UCF Partners With Other Colleges to Create Architecture Degree
Academics, News — By Jennifer Evans on December 6, 2009 at 7:37 pmThrough a new partnership between UCF, Valencia, and the University of Florida, both UCF and Valencia students will have the chance to earn a Bachelor of Design in Architecture degree.
Beginning in the Fall of 2010, architecture classes will be taught at the new University Center Building on Valencia’s West campus off of Kirkman road. Architecture is a major that was previously not included in the long list of degrees available at UCF.
After completing the major as a UCF student, the student has the option to obtain a Masters degree from the University of Florida, through additional classes at the University Center Building in Orlando.
The Orlando chapter of the American Institute of Architects played a role in organizing the program between the schools.
UCF says the degree will prepare students for a professional career in architecture, construction, or industrial design.
For more information, go to www.architecture.ucf.edu.
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I was admitted to Yale but not admitted to UCF. I am a UCF student ONLY BY APPEAL.
It is *** I M P O S S I B L E *** to get into UCF from out-of-state as a transfer.
I don’t think you would agree with my comments. I don’t think transfer students are the problem. Highly qualified transfer students should be able to get into UCF.
I don’t see a problem with people who “goofed off” in high school going to community college and then getting into UCF. Three of the smartest people I met at UCF went to community college first.
I think UCF should be harder to get into for undergraduates, and that Valencia Community College should be turned into a 4 year “Valencia State College”. Frankly, I had too many morons in my undergraduate classes who slowed down the pace of the classes. My quality of education was hurt because they were too slow.
Val State would take the brunt of the undergraduate population that couldn’t get into UCF and produce more graduates that could go to UCF for graduate school.
Those programs that were canceled should be continued at Valencia State College just like those programs that were moved to what was once Daytona Community College (2 year) now Daytona State College (4 year). None of those programs really have any research potential.
Basically, I want the University of California system in Florida. Look at the best universities in the country and you’ll see that there is a larger graduate/undergraduate ratio. Currently, UF is the only major research school in Florida. This makes no sense to me considering that UCF is in a largly populated city and could possibly have better access to industry resources.
Hitt is growing the undergraduate programs at a faster rate than our graduate programs. I think the opposite should happen if UCF wants to better serve the Central Florida community.
I agree. I know that people have financial problems when it comes to college and thus choose to do community college first, but it sucks when people who goof off in high school get into UCF through community colleges because they can’t get in as seniors. I think UCF needs to take a better look at the transfer students coming in and be more selective.
I am glad they have a new major, but they should try to get back the ones they lost last year because of the budget. I have a roommate who was a radiological scieces major until the program got dropped. Now she has no idea what to do.
I kind of agree with meh. Our undergraduate program is already really hard to get into as a freshman from high school… the problem is so many transfers from valencia and the other directconnect to ucf programs take up all the slots. I know people from out of state who are being admitted to schools like Duke and other very good name schools who are being rejected from UCF because there are SOOO few slots. You basically need a national merit scholarship to get in from out of state. We need to cut the transfer students and replace them with more out of state/international students and also more graduate students. As this should increase the number of students staying for 4 years rather then two, we can also accept less each year and become more selective.
I like that we are including this major, but I think UCF is failing on what should be the major focus of a large university- Research.
I’m not interested in undergraduate only programs at UCF. GOOD universities do research, state colleges do teaching.
But who knows? Maybe this will ultimately lead to a graduate program in industrial design and architecture at UCF.
In my oppinion, Valencia should be converted into a 4 year state college (Valencia State College) that houses undergraduate programs such as Engineering Technology, Cardiovascular Sciences and all those glorified 2 year majors that are expanded to 4 years so that students could have a little more experience. Its main focus should be on providing a hands on undergraduate education while UCF should lower its graduate admissions standards and raise their undergraduate admissions standards. Theoretically, a higher quality undergraduate student should be able to take on more responsibility such as doing undergraduate research.
This would create the actual “Research hub” in Central Florida that seems to be non existant right now. It seems like the majority of all advanced jobs end up going to California.