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School of Building Arts

Build your dream career with SCAD

Whether designing the world's next great buildings, interior spaces, furniture collections, or adaptively reusing historic places, SCAD School of Building Arts students become professional architects and designers. Students in five connected SCAD disciplines thoroughly explore design methodologies and develop a clear personal design ethos as they prepare for rewarding careers.

School of Building Arts programs

Architectural history

B.F.A.   M.F.A.

Immersive learning in one of the nation's best-preserved cityscapes lays the foundation for the highly valued SCAD architectural history degrees.

Architecture

B.F.A.   M.Arch.

SCAD architecture students develop in-demand technical expertise in a work environment and digital studio culture that mirrors or exceeds the professional sector.

Furniture design

B.F.A.   M.A.   M.F.A.

With a wonderland of advanced tools and professional-grade software, SCAD furniture design students elevate the form and function of everyday furnishings.

Interior design

B.F.A.   M.A.   M.F.A.

SCAD's interior design programs are decorated with more No. 1 rankings than any other university, according to DesignIntelligence's "Best Architecture and Design Schools."

  

"I chose SCAD because I wanted to infuse the engineering component of architecture with artistic value. Through the many art disciplines SCAD provides, I became a multifaceted student and architect."

Eslam Khalil | Director of retail design and development, Capital One (M.Arch, 2009; B.F.A., architecture, 2008)

"Spending time at SCAD as I did gave me a whole new understanding of what a university can be. The way you have prepared your students for their careers is exceptional. I can’t stop telling my friends and the Gensler team what an amazing university you have created."

Arthur Gensler | Founder, Gensler

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