Arch schools in Canada

listroider
Wed, 09 Sep 2015 04:21:01 +0000

I am a little confused about one thing. A US arch admissions rep told me that Waterloo’s BAS might be “not accredited” after looking at some book of arch schools that included US and Canada. But I thought only B.Arch and M.Arch degrees are ever accredited in this context?

Another thing I noticed about the Canadian schools is that some (Waterloo, McGill but not Toronto or UBC) put architecture in the Faculty of Engineering which is almost unheard of in the US. At Waterloo this seems insignificant (the Arch school is on a separate campus anyway and you jump right in to architecture and design studio your first year) while at McGill for US high school students the first year is almost all math and science and no design studios. This is one of several things that deter me from McGill. And I eliminated UBC because you are not admitted directly into the program there. So Waterloo is my one Canadian school for now.