Academics

With a CED education, you'll learn to face design and planning challenges with confidence, ask the right questions, and become a visionary leader.

CED is at the forefront of solving the environmental challenges of the 21st century. Through research, experimentation, and design inquiry, we are leading the way toward creating communities that are equitable, resilient, and culturally vibrant.

As the first college to unite the disciplines of architecture, planning, and landscape architecture, CED pioneered an integrated approach to analyzing, understanding, and designing our built environment that continues to inform its work today. 

This diversity of perspectives informs our expansive curriculum, which encourages exploration across disciplines. The college’s 700 undergraduate and 400 graduate students come from all over the world and reflect the diverse communities in which we live and work.

We think globally but act locally, understanding buildings, cities, and landscapes as products of specific histories, societies, economies, materials, and systems. Our highly ranked degree programs address the challenges facing our built environment from these multiple perspectives.