Academics

The Department of Architecture offers students an educational experience that explores today’s most creative design approaches, taught by an international faculty prominent across the field.

The Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard is home to the oldest and most distinguished academic program in landscape architecture in the world.

The Department of Urban Planning and Design offers a professional degree in urban planning and a post-professional degree in urban design. It is also home to the new Master in Real Estate degree.

Receive an accredited professional degree in architecture with our MArch I and MArch II programs

The GSD offers three distinct landscape architecture program streams leading to the MLA, each of which advances research and design practices in the natural and built environments

Choose from a degree in urban design, urban planning, or joint and concurrent degrees.

A 12-month degree program for individuals interested in traditional real estate skills and learning how well-designed real estate can advance metropolitan areas worldwide.

The MDE program prepares students to create transformative solutions that positively improve society through integrating the fields of design and engineering.

The MDes post professional program empowers students to address the most urgent and complex conditions of our time through design.

Students may study for a PhD degree in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning. An additional track in Architectural Technology is also available.

The Doctor of Design (DDes) program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design is a leading doctoral degree program for highly creative and motivated professionals who wish to conduct rigorous, intensive design research.

The Graduate School of Design offers the opportunity for students to pursue two GSD programs concurrently, reducing the total amount of time necessary to obtain both degrees if they were pursued separately.