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UMass Architecture is the #1 Most Hired From program according to the latest DesignIntelligence survey. We appreciate the relationships we have with design professionals around the country and are thrilled that our students are contributing to the work of so many firms.

Some survey categories, such as "Most Admired" do not differentiate schools by size, so younger and smaller programs tend not to make the list. But in the "Most Hired From" category, where schools are identified by size, UMass Architecture has made an impressive showing!  The survey question accounts for students in both the undergraduate and graduate degrees, but school size is determined by the size of the Masters program.

After 19 years of asking which programs were "best", the DI has turned it's focus to measuring schools, "...professionals actually hire from the most. Professionals may say they admire one school over another, but that may not always have to do with the readiness and competence of the graduates.... So we now ask a second primary question: "From which schools have you hired the greatest number of students (graduate and undergraduate combined) in the last five years?"

What the professional hiring managers from firms across the nation desire is the ability of graduates to hit the ground running when they begin work in the real world. That competence ranges from the fundamental knowledge of how buildings come together to the collaborative communication skills essential to design work."

(Read more in Architectural Record's article, "America's Top Architecture Schools 2020")