Undergraduate Degrees & Minors
Build your future.
Change the world.
As a student at CAPLA, you’ll find a rigorous, robust and rewarding experience designing and building community in the multicultural heart of the Sonoran desert.
Our programs in architecture, design arts and practices, landscape architecture and sustainable built environments are taught by world-class faculty in state-of-the-art facilities.
You’ll find your place at CAPLA and graduate ready to thrive—whether that’s in architecture or landscape architecture, conservation or design, development or project management, consulting or planning, sustainability or some other essential career. Because at CAPLA, you’re building a changing world.
CAPLA Undergraduate Degrees
CAPLA's highly ranked, NAAB-accredited five-year B Arch prepares students for professional registration and practice in the field of architecture and design.
CAPLA's Bachelor of Landscape Architecture is a four-year professional degree that prepares students to become successful, licensed landscape architects.
CAPLA's innovative four-year, STEM-designated BS SBE, offered both in-person and fully online, prepares students with the skills to make our communities, buildings and landscapes more resilient.
Global Microcampus Program in Sustainable Built Environments
CAPLA has partnered with top-ranked La Universidad Peruana de Ciencia Apilcadas (UPC) in Lima, Peru for our first microcampus program. The dynamic curriculum of the BS Sustainable Built Environments allows the degree to bridge with UPC's Bachelor of Architecture so that students in Peru start with the architecture program, add SBE courses beginning in their third year and graduate with both degrees.
UArizona Partner Undergraduate Degrees Offered by Other Colleges
SPATIAL ORGANIZATION & DESIGN THINKING EMPHASIS
Offered by the College of Humanities, the four-year Bachelor of Arts in Applied Humanities with an emphasis in Spatial Organization & Design Thinking provides an innovative approach to understanding and affecting the physical world, bringing a humanities perspective to the future of the built environment. The degree offers courses in sustainability, digital media, fabrication technology and more, preparing you for jobs that communicate about—and effect change in—buildings, cities and landscapes.
Offered by the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics in the College of Engineering, in partnership with the School of Architecture, the four-year BSAE combines civil, structural, electrical and mechanical engineering principles with architectural theory, history and design. Architectural engineers ensure the structural integrity and resilience of buildings, along with the health and safety of people inside them. These in-demand professionals design structural, mechanical, plumbing, power and lighting systems, while also handling project and construction management.
OBJECT DESIGN AND SPATIAL DESIGN EMPHASIS AREAS
Offered by the College of Fine Arts, in partnership with CAPLA and the iSchool, the four-year, interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts in Design Arts and Practices prepares students to collaboratively work across media, scales and disciplines to tackle complex problems. It offers four emphasis areas, including two in partnership with CAPLA: Object Design and Spatial Design. The others are Print Design and Screen Design.
Note that CAPLA does not provide advising or other academic support for the Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering or Bachelor of Arts in Applied Humanities. Please contact the respective departments at the links above for further information.
CAPLA Undergraduate Minors
Minor in Architectural History and Theory
The 18-unit Minor in Architectural History and Theory is designed for those students who are interested in preservation, studying to receive an advanced degree in art or architectural history or are interested in architecture history and theory.
Minor in Landscape Architecture
This 19- or 20-unit minor provides students interested in the design of the built environment the chance to engage in a course of study that includes landscape architectural history and design, landscape ecology and planning.
Minor in Real Estate Development
Designed to prepare students to create and sustain value in the real estate industry, the Minor in Real Estate Development consists of six courses (18 units), including a professional project for real estate development.
Minor in Sustainable Built Environments
Designed for students who have a passion in sustainability and a desire to make a difference, the Minor in Sustainable Built Environments consists of seven courses (18 units) and is available in-person and fully online.
Ready to build a changing world?
Learn more about CAPLA's undergraduate programs by contacting us at capla-ugrad@arizona.edu, or review the admissions process and begin your application now: