The June 2026 Licensure Examination for Architects closed with numbers UC CAFA has every reason to be proud of: a 93.22 percent passing rate among first time examinees, well above the national passing rate of 85.08 percent, and an overall passing rate of 87.88 percent across all examinees. Fifty eight new architects now carry the UC name into the profession. What follows is the story behind those numbers, the kind of evidence that speaks to graduate readiness, sustainable community building, and the quality of education itself.
Graduates Ready for the Profession
A licensure passing rate is never just a number on a board exam. It is a third party, externally verified measure of graduate employability, the clearest evidence a college can offer that its students leave campus ready for a regulated profession and capable of meeting the expectations of employers and partner firms. Each of the 58 new architects represents a verified employment outcome, a graduate whose competence has been tested and confirmed outside the walls of the university itself. That kind of outcome builds employer reputation over time, the quiet but steady currency that follows a program long after any single cohort graduates.
Building Sustainable, Resilient Communities
Architecture does not end at the drafting table. Every newly licensed architect is a trained professional now equipped to shape the built environment, to design the sustainable, resilient communities that growing cities need. UC CAFA’s curriculum treats sustainable design and urban planning not as an elective interest but as a throughline across the entire program, so that licensure performance becomes direct evidence of quality education and a strong teaching and learning environment, one capable of producing practitioners aligned with the goals of sustainable cities and communities.
Sustainability Woven Into Every Lesson
The same curriculum that produced this year’s passing rate is the one built around sustainable development, environmental responsibility, and green design principles from the first year of study onward. That is what makes a passing rate like this more than an academic statistic. It is a measurable outcome of education and research that treats sustainability as core content rather than an afterthought, evidence that classroom learning translates into licensed, practicing professionals who carry sustainable design thinking into the field.
Outcomes That Define Quality Education
Beneath all of it sits an outcomes based approach to teaching and learning. UC CAFA’s Technical Learning Outcomes are mapped directly to the architecture curriculum, and licensure examination performance is the clearest test of whether those outcomes hold up outside the classroom. A passing rate at or above the national passing average is not a one time achievement. It is a sustained marker of teaching and learning outcomes, career readiness, and quality assurance, the kind of consistent performance that defines program quality over time rather than in a single cycle.
Mabuhay, UC Architects. Your performance on this exam is also a record of what this college builds: graduates ready for the profession, communities ready to be shaped responsibly, and a curriculum proving its outcomes one licensure exam at a time.
