COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
THE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN History and Rankings
Founded in 1965, the College of Architecture and Design houses the only accredited undergraduate architecture, graduate architecture, and landscape architecture programs in Tennessee. Its three disciplines – interior design, architecture and landscape architecture – are the top-ranked programs in the state. UT Undergraduate Architecture has placed on national lists several times, including its citation as a top 20 program in 2011 by DesignIntelligence, a benchmark for architecture and design school rankings.
Financial Aid + Tuition
Nearly all students of the college receive financial aid throughout their course of study. UT grants financial aid to more than 75 percent of all students, and was named a “Best Value College” by the 2013 Edition of Princeton Review. For the 2012-13 academic year, the college’s graduate programs in architecture and landscape architecture gave the equivalent of more than $1,000,000 in the form of assistantships, chancellor’s fellowships, college scholarships, grants and other competitive financial awards. UT’s graduate and undergraduate tuitions rates are consistently below the national average.
Mission + Projects
With a mission to educate future design professionals, the college is committed to the development of individuals with creative imagination, intellectual curiosity, and technical knowledge. Students often see their work realized through realworld projects including urban planning through the college’s multidisciplinary collaboration with the Nashville Civic Design Center and Knoxville Metropolitan Planning Commission; rural and international design through the Haiti Project, an effort that has already designed and built a school and housing for teachers in Fonddes-Blancs, Haiti; and the New Norris House, a national, award-winning model for sustainable design.
Professional Development + Careers
Furthermore, we at the UT College of Architecture and Design strive for the success of our students in our respective design professions. We educate students to form independent judgments grounded in the broader contexts of intellectual traditions. Our students are some of the brightest and most dedicated students on UT campus, and our graduates are some of the most heavily recruited from the university. Our graduates have pursued careers at some of the world’s most prominent design firms, gone on to post-graduate study at pre-eminent universities, and have made major impacts to the designed environment through completed projects across the globe.
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