1.Completed application form with an application fee. This fee is mandatory.

2.A letter or statement expressing your interest in the program and reasons for applying.

3.Official transcripts of all college and university courses taken, indicating the date your professional or other undergraduate degree was awarded. All transcripts must be sent directly from the institution’s registrar.

4.Official GRE or GMAT scores sent directly and TOEFL scores, as applicable.(GRE/GMAT not required for Executive Master of Construction Management)

5.Three academic (and professional, if applicable) letters of recommendation (Two for MRED+U program). If you have waived your right for access to your letters, they may be sent directly from the recommender, or they may be included with your application in a signed and sealed envelope.

6.Digital and/or printed portfolio.

The portfolio offers candidates an opportunity to share their visual interests. The work may include, but is not limited to, reproductions of drawings, paintings, photographs, mixed-media and graphics, photographs of ceramics, sculpture, wood-work and models.

Each student may determine the binder or folder that best contains the work. Simple, easy-to-turn pages that are well-organized have a greater impact than expensive binders / complicated systems.

The portfolio offers candidates to the MArch.I / 3-year track, an opportunity to present their visual interests and artistic skills. The work may include, but is not limited to, reproductions of drawings, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, woodwork, photographs, video work and models. Although drafting (CAD or hand-drawing) courses are not required for admission to the 3-year program, students who want to include such drawings, are encouraged to do so.

Students applying for advanced standing (MArch.II / 2-year track) or Master of Urban Design, must present a selection of their best architectural works during their pre-professional studies. In order to facilitate the waiving of courses and studios, examples must emphasize comprehensive skills including sketches, plans, sections and elevations, and graphics that exhibit conceptual and diagramming abilities, understanding of structures and of urban context, as well as any other skills (computer modeling, models, photography and film abilities, etc.). Examples of professional work are encouraged but must clearly identify and describe work done independently and as part of a team.

Each student is required to submit a digital portfolio via email to

SoAGradAdmissions@miami.edu

or by mail to the address noted below. Please save the digital portfolio with your Lastname_Firstname. Digital portfolios must be no more than 50 pages and no greater than 8 MB. Expensive binders are not necessary for printed portfolios; simple, easy-to-turn pages that are well-organized have a greater impact than expensive binders / complicated systems.

A self-addressed, postage pre-paid envelope must be included for portfolio return. Portfolios are not retained after the application process.