Architect and civil engineer


Architects design buildings, civil engineers design building sites, parking lots, sewers, landfills - not buildings. Both need at least a bachelors degree, and both often end up with masters degrees. What you get depends on where you want to go in your profession.
Architects have to have a limited knowledge within all the engineering disciplines, mostly having to do with vertical construction, and should be able to organize themselves and others, be good with time management. Few embody those last two. Civil engineers are math intensive (true of any any engineering discipline) geological and geographical problem solvers. They specialize in shaping the earth.

Neither "makes more money" or is more successful than the other. Like any job, you are what you make of it. A successful architect or CE can easily bring in a six-figure income as a principal in a firm. Either could be contented with a much smaller income, if they decide to work "solo." Either could be sued into poverty for incompetence.

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