University of California - Berkeley Reviews

"It was a great experience to study and share with different people from all states of our country"

"The CED's greatest strength is that it is a relatively dogma-free environment, and so does not drive students toward a particular design philosophy, but allows them to go through a self discovery process that empowers them to innovate on their own. However, because of the lack of an institutional focus, a broad sprinkling of resources tend to be underfunded. Moreover, the school strongly believes in the philosophy of "let the engineers figure it out" when it comes to structures, which is certainly a kind of dogmatic position. Still, it is clearly one of the top schools despite its problems, and it is the only American school of such elite status poised on the Pacific Rim.Read Less"

"The M.Arch program at Berkeley is the avant gard of new technology in architecture, and the opportunities there can be found in few other places. The faculty is as accessible as any I've seen and the staff care about student progress."