BS (Arch) - UMich vs UIUC vs Cincinnati vs WUSTL

momoftwins
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:57:40 +0000

karkri,

My daughter attended UIUC for her B.S. Arch. She is at UC for her M.Arch. We visited both UMich and WUSTL so I feel like our children were looking for many of the same things. Here’s my 2 cents:

1. UIUC is good enough - daughter received solid grounding - if you’re in Michigan and get into the program, you’d be better off - I’m not slamming UIUC, but was just very impressed with UMich and there is the issue of out-of-state tuition to consider - also good internship opportunities (not sure about this market though).

2. WUSTL seems to be doing everything right. They have brought in some very impressive faculty members. In addition the students appear to be very bright and highly motivated. We were extremely impressed with the program.

3. UC was everything she wanted - great academics and studios - opportunity (although limited) to take classes outside of architecture and within DAAP, co-ops to provide real world experience. She’s very happy with the faculty. In her current co-op assignment she worked on building a model for a firm’s participation in an international competition. They just found out that they won the competition. It’s invaluable to have the experience. On the negative side, administration is not as organized as she would like.