The State Board of Higher Education has approved a new master's degree program in architecture at Portland State University. It will be the second graduate degree of its type to be offered in Oregon, along with University of Oregon's. It's also been a long time coming. PSU is seeking to enter candidacy status for professional accreditation with the National Architectural Accrediting Board in July.
The new Master of Architecture degree program, say its organizers, will encourage hands-on fabrication, design-build experiences, in-depth thesis investigations and urban architecture. The department plans on adding six new full-time faculty members over thenext two years to support graduate studies and enhance the researchbase.
"We are very pleased. It is an essential componentin developing greater strength in sustainability with a focus on theurban environment at PSU," said Roy Koch, provost and vice presidentfor Academic Affairs, in a boilerplate press release that I've copied much of this blog post from. "This program takes advantage of existing strengths at our university including our nationally recognized Urban Studies and Planning and Engineering programs to build a distinctive program with a focus on architecture in the urban and metropolitan environment."
The new Master of Architecture is a two-year 74 credit hour program.The University anticipates that it will grow to an enrollment of 25-30 students per year.
Nice program for our future architects. Hope it will be more student's that can enroll per year.
Posted by: Social Network Web Design | June 09, 2008 at 08:10 PM
Too bad psu's attempt at creating an art history Masters program was blocked at the state level. No competition for Eugene eh?
Posted by: psst | June 23, 2008 at 05:24 PM
this is so good to hear. i would love to entered into this program.
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