Graduate Architecture Programs

Our goal is to make you a critical thinker, innovator, and lifelong learner. A Taubman education will shape you into a practitioner who will change the profession as an agent of progress.

Paired with our embrace of experimentation and experience as one of the country’s first architecture programs, our constantly evolving approach to architecture education will prepare you for a career anywhere and everywhere you want to go.

You’ll gain expertise in the most innovative global design practices, an understanding of architecture’s histories and potential futures, and an aptitude to think actively in the world to create a better, more just, and beautiful built environment.

Advanced Technologies, New Methods And Materials

A Taubman education is enhanced by our range of facilities from one of the best digital fabrication labs in any architecture school in the world to our new visualization lab to support innovation in extended reality to interdisciplinary resources and research capabilities unique to one of the world's most distinguished public research universities.

Prepare To Innovate, Experiment, And Lead

Our faculty are passionate educators, researchers, and scholars in progressive practice, digital fabrication, computational design, and emerging technologies, and pioneers in post-digital and experimental design techniques. We are also one of the few architecture and urban planning schools to have a full-time career and professional development team dedicated to assisting you find and grow your career.

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Graduate Program Options

Learn to design and create better built environments with one of our three master's level degrees.

Architecture

The Master of Architecture is a 3-year studio-intensive professional degree accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). The course of study is open to applicants with a bachelor's degree in any discipline, and combines coursework in design, history and theory, representation, digital fabrication, computation, technology, and sustainability. Those with a pre-professional degree in architecture may be eligible for admission with advanced standing.

Program Length: 2 or 3 years

Urban Design

The Master of Urban Design will teach you how to conceptualize and share the complex global processes of urban transformation. We address a diverse range of urban design thought and experimentation within the context of national and international settings. International and national travel is an important part of the experiential learning initiatives in our studios. For admission, this degree requires a five-year bachelor's degree or master's degree in architecture, landscape architecture, or urban planning.

Program Length: 3 semesters

Digital & Material Technologies

The Master of Science in Architecture Design and Research is a 3-semester degree concentrating in digital and material technologies. You will be immersed in research in advanced fabrication techniques, digital design, and material systems. As a result, you'll be ready to pursue research and entrepreneurial practices, a career in the academy, or expand your architectural practice. For admission, this degree requires a prior professional degree in architecture, engineering, urban planning, or industrial design.

Program Length: 3 semesters

Dual Degrees and Graduate Certificates

Dual degree options enable you to earn two degrees simultaneously, and you may count some of your credits toward graduate certificates.

Interested in joining our community of great minds who design in boundary-breaking, risk-taking ways?

GRE scores are not required. Get more details on eligibility and requirements.

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Alumni Profiles

The University of Michigan has one of the largest and most diverse alumni groups in the world, and Taubman College's 10,000+ alumni live and work across the U.S. and in over 75 countries.

“I see myself as an architect, a designer, a social advocate and entrepreneur, and a visual storyteller. At Taubman College, I started to explore how design and social advocacy can work together to make spaces more inclusive.”

— Chris Locke, M.Arch ‘16

Associate, Steinberg Hart
Co-Founder of Designing in Color

“The University of Michigan is truly a unique place with a unique mindset that disseminates out after people graduate. I've been amazed over and over again that when I meet another Michigan graduate for the first time and they find out that I'm also an alum, they bend over backwards to help me.”

— Andrea Springer, M.S. ‘13

Senior Principal / Director of Digital Technology & Innovation, Stantec

“The curriculum showed me urban design from different points of view and disciplines, from planning and architecture to real estate and incorporating technology like GIS. The 10-month program felt much longer because it was such an intense and diverse learning experience.”

— Wilson Qian, M.U.D. ‘12

Advisory Specialist, Beijing Society for Urban Planning & Design

Ready to learn new ideas, concepts, design techniques, and sensibilities that will guide your thinking and creative work for years to come?

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