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Architecture - BArch

Program Overview

AUC’s Bachelor of Architecture program trains future engineers to lead the architectural profession into the digital age while respecting local heritage and striking a balance between digital design, professional content, and contextual, humanistic and sustainable approaches. The program equips students with a comprehensive vision, integrating various aspects of the built environment: how it is planned, designed, used and appreciated by society. Students enter the job market prepared to pursue professional and academic careers with globally accredited degrees recognized by the International Union of Architects (UNESCO/UIA).

Concentrations

  • Human and Environmental Studies
  • Tectonic and Computational Design
  • Architecture and Urban Heritage Design
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Degrees and Admission Requirements

Students wishing to pursue a Bachelor of Architecture should meet the minimum academic and admission requirements set by AUC.

Learning Outcomes

Students enrolled in the architecture program will be able to:

  • Critical Thinking:Think critically and creatively in a variety of contexts, such as history, theory and architectural precedent, and design accordingly, both individually and collaboratively.
  • Communication Skills: Utilize manual and digital technologies to create, present and evaluate designs while communicating concepts verbally, visually, quantitatively and in three dimensions.
  • Socio-Cultural Understanding: Design with consideration for the urban and sociocultural settings, the creative arts, history, ethics and heritage.
  • Sustainability and Technology Integration: Create designs that are influenced by building systems, technology, sustainability and materiality as generative and integrated design concepts, and express this integration using suitable technical documentation.
  •  Professionalism: Lead with professionalism within the management, business and financial contexts and within ethical and legal constraints.

Career Paths and Practical Experience

Students can apply their knowledge and acquired skills at career-building internships with real-estate developers, professional architecture firms and specialty contracting firms.

Graduates of the architecture program have found success in these careers:

  • Design and architectural services
  • Real-estate development 
  • Product, theater or set design
  • Academia

Architecture Major

What students can expect to learn?

Professor of practice, Amr Abdel Kawi, gives a short brief about AUC’s architecture undergraduate program.

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Scholarships

Excellence for Everyone

AUC will help you set your path to success from day one. 

Students can receive anywhere from 20% to 100% of tuition coverage through scholarships and the Excellence Scholarship Program.

Applying to the program

For admission to the Bachelor of Architecture program, applicants must satisfy the general university and engineering admission requirements, and also pass an Aptitude Assessment for Architecture (AAA). The AAA test does not require any preparation and is comprised of two parts:

  • Multiple choice questions (MCQ) that test the applicant’s analytical and general knowledge on architecture-related skills
  • A free-hand drawing exercise that tests the applicant’s artistic ability.

Refer to the Frequently Asked Questions page for details of the AAA test.

Admission to the Bachelor of Architecture program is highly competitive. A limited number of students is selected to fill the available slots. Selection is based on high school grades and performance in the AAA test. The result of the Aptitude Assessment for Architecture is added to the high school score to arrive at a combined score where the high school score represents 80 percent and the Aptitude Assessment for Architecture represents 20 percent. Applicants are ranked according to this combined score.

Students who join AUC, but not in the Bachelor of Architecture program, can still apply to the major through the declaration process designed for students already enrolled at AUC. A large percentage of Architecture students are admitted from those already enrolled at AUC.

Accreditations

  • Supreme Council of Universities (2011)
  • International Union of Architects (UNESCO‐UIA validation) (2013)
  • Candidate for NAAB
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