Architecture students in the US give more additional hours compared to those from other college courses. This is according to a recent survey conducted by the Indiana University.
Based on the survey, Architecture majors give average hours of 22.2 per week of study outside their classes. This means an additional 2.5 hours than the chemical engineering students that placed second. Meantime, other sciences and engineering subjects are reported to take up the majority of the top 10 list, while those in sports, management, and communications courses came in towards the bottom.
Architecture students, along with the other thousands of freshmen and seniors that take 86 different majors throughout the US, were the subject of the recent NSSE study, from which the data were collected. According to reports, one of the questions asked was the number of hours spent reading, studying, doing homework or lab work and writing out of timetabled hours, and later averaged the results through the Tab and compiled into ranks.
It should be noted that related disorders in architecture students, including depression, were previously revealed to have been due to the number of hours spent working. Meantime, in a recent study it was found that over a quarter of students studying architecture in the UK were reported to have mental health problems that were due to their studies, including workload as the major factor, Dezeen reported.
Architecture education for free, meanwhile, is reported to be offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Design when it launches its web-based course program. This Architectural Imagination course is expected to enable the students to learn the fundamental principles of architecture from the study of the significant buildings based on history, as explained on the official website.
With more than 10 modules, the program will reportedly be taken throughout the same number of weeks, in which the first part focuses on form and history, while the second on technology and the last will be representation and context, the same publication reported. Learn about Things Architecture Students Say here:
