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Can Architectural engineering major student become licensed architect?

Hello, I am going to study architectural engineering in Penn State in next school year. Since I was a kid, I always wanted to become an architect; designing the house and buildings...there's something so fascinating about it:) But when I was filling out the application, the architecture course in penn state was already filled, so I had to applied to architectural engineering. I found out that I'm still going to design the house and build the model, and I just need to take more physics and math classes than architecture major students do. am I correct here? But anyway what i want to ask is, if I study AE for four years and study architecture for two year in graduate school, can I become an architect? I mean do I get a chance to take ARE someday? or do I have to have bachelor's degree from undergraduate school to be able to study architecture in graduate school? I hope all these make sense to you....I;ve been so frustrated nowadays......:-/ Thank you.

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1. Licensing requirements for architecture will be found below.