New NCARB data shows more non-white members of the profession, but attrition rates remain high Last week, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) released preliminary data from its 2018 edition of ?By The Numbers?, an annual report about the architecture industry?s demographics, which will publish in full in July.
Like the 2017 NCARB report, the 2018 edition shows incremental improvement in racial diversity and the representation of women.
Forty-five percent of new Architectural Experience Program participants?an important early-career milestone on the path to licensure?identify as nonwhite. That represents a 3 percent increase from the 2017 report. While that statistic is encouraging, nonwhite architecture professionals are 25 percent more likely to stop pursuing licensure.
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Racial and ethnic diversity in architecture is incrementally improving at the early stages of the profession.

Mike Armstrong, CEO of NCARB, attributes the rise in diverse young professionals to a number of factors. ?The economy is pulling more people into the profession; we?ve improved our outreach to students around the country; and there?s growing diversity among architecture students,? he tells Curbed. ?As part of an ongoing effort to make the path to licensure more inclusive, NCARB eliminated several unnecessary hurdles to navigating the AXP.?

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The attrition rate for nonwhite professionals remains high.
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