Welcome to Your Future in SA+P
Discover our dynamic undergraduate programs in Architecture and Interior Design. At UTSA, your journey begins with a common Foundation Year, designed to set you up for success in our competitive programs. Whether you're dreaming of creating stunning architectural masterpieces or transforming interiors, our Bachelor of Science degrees provide the perfect start.
All initial applications are handled by UTSA's Undergraduate Admissions Office. Students interested in Architecture, Construction Science and Management, or Interior Design will begin as Pre-Architecture, Pre-Construction Science and Management, and Pre-Interior Design students. After completing the Foundation Year, you’ll have the opportunity to apply for our highly sought-after B.S. programs based on your performance.
Ready to take the first step? Visit UTSA Undergraduate Admissions for more information and to start your application process today.
Undergraduate Programs
The School of Architecture + Planning offers three master's degree programs with two different dual degree tracks for concurrent study. Click on any of the cards below to learn more more.
Graduate Programs
Explore Our Architecture Programs
In an integrated, design-centered environment that extends out into the city and beyond, our students explore the territory between the local and the global, context and theory, history and innovation, and the search for universal rules and the immediacy of place-based practice.
Recent innovations and ideas propel both student and faculty explorations, practices and studies: the evolution of technology, digital environments and fabrication, landscape urbanism, sustainability, the tensions inherent in the expanding city and its urban fabric, as well as the dynamic between product and process. The MArch program is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB).
Architecture Programs
Path toward licensure
Our architecture programs are part of the sequence that leads to professional licensure commonly called the three Es: Education, Experience and Examination.
- Education: BS ARCH = 4 years; MARCH = 2 years (UTSA degree programs)
- Experience: Architecture Experience Program / AXP
- Examination: ARE exams (ARE 5.0)
See the NCARB links for further details about Experience and Examination:
Explore Our Graduate Certificate Programs
The School of Architecture + Planning offers three graduate certificate programs: Historic Preservation, High-Performance Design and Sustainability, and Urban and Regional Planning. Refer to the Graduate Catalog for additional information about these programs.
Braided Curriculum
Our curriculum is conceived as a braid. These braids form distinct and interconnected dialogues that transverse the programs. In turn, they give shape to the School’s curriculum, atmosphere, and identity. Braids are found throughout each program of study: Interior Design, Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning; each separate braid interconnects with the others. Questions, practices, and Inquiries form at their interstices. By thoughtfully joining theory and practice, these braids pass through our courses in sequence having emerged over time as we evolved as a school. In this way, the curriculum responds to the genius loci of San Antonio, our educational mission and vision, our commitment to provide students with a rich and varied educational environment, our link with the professions, and our dedication to scholarship and research.
In Dialogue with the past––history, memory, + tradition
In Dialogue with practice––materials, techniques, + processes
In Dialogue with the profession––between academy + profession
In Dialogue with place(1)––between local + global
In Dialogue with place(2)––environment + ecology
In Dialogue through experiential learning + engagement
In Dialogue with ideas––history + theory
