About This Program
Seeking career expertise in the built environment? Our research degree (STEM accredited) can help you forge a powerful career in architecture and the environmental design fields by combining design and science. Working closely with national leading faculty, students immerse themselves in cutting-edge topics such as A.I., robotics, bioclimatics, living architecture, kinetics or other subjects. Join us in making new knowledge, discoveries and innovations. Read more...
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Program Delivery
Examples of Possible Careers and Salaries*
Architectural and engineering managers
- 2.6% slower than the average
- 198,100 number of jobs
- $149,530 potential earnings
Architecture teachers, postsecondary
- 5.1% faster than the average
- 8,500 number of jobs
- $90,880 potential earnings
Calibration technologists and technicians and engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters, all other
- 2.1% slower than the average
- 91,600 number of jobs
- $64,190 potential earnings
* Source of occupation titles and labor data comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook. Data comprises projected percent change in employment over the next 10 years; nation-wide employment numbers; and the yearly median wage at which half of the workers in the occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less.
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Admission Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a professional or pre-professional environmental design program1
- Minimum 3.000 undergraduate GPA2 on a 4.000 point scale
- Official transcript(s)
- GRE scores
- Résumé
- Goal statement (two pages) that includes an outline of a proposed study program
- Portfolio for design and research work
- Three letters of recommendation
- English language proficiency - all international students must provide proof of English language proficiency (unless they meet specific exceptions) by earning one of the following:
- Minimum 550 TOEFL PBT score
- Minimum 79 TOEFL IBT score
- Minimum 77 MELAB score
- Minimum 6.5 IELTS score
- Minimum 58 PTE score
- Minimum 110 Duolingo score
Application Deadlines
- Fall Semester
- Application deadline: February 1
Applications submitted after this deadline will be considered on a space-available basis.
Program Learning Outcomes
Graduates of this program will be able to:
- Investigate new relationships within the built environment
- Gather, collect and analyze data
- Co-author of technical and scientific reports, summaries, papers, abstracts, briefs and/or the development of products and technologies that may lead to patents and intellectual property
Roadmap
This roadmap is a recommended semester-by-semester plan of study for this major. However, courses designated as critical (!) must be completed in the semester listed to ensure a timely graduation.
Plan of Study Grid Semester One |
AED 60922 | METHODS OF INQUIRY IN ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES | 2 |
AED 60923 | EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN | 1 |
AED 66098 | TOPICAL IMMERSION | 3 |
ARCH 60301 | THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE | 3 |
| Credit Hours | 9 |
Semester Two |
AED 60930 | APPLIED RESEARCH METHODS IN ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN | 3 |
AED 66198 | ADVANCED PROPOSAL WRITING | 2 |
Elective (50000 or 60000 level) | 3 |
| Credit Hours | 8 |
Semester Three |
AED 66199 | THESIS I | 3 |
Electives (50000 or 60000 level) | 6 |
| Credit Hours | 9 |
Semester Four |
AED 66199 | THESIS I | 3 |
Electives (50000 or 60000 level) | 6 |
| Credit Hours | 9 |
| Minimum Total Credit Hours: | 35 |
Full Description
The Master of Science degree in Architecture and Environmental Design is a research-intensive program with one-year full residency requirement. The program is best suited for individuals interested in pursuing a specialization in the built environment.
The program may be taken as a dual degree with the Master of Architecture degree.