NJSOA GRADUATE PROGRAMS

Director of Graduate Programs: Anthony Schuman
Graduate Program & Admissions Coordinator: Fred Little

Professional M.Arch

The NAAB-Accredited Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) is a graduate level program for students who wish to prepare for licensure as professional architects.  The full program requires seven semesters of full-time enrollment for students without previous architectural design courses or experience. Students with undergraduate, non-professional degrees in architecture or related fields, or who have a non-NAAB accredited architecture degree may receive up to two years of advanced placement, depending on their previous training and experience.

Post-Professional Degrees

NJSOA offers two distinct post-professional degrees for students who have already earned a first professional degree: the design-studio based 30-credit MSArch I and the 36-credit Master in Infrastructure Planning (M.I.P.), an interdisciplinary design-studio based degree program for designers who are interested in design at the scale of the community, city, and region.

Academic Degrees

The Master of Science in Architecture (MSArch II) is a 36-credit non-professional, degree program for careers in architectural research and scholarship, culminating in a six-credit thesis.

The Ph.D. in Urban Systems, sponsored jointly by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Rutgers University -Newark, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), is the first doctoral program in the social sciences to draw upon the combined strengths of New Jersey's three senior public research universities.

Five dual degree programs are open to candidates in both M.Arch. and MIP options, permitting students to obtain both the M.Arch and a second graduate degree in substantially less time than would be required to earn the two degrees separately. (Please click on t he links for specific program descriptions.)

• Master of Architecture and Master in Infrastructure Planning (M.Arch/MIP)
• Master of Architecture and Master of Science in Management (M.Arch/MSMgmt)
• Master of Architecture and Master of Science in Civil Engineering
• Master of Infrastructure Planning and Master of City & Regional Planning (MIP/MCRP)

GRADUATE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AT NJIT

The School of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology is the only publicly-supported professional architecture program in the State. As one of the five academic Colleges of the Institute, a part of the School of Architecture’s mission is to support the Institute’s objective to become a nationally recognized technological university.

NJIT is an active agent in the transformation of New Jersey’s urban landscape, and one of the major educational institutions of the University Heights area, located at the edge of the city’s commercial center. University Heights is a center of complementary educational institutions (NJIT, Essex County College, the regional medical center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and its immediate neighbor, Rutgers University). Rutgers, literally ‘across the street’, is available to NJIT students through on-line cross-registration. 

revised October 18, 2006