Roger Williams University Architecture graduates success on the Architectural Registration Exam (ARE) is well above the national average in all areas of the exam, and among the highest in New England, from 2005-10, the first years exam results have been available publicly. Roger Williams graduates achieved a cumulative 75% pass rate compared to 62% pass rate nationally, and tied for 3rd place overall in New England with MIT, behind Yale and Harvard University graduates. The ARE addresses seven areas: Program, Planning and Practice; Site Planning and Design; Building Design; Schematic Design; Structural Systems; Building Systems; Construction Documents. Roger Williams' students achieved one of the highest pass rates in the nation on the Schematic Design exam at more than 90% success – 20+ percentage points higher than the national average on this exam.

Roger Williams Master of Architecture program received a full 6-year term of accreditation to 2018 from the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), as a result of the NAAB Accreditation visit to the school in April 2012. The school had an outstanding visit, where the team “…found a great esprit and supportive and mutually respectful relations between faculty, staff and students”, and that “…the program strikes a balance between the art of architecture and the professional preparation of students.”  Review the 2012 NAAB Visiting Team Report here.

Professor Patrick Charles leads a 3-credit Study Abroad program to Germany in Wintersession 2013, in Arch 430/530 Special Topics: München BAU2013: Sustainable Insights. ARCH530 München BAU2013- Sustainable Insights provides students with a unique opportunity to get a sense of where the future in sustainability is headed. Students will travel to München, Germany, to discover the city, its contemporary and historical architecture and urban design. Students will also visit BAU2013, München’s world-class biennial trade fair exhibit on construction materials and technologies, which exhibits occupy the equivalent of 15 football fields and which offer numerous public conference on subjects of innovative architecture as well as recent and future “Team Germany” Solar Decathlon submissions. Students will visit many recently completed ground-breaking buildings, and meet with the innovative architecture firms and engineering practices who designed them.