AIAS

FROM THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS
RE: The Degree Nomenclature Discussion
Emerging trend of converting BArch programs to MArch programs
Allowing five-year BArch programs to become five-year MArch programs, without addressing the ambiguity between degree types that currently exists, is of major concern to the AIAS. By allowing programs simply to change their program title, the NAAB is tacitly approving degree inflation, which does nothing to strengthen and advance the profession and essentially invalidates the whole move to eliminate the five-year BArch. To change from BArch to MArch simply in nomenclature while maintaining a five-year program curriculum is highly unrealistic for many schools and may be perceived among academia, the profession, and the public as simply a convenient means to making the current issue go away.

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Emerging trend of converting BArch programs to MArch programs
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