Does anyone have a complete list of all the schools that offer a 5 year MArch (Masters of Architecture) program? I know Cal Poly SLO and Pomono do.
Cal Poly Pomona offers a 5.0 year Bachelors of Architecture, not a 5.0 year undergraduate Master of Architecture. They also offer a graduate MArch degree, which I believe requires 2.0 to 3.0 years on top of an undergraduate degree, but their website wasn’t too clear to me. It’s a very small program.
Cal Poly SLO also offers a 5.0 year BArch as well as a pre-professional BA and BS in architecture. Their graduate degree is the MS Arch (Master of Science of Architecture).
On the undergraduate page of their website they say, the MS Arch “is accepted in lieu of a five-year bachelor degree for licensure.” but on their graduate page they say “The MS ARCH Degree is not a professional degree in architecture.” Someone else will have to explain that.
As far as I know the only schools that offer the 5.0 year undergraduate MArch are the University of Kansas and Kansas State. The 5.0 year BArch is offered by about 45 schools, including both Cal Polys.
It’s probably because Cal Polys Masters program isn’t accredited however their 5 year BArch is. Wonder why? Maybe it’s because it’s too small like you said?
The MS Arch is mostly a research / post M,Arch type degree, so it’s not “accredited” in the sense that you can’t get this degree plus a 4 year pre-professional BS or BA Arch and be licensed.
5 year B.Arch or M.Arch programs are a lot more intensive than one thinks. Depending on where you go to school, so are the 2 years of your M.Arch (in a 4+2 program). Just for fun, I looked at the plans of study of Cal Poly SLO and UT Austin a while back, and without a time machine those programs are a bit too intensive:). Add to that the fact that (at least SLO) is quarters, and you’re in for an intense time.
Regardless, it’s not like 4+2 schools are a walk in the park either. There’s some time involved in filling out grad school applications, portfolios, rec letters…
In addition to both Kansas schools, Drury University (Missouri) also has a 5 year straight M.Arch and Tulane used to have one but they changed it back to B.Arch or something like that. Depending on how you count it, SCAD may be 5 years M.Arch or it was back then.There’s a few other schools I looked at and some are 5 year M.Arch (North Dakota State U). Go thru the NAAB web site and you can ferret them out 
@newjersey17, I understand that Cal Poly’s MS Arch is not accredited in the same way that an MArch would be, and that (as they says on their graduate webpage) it “is not a professional degree in architecture.” What I don’t understand is what they say on their undergraduate page: that the MS Arch “is accepted in lieu of a five-year bachelor degree for licensure.” Is it?
@turbo93, I think the BArch or MArch is intensive however you cut and slice it. Add to that the 3.0+ years spent in in the licensure process, and the dollars earned to hours invested ratio is shockingly low.