Architectural Engineering vs. Architecture (Courses/Salary)

newjersey17
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:44:16 +0000

Hi Rick-

My daughter has decided she would like to become a licensed Architect and she is currently a senior in High School. She has taken the summer Architecture discovery program at University of Notre Dame and she loved it. She would really like to attend a school in Texas and ultimately live in Texas. She has been accepted to: Tulane, SMU and Southwestern University. She has been offered nice scholarships from all three.

Right now her favorite option is Southwestern University + UT Austin MArch (as a possibility). This will probably take 7 years (she will test out of 8+ AP classes). Southwestern offers a minor in Architecture and Design.

Is this a good option to chose SU+UT Austin (MArch) over a BArch at Tulane or even ND (if she gets accepted)?

Background on Southwestern per their website:
“To date the program has a 100% acceptance rate of getting students admitted to design graduate schools in fields of architecture, interior design, industrial design, landscape architecture, construction contracting, engineering and urban planning, and students have gone to graduate schools at Harvard, Yale, U.T. Austin, Clemson, UCLA, Univ. Houston, Univ. of Arizona, U.T. Arlington and Washington Univ., St. Louis. Many graduates have found themselves design project leaders at leading firms within ten years of leaving SU.”