The number of architects licensed in the United States rose to 113,554, according to the 2017 Survey of Architectural Registration Boards. This represents a 3 percent increase from 2016 and a 10 percent increase from the number of U.S. architects reported a decade ago.
Conducted annually by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), the survey provides exclusive insight into data from the architectural licensing boards of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.