rate of pay for the same work a B. Arch provides a firm.
Good luck to us all.
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