攻读建筑学硕士课程的学生以及攻读建筑学硕士课程的学生都集中在五个领域之一。美国天主教大学的M.ARCH房地产开发中心计划是DC大都会地区建筑教育的领导者，它为全日制研究生和非传统夜校学生提供了完全认可的专业建筑学位课程。在由经验丰富的建筑师和房地产开发商组成的学院的带领下，这一集中的学生通过一项将建筑设计与我们的城市和都市地区的新期望融为一体的研究计划，探索了在城市化建筑环境中设计的变革力量。通过建筑设计选择来进行场所设计，以识别未来对城市主义的社会，自然和技术力量，这是设计成果的关键组成部分。学生将设计
A leader of architecture education in the D.C. metropolitan area, The Catholic University of America's M.ARCH with a Real Estate Development Concentration program offers a fully accredited professional architecture degree program for full-time graduate students and nontraditional evening students. Led by a faculty of practicing architects and real estate developers, students in this concentration explore the transformative power of design in the urbanizing built environment through a program of study that integrates architectural design with new expectations of our cities and metropolitan regions. Placemaking through architecture design choices that recognize future social, physical and technological forces upon urbanism are critical components of design outcomes. Students focus on design as a holistic process to coordinate technology, business and economics, law, construction management and urban planning.<br><br>Contemporary architecture practice requires knowledge of a wide array of architectural design challenges, contextual, sustainable while concurrently both economically and socially responsible. Entrepreneurial design solutions embrace technological advancement in the building sciences coupled with architectural and business fundamentals preparing students for leadership roles in shaping our urbanizing landscape.