CED offers the four-year bachelor of arts degree in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban studies. The bachelor of arts degree is a nonprofessional degree, providing:

• a basic education in the skills, professional knowledge, and values common to the several branches of the field;
• an opportunity to develop a broad understanding of the cultural, social, and technological contexts of the field;
• the chance for students to formulate a particular role for themselves: practitioners, researchers, and specialists equipped with specialized though pre-professional command of one sub-field such as architecture or landscape architecture; and
• an education sufficiently sound in its general outlines to provide a basis for work in another field such as construction, business, law, or government.
   

The college also offers a number of minor programs to undergraduate students at UC Berkeley. Minors offer the opportunity for specialization in a particular sub-field of the subject major.

Undergraduate Admissions

For detailed information on undergraduate study and admissions at CED, please see our website for Prospective Undergraduate Students.