Somebody please explain something to me

College Majors Architecture Major
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I’m a junior in High School and the time to apply to colleges will come up very soon. I know i have a plan as far as what I want to do in College. I plan on receiving my bachelors degree in architecture, my master’s in civil engineering, and my PhD in Business Management. I need someone to explain to me how many years of school i’m looking at if i go through with this all the way. I’m sure that if architecture and civil engineering both require a physics class for example, then I only need take that class once and it satisfies the requirement for both. But business management is a different field in its own. I plan on applying to several colleges and here is another question. If i receive my bachelors in one college and desire to pursue my masters but the college i am currently attending does not have the program, then can I take all the credits ive earned towards that major and transfer them to another school? Like let’s say that I finish my bachelors degree for architecture in Yale and want to pursue a master’s degree in architecture but they don’t have it. Can I take all the credits i’ve earned at yale towards my master’s and transfer them to say Columbia University? (This is all an imaginative scenario of course). I would really appreciate some insight guys because i know very little about college. Thank you very much in advance.

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A couple problems with the above scenario:

  • to get a master's in Civil Engineering, one generally needs an undergraduate CE or related degree. The number of prerequisites could be very lengthy due to classes in engineering you don't see in architecture (Calc, Diff Eq, heavy duty physics, chem, and those are before any CE courses). There is also Architectural Engineering but it's the same situation.
  • a PhD in Business is generally a teaching degree. You'll have to do prerequisites galore to get there, and even then, it doesn't buy you much.
  • Most schools that offer a 4 year degree in architecture offer a master's degree... There are some that offer a 4 year architecture studies type programs. You can go to a different school in either case for a graduate degree.

Find out what you want to do in life first. I sort of tried the approach you described, and ended up with 4 college degrees, and it took 14 years :slight_smile: