<p>My daughter has decided she would like to become a licensed Architect and she is currently a senior in High School. My daughter has taken the summer Architecture discovery program at University of Notre Dame and she loved it. She has applied to several schools and has heard back from two so far: Tulane and Southwestern University. She has been offered two big scholarships from both schools (over six digits), which is awesome. Forbes shows these two schools ranked, which combines the Liberal Arts and National Universities together, as 128 and 132 respectively which is interesting!</p>
<p>Right now her favorite option is Southwestern University + UT Austin MArch (as a possibility). This will probably take 7 years (she will test out of 8+ AP classes) or 3 1/2 UG + 3 1/2 Grad. Southwestern offers a minor in Architecture and Design. </p>
<p>Is this a good option to chose SU+UTA over Tulane or even ND (if she gets accepted). </p>
<p>She used to live in Texas and would like to live in Texas again. So naturally she would like to attend an Architecture school in Texas. My daughter felt that the SU+UTA would be stronger option than Tulane or ND because she would have a masters from UTA (ranked 10th per DI) versus a BArch. ND isn't even ranked as a graduate program in DI which was a surprise. </p>
<p>Thanks for your help! </p>
<p>Rick12 - I sent you a PM since I knew you were familiar with Texas! :)</p>
<p>Background on SU per their website:
"To date the program has a 100% acceptance rate of getting students admitted to design graduate schools in fields of architecture, interior design, industrial design, landscape architecture, construction contracting, engineering and urban planning, and students have gone to graduate schools at Harvard, Yale, U.T. Austin, Clemson, UCLA, Univ. Houston, Univ. of Arizona, U.T. Arlington and Washington Univ., St. Louis. Many graduates have found themselves design project leaders at leading firms within ten years of leaving SU.</p>
<p>Acquiring a liberal arts B.A. may add about one year to attaining a professional degree as opposed to entering directly into a B.Arch program, but liberal arts background has a record of endowing design professionals with greater depth and flexibility throughout their careers. Students major in some other field that can enhance a design career, including almost any of the humanities, business, science, mathematics or studio art. Most SU graduates apply for M.Arch first degree programs."</p>