UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

The College of Environmental Design is ranked #1 public university in the U.S. for architecture and the built environment (QS World University Rankings 2025). CED is UC Berkeley’s home for theory, research, innovation, and practice focused on the built environment. Housing the Departments of Architecture, City & Regional Planning, and Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, as well as the Institute for Urban & Regional Development and five affiliated research centers, the college is an interdisciplinary creative community dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing environmental problems. Research and teaching focus on design excellence, climate solutions, equity and social justice, and new materials and technologies. When it was founded in 1959, it was the first school to combine the disciplines of architecture, planning, and landscape architecture under one umbrella, and CED continues to lead the way toward an integrated approach to analyzing, understanding, and designing our built environment. CED awards the following degrees: Undergraduate BA Architecture BA Landscape Architecture BA Urban Studies BA Sustainable Environmental Design Graduate and Postgraduate MArch Master of Architecture MS Master of Science in Architecture MAAD Master of Advanced Architectural Design MLA Master of Landscape Architecture MCP Master of City Planning MRED + D Master of Real Estate Development + Design MUD Master of Urban Design MDes Master of Arts in Design (with the College of Engineering) PhD in Architecture PhD in Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning PhD in City & Regional Planning