Master of Architecture (STEM)

Program Description

As part of the Architecture graduate programs at UMass Amherst, you will engage with issues of design for environmentally, socially and economically sustainable communities. You’ll undertake design challenges to study specific community-based ecological, political, and urban issues. You’ll be part of a learning environment in which all students can discover and develop their own design process and professional potential. The Master of Architecture degree is the first accredited architecture degree at a public institution in New England.

The course of study consists of three main components: core requirements, areas of knowledge exploration, and a culminating Master's Thesis. Course offerings are organized around an interdisciplinary curriculum involving faculty and students from architecture, studio art, art history, public history, landscape architecture and regional planning, building construction and wood technology, environmental engineering, environmental sciences, computer science, and management. Students may also take classes through the Five College consortium, including Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith colleges.

In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes three types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architecture, and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted a 6-year, 3-year, or 2-year term of accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards. Doctor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degree programs may consist of a pre-professional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree that, when earned sequentially, constitute an accredited professional education. However, the pre-professional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.

Admission Requirements

  • A GPA of 3.0 required in undergraduate degree
  • GRE not required 
  • Portfolio and/or documentation of previous creative work and/or research. A portfolio of creative work should include no more than twenty pages of art, architecture, and/or design work. 

IELTS Requirements

Listening Reading Writing Speaking Overall
6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5

Remarks:

  • Total 30 Credits program(Yearly tuition fee is given)
  • I20(Visa Letter) can be obtained only after submitting a bank statement with a balance of USD $50,305

Course Features
  • Country United States of America
  • City Amherst
  • State Massachusetts
  • Course Duration 2 Year
  • Application fee 85 USD
  • Tuition fees yearly 37,405 USD
  • Cost of Living per year 13,000 USD
  • Starting dates Fall
  • IELTS (Total) 6.5
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