Start - or jump start - your career as an architect. 

Enter or expand a career as a professional architect, designer, planner, and more. Earning a graduate certificate in Architecture from one of the country's most renowned research universities positions you as a leader at the place business and technology meet.

The New Jersey School of Architecture offers four graduate certificates in architecture: Sustainable Building Design, Digitally Augmented Architecture, Sustainable Cities and Urban Ecologies, Real Estate Design and Development. Complete our interest form to get instant information about application deadlines, tuition assistance and more.

Relevant career paths include:

Associate Architect

Architectural Designer

Junior Architect

Each NJIT graduate certificate program contains 4 graduate courses (equivalent to a total of 12 graduate credits) that are normally part of the curriculum for a 30-credit Master's degree program. 

After successful completion of a graduate certificate, a student may decide to continue studying at NJIT towards the corresponding Master's degrees in Architecture by taking advantage of rapid matriculated acceptance.

Advanced technologies allow architects to address climate change by designing a more environmentally friendly built environment. Courses in this certificate provide an understanding of the environmental impact associated with the construction and energy consumption of buildings. 

You will learn how to tackle sustainability challenges at the scale of a building and learn about energy efficiency, passive house standards, life cycle assessment, and how design decisions impact the environment. This certificate will help designers to make strategic design responses to lower the environmental footprint of buildings and respond to global warming.

The integration of Information Technology in architecture has changed the way we experience the built and natural environment. Interactive maps and other smartphone apps are the beginning of different ways to interact with our physical environment through new interfaces. A rapid development of emerging augmented reality technologies will define the changing characteristics of work environments, public and private spaces. 

This certificate will introduce you to the history, politics and economic forces that are starting to define this critical space. You will learn tools, methods and strategies in computational processes ranging from areas of embedded systems and human factors.

Cities are ecological systems that are defined by social, economic, cultural and political processes. These urban ecologies are in a constant state of change. An understanding of the dynamic qualities of these ecologies is necessary in order to steer the direction of urban development to respond to climate change, inequality and a digital lifestyle. 

You will be introduced to tools such as GIS and other technologies to monitor the environmental impact and methods to operate at the scale of urban ecological systems. You will learn about master planning, community engagement, zoning and land use. And you will gain insights through contemporary and historic perspectives about public space, housing, development, redevelopment and reuse. 

Data driven technologies provide a new depth of understanding of the needs of individual citizens and communities. At the same time a deep knowledge of history and culture of a place and a productive relationship with communities, local leaders and government officials is necessary to act responsibly to benefit society and the environment. 

This certificate will introduce you to the terms, concepts, strategies and theories on real estate. Courses will provide an overview of commercial real estate and the private property market. You will also learn data driven tools used in analysis, property valuation, financing, investment and management and monitoring the construction and maintenance of buildings. 

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