Miami University

Course Details

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture

Course Description

What is Architecture? Architecture is the design of the built environment: buildings, groups of buildings, communities, and their surroundings. As a profession, it is an art, science, and business with careers available in private firms, government, theater and film, industrial corporations, public and private institutions, schools of architecture, and in architectural research. This is a four-year pre-professional program that prepares you for the two-year Master of Architecture program (accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board) offered at Miami. Miami has established this "four-plus-two" system to ensure that undergraduate students gain much more than a strictly technical or vocational education. Instead, you will graduate with a well-rounded liberal arts education plus research skills and design training that make you competitive and marketable to graduate schools as well as in professional practice. About 80 percent of our graduating seniors go on to master's programs at Miami or other universities.

Course Duration

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4year

Career outcomes

What can I do with this major? With training in architecture, you are prepared to work in many fields. In addition to careers with private architectural firms, students can pursue jobs in commercial, industrial, and retail design; facilities management; real estate and development; engineering; sales and manufacturing; and museum and gallery management, design, and installation. You can also become a historian, theorist, or critic.




Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Miami University