How many foreign students receive undergraduate and graduate degrees
from American architecture programs each year? (two numbers preferred,
and source of information)

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Request for Question Clarification by claudietta-ga on 28 Oct 2002 18:39 PST

Dear Cowherd,

The US educational system does not award undergraduate degrees in
architecture, only graduate.  Will the latter number satisfy your
request?

Claudietta

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Clarification of Question by cowherd-ga on 28 Oct 2002 19:59 PST

Undergraduate degrees in acredited architecture programs include the
B.Arch. (five year professional degree), and the pre-professional four
year B.S. and B.A. degrees in architecture. The most common graduate
degrees are M.Arch. but there are many others, such as: Ph.D., D.Des.,
S.M.Arch.S. that I know of offhand.

There are so many esoteric degrees given by different programs that I
would hope that there are statistics for the broader categories of
graduate and undergraduate degrees in architecture (generally
considered to include "environmental design," "interior design," but
excluding "landscape archtecture," and "urban design."

If not maybe the National Architectural Acrediting Board (NAAB) has
statistics on the two degree programs they acredit:  B.Arch. and
M.Arch. programs (the professional degrees). Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
("B.Arch.? M.Arch? What's in a Name?" _Architectural Record_ (August
2002), 85) gives the NAAB statistics that in 2001 2,773 B.Arch.
degrees and 1,750 M.Arch. degrees were awarded.

I hope this helps.

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Clarification of Question by cowherd-ga on 29 Oct 2002 12:56 PST

I have found a good source for the answer at
<http://www.architecturalrecord.com/features/EducationChart_AL.asp>.
It is a database of 48 non-professional and 51 professional
undergraduate programs along with 137 graduate programs. Each one
lists the number of students and the percentage of those that are
international. It seems to need only an excel spreadsheet set up to
calculate the total students in each category (graduate and
undergraduate) and the number of international students in each
category. (If the international percentage is missing an average for
the rest of the schools could be substituted.)
I would still appreciate the help in getting these numbers if someone
can do it by the end of the day today (Tuesday 29 October).
thanks and happy crunching,
Cowherd-ga