Bachelor of Science in Architecture
Our Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree is where creativity, innovation, and experimentation meet impact. With deep roots as one of the country’s first architecture programs, we are never static, always agile, and continuously evolving to prepare our students for future success.
Positioned within one of the nation’s top-ranked public universities, Taubman College welcomes everyone, including designers, creatives, innovators, and those interested in how we live in the built environment and what design can do in the world. We connect you with the people, resources, and opportunities you need to thrive.
What makes Taubman College stand out? As one of 19 schools and colleges within the University of Michigan, you’ll have access to countless interdisciplinary opportunities and all the resources our cutting-edge research institution has to offer. Taubman students and faculty are diverse, ambitious, and intellectually agile. Access to innovative spaces, global opportunities, and unique connections will all be part of your Taubman College education. See just some of what we have to offer:
- State-of-the-art digital fabrication and robotics laboratory
- Innovative and experimental visualization lab
- 32,000-square-foot design studio
- Extensive travel opportunities
- Dedicated, award-winning faculty with diverse research and design interests
- Renowned guest speakers and engaging extracurricular activities
- Globally diverse student body
- 12:1 student-to-faculty ratio (junior/senior studios)
- More than 1,600 student-run organizations at the university
The studio experience is central to a Taubman College education. With one of the largest continuous academic studios in the world, it is a fully engaged, communal learning environment where you’ll collaborate with faculty and peers and push yourself to expand intellectual and creative capacities that you might not even know you have.
We constantly evaluate and challenge how the studio experience instills a spirit of inquiry, implementing new technologies and methods to empower students and foster experimentation.
Dimensions is the student-produced journal of architecture at the University of Michigan published annually since 1987.
It seeks to contribute to the critical discourse of architectural education by documenting the most compelling work produced by its students, faculty, fellows, and visiting lecturers.
We are one of the few architecture programs in the nation that offers a dedicated full-time career and professional development team. Through various programs and resources to help our students explore careers, secure positions, and continue skill development and management, Taubman architecture graduates enter their careers prepared to create a better, more just, and more beautiful built environment.
Our Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree will prepare you for future work in many areas. After graduating, you will have numerous career and graduate study opportunities.
- Career Paths: Find opportunities within architecture firms or related design occupations. Use your degree as a springboard for creative work in a multitude of fields.
- Architecture Graduate Studies: Prepare for architectural licensure by pursuing a professional Master of Architecture degree.
- Related Graduate Studies: Pursue a graduate program in a related field, such as landscape architecture, engineering, design, construction, urban planning, urban design, or historic preservation.
- Expanded Graduate Studies: Pursue graduate degrees in non-architecture fields, such as business or law, and apply your design knowledge to those fields.
Space to Ideate and Innovate
The Taubman College Digital Fabrication and Robotics Lab (FABLab) supports research and teaching activities in digital fabrication, robotic construction, and physical making across a wide range of materials and processes. It is recognized as one of the premier facilities among academic institutions worldwide.
Intellectually Diverse Faculty
Our program’s strength is rooted in its agility and intellectual diversity. You will learn from faculty with a wide variety of expertise, methodologies, and ways of designing and theorizing architecture’s role in the world.
Community and Connections
You will be well-supported by a large and inclusive community of students, faculty, and staff who are knowledgeable, curious, collegial, and just as excited about architecture as you are. They bring a variety of experiences and points of view. They will be your sounding board, your support network, and your friends.
Pathways to Apply
Transfer students who seek financial aid (grants, loans, work-study) during the summer term are required to fill out the previous year’s FAFSA since that term is the end of that aid year. Then, for their first fall/winter semesters, the current FAFSA is required so transfer students need to complete two FAFSAs.
Making decisions about the next step in your educational journey is a time full of opportunity and potential. Yet, you may also have concerns about paying for your degree. There are numerous financial resources to help you manage tuition and living expenses.
Gradient is an online platform for current conversations in architecture and urbanism at Taubman College and beyond. The journal highlights the wide variety of expertise and methods and diverse ways of designing and theorizing the built environment’s role in the world. Project Papers further spotlight the intellectual diversity of our internationally recognized faculty.
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