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Admission Requirements
Applicants to the post-professional MS Arch are expected to have an NAAB-accredited B.Arch or equivalent degree. International B.Arch degree holders who seek professional licensure in the United States should apply for admission to the M.Arch Program with advanced standing. All applications to NJSOA require the inclusion of all prior post-secondary transcripts, a statement of purpose, three letters of recommendation, GRE results, and a statement of purpose. Applicants to either the Professional M.Arch or post-professional MS Arch Programs must also submit a portfolio with their applications.

Prospective applicants to the academic MS Arch should consult with the NJSOA Graduate Program Office regarding appropriate preparation for the degree they seek. Available concentrations in the MS Arch currently include sustainable design, digital design, advanced structural design, and history and theory of architecture. Customized programs of study are available for exceptionally well-motivated and self-directed students.

Post-Professional Track Degree Requirements
ARCH 505G (6 credits) Advanced Options Design Studio I
ARCH 506G (6 credits) Advanced Options Design Studio II
Eighteen elective credits chosen in consultation with Graduate Architecture Program Director.

Academic Track Degree Requirements
The articulated MS Arch in Sustainable Architecture program, which extends the four-course Certificate in Sustainable Architecture Program into a full 30-credit Masters degree, is shown below. Students with other areas of interest may design their individual programs in consultation with the Graduate Architecture Program Director. Our general guidelines are that any such program of study should be composed of a four-course twelve-credit core, a two-course six-credit extension of that core including one research methods course appropriate to the student’s area of focus, six credits of independent study, including the Master’s Project, and two additional electives.As noted above, available concentrations include digital design, advanced structural design, history and theory of architecture, and urban systems.

Required Courses

M.S. Arch in Sustainable Architecture
ARCH 663 (3 credits) Introduction to Sustainable Architecture
ARCH 664 (3 credits) Indoor Environmental Quality in Sustainably Designed Buildings
ARCH 665 (3 credits) Sustainable Design of Energy Efficient Buildings
ARCH 666 (3 credits) Sustainable Design with Efficient Materials and Resources
ARCH 662 (3 credits) Special Topics: Integrated Building Systems I (or ARCH 546G or other substitute approved by Director)
ARCH 662 (3 credits) Special Topics: Integrated Building Systems II (or substitute approved by Director)
ARCH 700 (3 credits) Master’s Project

Since its foundation in 1956, Middle East Technical University has been very interested in archaeology and archaeometrical studies. This interest, which was already existing independently in the departments of physics and chemistry, flourished with the Keban Dam Rescue Project (1968-1974). The Keban and Lower Euphrates Projects began in 1975 and were expanded with the establishment of the METU Research Center for the Investigation and Salvage of Historical Remains, TEKDAM, in 1982 and have continued until the present time with the name of METU Center for Research and Assessment of the Historic Environment, TAÇDAM, since 199 display of various findings from some of the excavations on the Campus and in the Ankara Region. Koçumbeli Idol was one of those findings on campus grounds. It was used as the symbol of the 29th International Symposium on Archaeometry organized by the graduate program of Archaeomery (METU) which was held in Ankara in 1994.

The scientists who have carried out individual studies in Turkey since 1960s have been cooperating with archaeologists. In the 1970s, an application was filed to TÜBİTAK for the establishment of a Unit of Archaeometry attached to it and eventually the Unit of Archaeometry was established in 1980. Scientists from METU, Hacettepe, Istanbul, Boğaziçi, Istanbul Technical, Çukurova and Fırat Universities have participated in this Unit. This Unit continued to do research under the name of AKSAY which stands for the “Investigation of Archaeological findings by Spectroscopic and Analytical Methods” in Turkish. This Unit functioned until 1992. Alongside the work of the Unit, there was a need to educate students who would carry out archaeometric studies in the museums and at other research laboratories. As a result of this, METU initiated a Masters Program in Archaeometry as part of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences in 1990 with thesis and non-thesis version in 2003. These programs educate bachelors degree holders in all fields.

The main purpose of the program is to qualify the graduates toward bringing solutions to the archaeological problems by the application of scientific methods of natural and applied sciences. The study and understanding of history have acquired a new dimension through the collaboration between pure scientists and archaeologists. Thus, the analysis, identification and dating of archaeological remains and materials have become complete.