Description

The Bachelor of Science in Facility Management (B.S. Fac Man) is a four year, 122 credit undergraduate degree program that incorporates two years of Architecture Foundation Studies.

The program’s junior and senior years comprise 60 credits hours, made up of 26 architecture credits, 18 business credits, 3 law credits, 4 statistics credits, 6 General Education credits and 3 elective credits. Together with the 62 credits of Architecture Foundation Studies, this makes up the 122 credits required for the degree. The program is a guaranteed degree path for undergraduate students in the Architecture Department in good standing in the University at the end of their second year.

The Architecture Department offers 16 credits of required courses specifically for facility management students, which may be taken as electives by other architecture majors. Another 10 required architecture credits are common to B.S. Arch and B. S. Arch Pres students. 18 credits of required courses are offered in the Fox School of Business and Management in accounting, micro economics, real estate, human resource management and operations management and one required course is offered in the School of Law. A statistics course is required as a prerequisite for the real estate courses. Students may attend TU Rome or TU Japan, where offerings may fulfill free elective requirements. Two of the architecture courses are writing intensive. The program concludes with a capstone research seminar, in which students demonstrate competency in facility management through applied research presented in report and public presentation format.