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: 588

Degrees Awarded 2009‡
359
Graduate: 185
Undergraduate (Boulder): 174

Faculty*†
Regular: 52
Lecturers: 54

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: 3,924

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
Design + Planning at AECOM (formerly EDAW)
DHM Design
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 more than
	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		A 2009 MLA graduate won a 2009 American
	of three Best Practices in Mentorship	Society of Landscape Architects Honor
	nationally by the American Institute of	Award for her analysis and planning for a
	Architects in 2005.	redevelopment project for Denver’s Stapleton community.
Two alumni won the top prize in the 2009 regional U.S. Green Building Council Natural Talent Design Competition.


*Fall 2009 end-of-term enrollment data	‡Fiscal year 2008-2009 data	†Faculty numbers represent both campuses