The Master of Architecture program provides students seeking their first accredited professional degree with a comprehensive and challenging education leading to the practice of architecture. Graduate students have the flexibility to choose a variety of paths within a two-to-three-year rigorous program, depending upon previous education and experience. The department makes no restriction as to the field of undergraduate preparation. However, the length of the required residence period, the number of required semester course units, and the specific list of required courses may vary depending upon undergraduate major, professional and other work experience, and previous graduate study, if any.

Additional prerequisites for admission to the professional Master of Architecture program are college-level or equivalent mathematics through analytical geometry and beginning calculus and beginning physics through mechanics.

Download the Master of Architecture Handbook for 2008-09 [pdf] 

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Program Options
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Fellowships, Awards, and Teaching Opportunities
Faculty
Alumni Profiles
Summer Program
Studio and Thesis Gallery

Berkeley’s overall excellence as a research institution is well known, and the graduate programs in architecture contribute to this stellar international reputation. Current areas of focus include an emerging position in the application of digital-design media, ongoing studios and seminars that embrace an international perspective, and a continued commitment to our emphasis on design and ecology. These three frameworks, together with our tradition of outstanding scholarship in architectural history and theory, offer new directions for architectural education that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. Our faculty are leaders in the fields of design, theory, and building technologies, and are joined each year by endowed professors who teach design studios related to their professional interests.

Please visit the links above for examples of recent design work, information on travel studios, a description of our program options, financial assistance opportunities, faculty and alumni profiles, and our new summer program.