Any opinions on the BAC?

soozievt
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:18:54 +0000

My D did the Syracuse program in Florence and she attends Brown University. At Brown, as well as at many colleges, they have not only their own study abroad programs but they also have a list of approved programs their students can attend through other colleges. For instance, the Syracuse and Columbia programs are on a list of approved programs for Brown’s students.

Many of these abroad programs DO take students from other universities. In the case of Syracuse’s program in Florence, students came from many other colleges! The fact that the Columbia-Paris program is listed as an approved program at my D’s college, implies that it is a program that takes students from any college. You do have to apply to these programs, of course.

However, I am not sure when you ask if architecture students can apply to programs if not attending that school, if you mean BA arch students or BArch students. Earlier, I was referring to BA arch majors, not BArch ones. You would have to check if BArch students could go to another school’s abroad program. For instance, in the Syracuse program in Florence, there is a Pre-Arch program (that is for BA students) and their BArch/MArch program. In the former, students were not from Syracuse. In the latter, it was pretty much all Syracuse BArch and MArch students. However, one of my D’s roommates while there was a BArch student from ANOTHER university and so I guess that was possible even though the bulk of the BArch/MArch students were from the program’s own university.

So, I know for sure that a BA student can do many of these programs if from another college (as long as their own college approves), and am not positive on the BArch/MArch students. Perhaps they only attend their own school’s abroad program or perhaps going to another one is allowed but I am not sure and you’d have to ask at each program. I don’t know if you are a BA or BArch student. The Syracuse and Columbia programs offer an abroad program for BA students and that is what I and so-ein-quatsch were discussing. Syracuse also offers an abroad program for its BArch and MArch students. Those students mix in some classes with the BA students but not in the studio classes.

I hope this helps.