<p>Just curious. Is your D doing a BA in Architecture and if so, what is the gender split in the program?</p>
<p>I've had a PM from a student who told me that the great majority of the BA Architecture students are female. Is that true?</p>
<p>No, but my son is. :) His architecture studies and studio art classes have been pretty much 50-50.</p>
<p>Actually are you asking about a B.Arch program? My son is not doing that, just a liberal arts B.A.</p>
<p>Yes, I am asking specifically about the BA with a major in Architecture.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply.</p>
<p>Not exactly your question, but when I was in a B.Arch program, it was about 60% females, at a school where the student population is 60-70% male. We found that interesting, considering it's supposed to be a male-dominated profession...we figured it would have at least matched the rest of the school.</p>
<p>Cheers, as you know, my D is doing a BA in architecture. I'll try to ask her this question sometime. I happen to know another girl from our high school who transferred into my D's college (Brown) and is ALSO studying architecture. That's two so far :D. This past fall, when my D studied in an arch program in Florence through Syracuse, every person in her program (considered pre-architecture as opposed to the BArch and MArch programs also there with her) was female!</p>
<p>I'd also love to know what percentage of the MArch I programs are female. Thanks for posting your single data points. Very interesting. I never put these thoughts together prior to my time on CC.</p>
<p>I'd be curious to know too. When I was at Columbia in the early 80s for the M.Arch program it was about 40% female. Didn't see any numbers on their current website - which BTW is awful - incredibly slow and opaque.</p>
<p>This is completely impressionistic: Among my children's friends all of the people who are doing Architecture are female (not a large absolute number though: 3). My sense is that they are the type of kid who might think about engineering if such kid were a boy, but the girls don't feel at home in engineering programs, and do feel at home in architecture where there are more girls, more emphasis on cooperation over competition, and more visual art emphasis, too.</p>
<p>Just musing here. Step grand-S started out in Engineering, with being an engineer as his plan. He now wants to be an architect, but he is staying in structural/civil engineering for his BS. Hope he's doing the right thing ;) (no idea). Could it be that males interested in architecture are going this route, or is he an odd duck?</p>
<p>No idea. But twenty years ago we had no engineer undergrads in the M. Arch program at Columbia. I'd say about half the class had BAs with architecture majors, the other half came from all sorts of disciplines. The thing is I think in most states either engineers or architects can stamp drawings, so technically he could submit drawings without the design courses. My musing is that M Arch programs might be more likely to have women while B Archs might be more male heavy, but no data to support that. Have to admit I'm curious!</p>
<p>Albeit dated from Dec 2004, this may help:</p>
<p>Much work needs to be done, but considerable progress has been made the past 20-30 years. I can recall the days when you could count the number of women architecture students at most schools on one hand. *Currently, 54% of our B.Arch. students and 47% of our M.Arch. students are women. * Other leading schools of architecture, including some Ivy League universities that once excluded women altogether, now have parity in student and faculty numbers.</p>
<p>Source: UTSOA and <a href="http://web.austin.utexas.edu/architecture/enews/archive/2004-12-16/%5B/url%5D">http://web.austin.utexas.edu/architecture/enews/archive/2004-12-16/</a></p>
<p>My son (a freshman) says it is about 50-50, but if anything there would probably be slightly more women than men in the program. There are several sections for 1st year classes so it is hard to tell who is in other sections. The big cutoff comes after this year, so hopefully his grades will be good enough to allow him to continue in the program. Many freshman classes are not very exciting, but he really enjoys his architecture classes.</p>
<p>He has no idea about M.Arch numbers at this point.</p>
<p>I work for an architectural firm. We are currently at numerous college job fairs in search of talented BArch & MArch students for paid internships and f/t work. I have definitely seen more resumes from women than men. In our firm (350 in 4 cities) we are nearly 50/50 split.</p>
<p>May I also say, the presentation materials from the women have been superior to the men. We have all noticed it, and commented on it.</p>