Learn architecture and design buildings, rooms, or complexes. Provide architectural services to individuals, government agencies, and businesses. Earn your degree and purse your architecture license by attending architecture schools. Many states require the licensing of architects in addition to the proper education.

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What Are Architecture Schools?

Architecture schools provide the necessary training and education to properly develop plans. Many plans include drawings of the structural system of the project. Plans may also include building materials and interior furnishings. Architecture schools typically offer a five-year bachelor's degree program or a master's degree program that can take from one to five years depending on your background.

What Can You Learn From Architecture Schools?

You can learn communication skills, designing, engineering, managing, and supervising at architecture schools. When designing plans, you must be familiar with building codes, fire regulations, and zoning laws. Completing the necessary training at architecture school enables you to become familiar with these general requirements.

Architecture Career Outlook

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that approximately 141,200 workers were employed as architects in 2008. A small percentage of those workers worked in government agencies and also residential building construction firms. An average of 21 percent of architects were self-employed. The projected increase through 2018 is 164,200 architectural workers. The median annual salary of architects was $70,320 in May of 2008.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also reports that landscape architects held approximately 26,700 jobs in 2008. A slight increase of 32,000 landscape architects is projected through the year 2018. The professionals earned a median annual wage $58,960, the BLS reports.

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Architects, Except Landscape and Naval • http://bls.gov • http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos038.htm • Bureau of Labor Statistics

Landscape Architects • http://www.bls.gov • http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos039.htm • Bureau of Labor Statistics

Schools are listed in alphabetical order by state then city.
Canadian schools are listed at the bottom.

NewSchool of Architecture and Design

[San Diego, CA]

Change the way the world looks with a degree from NewSchool of Architecture & Design, located in San Diego, California. NewSchool has become one of the most innovative architectural schools in the country. NewSchool strives to meet the ever-changing demands of the architecture profession by providing an instructional program that nurtures a student's artistic passion into professional excellence. NewSchool is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), and grants Bachelor's and Master's degrees. Learn more today.
Programs:
  Bachelor of Architecture
  Bachelor of Arts in Digital Media Arts
  Bachelor of Arts, Architecture
  Master of Architecture
  Master of Architecture, First Professional Degree
  Master of Architecture, Second Architectural Degree
  Master of Landscape Architecture
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Capella University	[Minneapolis, MN]
Programs: BS - Software Architecture MS - Enterprise Software Architecture MS - Network Architecture Request More Information >