Our postprofessional master of architecture II (MArch II) program offers advanced education and specialization for those with a professional degree in architecture.
- It complements Ball State’s professional bachelor of architecture.
- Note: This is not a professionally accredited degree and is not applicable toward state licensing.
This graduate program offers deeper specialization than is possible at the undergraduate level, plus interdisciplinary study and studio participation with landscape architecture and urban planning graduate programs.
Your plan of study, including a focused thesis or creative project, is tailored to your specific interests and career goals. We offer five areas of specialization:
- architectural design
- urban design
- architectural history, preservation, and restoration
- environmental science and technology
- communication technologies and design
Our students and faculty engage societies and peoples around the world. To address wide-reaching problems facing society, they seek new uses for what they know about architecture while developing new knowledge for themselves and other architectural teachers, researchers, and practitioners.
The Global Citizen-Architect
Founded in 1976, the MArch II program advances a “global citizen–architect” model. Many of our students and graduates are international, coming from places such as Argentina, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, India, Mexico, Nepal, Thailand, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. Working with colleagues from around the world and studying in international field study programs enables all participants to familiarize themselves with the global community and to question the societies in which they live.
See what issues students have been exploring, look through the student theses and creative projects.
Our program addresses the many questions students bring to us:
- What is the local impact of globalization pressures?
- Can we counter the impact of environmental degradation?
- Can architects improve the housing conditions of informal settlement dwellers around the world?
- How will (and how should) advances in digital media and the Internet influence architectural practice?
- How does our perspective change if we first engage the humanness of all people and then think as architects?
We have a truly global character. Our international student population continues to grow (some with Rotary or Fulbright scholarships), and our students increasingly present papers at national and international conferences.
Our graduate students work with faculty members, many of whom have earned doctoral degrees from prestigious schools ranging from the University of California-Berkeley and Cornell to Georgia Tech and MIT. Several are licensed architects. Ball State's College of Architecture and Planning’s graduate faculty includes individuals born in Argentina, China, France, India, Italy, Mexico, and Sri Lanka. It is a diverse group ethnically and intellectually.
Several College of Architecture and Planning-based centers and programs support our global citizen–architect learning objectives, including:
You can expect to experience civility, diversity, multicultural awareness, and environmental sustainability on campus, in the curricula, and the classroom, as well as in service and internship opportunities.