At A Glance: College of Architecture and Planning

The College of Architecture and Planning is a multi-campus college with graduate programs on the Downtown Campus and undergraduate programs on the Boulder campus. The statistics below apply to graduate programs only.

Students*
Graduate: 526

Degrees Awarded 2008‡
359
Graduate: 183
Undergraduate (Boulder): 176

Faculty*†
Regular: 49
Lecturers: 51

Student-Faculty Ratio‡
10:1

Graduate Degree Programs
Architecture, MArch
Design and Planning, PhD
Landscape Architecture, MLA
Urban and Regional Planning, MURP
Urban Design, MUD

Key Areas
Emerging Design Practices
Sustainable Urbanism
Healthy Environments
Cultural Heritage

Accreditation
Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board
	(LAAB)
National Architecture Accrediting Board
	(NAAB)
Planning Accreditation Board
	(PAB)

Student Organizations:
American Institute of Architecture Students
	(AIAS)
American Planning Association for Students
	(APAS)
American Society of Landscape
	Architecture Students (ASLAS)

Alumni
Graduate: 3,739

Sample Companies Hiring Alumni
Bennett Wagner & Grody Architects
Buchanan Yonushewski Group
Cities of Aurora, Boulder, Lakewood
	and Longmont
Civitas
David Owen Tryba Architects
Davis Partnership
Design Workshop
DHM Design
EDAW
National Forest Service
New Town Builders
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

Research Centers
Children, Youth and Environments Center for
	Research and Design helps design and
	planning professionals around the world
	to promote the health, safety and welfare
	of children and youth.
Colorado Center for Community Development
	is a public service unit that for 30 years
	has provided Colorado with design and
	planning assistance on a wide range of
	open space, development and community
	service issues.
Center of Preservation Research helps
	Colorado protect its heritage in the
	built environment, through research
	and documentation of historic buildings
	and landscapes.
Colorado Center for Sustainable Urbanism
	facilitates the conversation among
	Colorado designers, planners, and
	developers to envision future communities
	and towns that will enhance our quality of
	life and moderate the impact of the state’s
	explosive growth

Bragging Rights
Solar powered houses designed and		Two MArch students won first prize and
	constructed by a team of CU architecture		third prize in the Metal Construction
	and planning and architectural engineering		Association 2008 Student Design
	students won the ﬁrst two national		Competition.
	Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
	Competitions held in 2002 and 2005.	A 2007 MArch graduate had a design
A team of architecture and planning			selected as House of the Month in the
	graduate students and Leeds Business		June 2008 edition of Architectural
	School students won the prestigious		Record.
	national Urban Land Institute Gerald D.
	Hines Student Urban Design Competition	Our “Trailer-Wrap” student-designed and
	in spring 2005. They received a $50,000		student-built trailer house won several
	prize from ULI and a proclamation from		awards, including from AIA Denver and
	the Denver City Council.		AIA Gulf States Region.
Our mentoring program was named one		Two MArch students won first place in the
	of three Best Practices in Mentorship	2007 American Institute of Architecture
	nationally by the American Institute	Students (AIAS) national design review
	of Architects in 2005.	competition in the “open plan” category.
For three years in a row, our students have won four of the top five awards in the regional U.S. Green Building Council Natural Talent Design Competition.


*Fall 2008 end-of-term enrollment data	‡Fiscal year 2007-2008 data	†Faculty numbers represent both campuses