Graduate / Master to become an Architect?

laure327
Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:25:18 +0000

I’ve always thought that it was required/expected for the arch students to take a graduate program in order to become architects.

However, having other posts on CC, it looks like it’s either 5yr professional program vs. 4 yr pre-prof and 2 yr master.

Do firms prefer with architects with undergrad and grad education? Is it better to have grad program when taking the exams?

Again, I’ve always thought that it was 5+2 vs. 4+3 but now that I’ve found out, I no longer want to spend more money for another 2 years because the undergrad program at Carnegie Mellon is already expensive enough ($50k x 5).

I’ll be waiting for replies. Thank you in advance.