who is better an architect or a civil engineer?

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<p>I post this question because I want to help my friend to choose course., for you what course will be better? My friend likes both designing and building something.. I need some advices.. hope you can help me. :)</p>

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<p>Talk to some recent graduates of architecture school to find out what the prospects are like. I don’t think they will encourage a person to start architecture school.</p>

<p>A civil engineering degree will give you much more flexibility in the job market. However, with limiting funding for roads and other infrastructure projects and little new land development, the civil engineering market is still in a slump. Hopefully, it will be fully recovered by the time you graduate.</p>

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<p>A recent study…<a href=“http://www.archdaily.com/197351/study-shows-architecture-graduates-with-highest-unemployment-rate/[/url]”>http://www.archdaily.com/197351/study-shows-architecture-graduates-with-highest-unemployment-rate/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Architecture and structural engineering are very different professions. I majored in architectural engineering, which is the engineering of buildings (I didn’t have to study things like highway design). I had to take two architectural design classes, so I would understand what architects do. I was usually a straight A student, but I made a C one of those semesters! I could never be an architect. There is a lot more art to architecture. Engineers use more math.</p>

<p>My husband is also a structural engineer, and we run our own firm out of a home office. The good thing about engineering is that we have a wide range of clients, so we usually have work, a good bit of which doesn’t require an architect at all. The architects we know are really hurting right now, while the engineers are holding their own.</p>

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<p>^ ya
assuming civil engineer you talking about structural engineer/the part of civil engineer that works with architects, architecture = art and engineering = math
if your friend likes art, go archi, if math more, go engineer. from your description, it sounds like he would fit more into architecture.</p>