MIT's architecture department opened in 1868 with four students in the four-year course.
At the last US department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition (held every two years, challenging 20 university teams to design and build the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered home), students from University of Maryland took second place, behind a team from Germany.
Students in Cornell University's Department of Architecture spend a semester abroad in Rome to study the intersection of history and architectural design.
UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design was the first to combine the disciplines of architecture, planning, and landscape architecture into a single college.
Boston Architectural College offers a unique "concurrent learning" model, in which students work at approved, paid positions during the day -- the "practice" component of the curriculum -- while studying several evenings a week at the college-- the "academic" component.
The School of Architecture at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosts a pre-college "discover architecture" program for high school students.
Illinois Wesleyan University Founded in 1850, Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU) is a highly selective liberal arts university with an enrollment of 2,100. IWU has long been known for its outstanding faculty, distinctive liberal ...
