Architecture at Baylor
The hybrid graduate Architecture program at Baylor University incorporates design excellence with a commitment to human flourishing, wellness, and sustainability, reflecting Baylor’s faith-integrated approach to education to prepare students for licensure in the high-demand profession of architecture.
Baylor's graduate Architecture program is pending approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Baylor anticipates enrolling the inaugural cohort in 2027.
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Architecture Shapes the Human Experience
“As an alumna of Baylor’s Interior Design program, seeing this next chapter take shape is deeply meaningful. The world truly needs a Baylor in this space because architecture shapes more than buildings; it shapes the human experience. Architecture can nurture belonging, beauty, and care for creation. It can make spaces and tasks more accessible for all users, or it can create barriers and exclude. Now more than ever, we need architects who are not only highly skilled but who approach their work with humility, curiosity, and purpose—designers whose practice is grounded in compassion and a commitment to human flourishing. Baylor is the perfect home for cultivating that vision.” —Elise King, MID, MA, Chair of the Department of Human Sciences and Design and Associate Professor of Interior Design
Accelerated, Hybrid Education
The Baylor graduate Architecture degree combines online coursework with immersive, in-person learning experiences. Building on the strength of Baylor’s CIDA-accredited Interior Design program, it advances an interdisciplinary model that bridges theory and practice, creativity and research, and design and stewardship. Open to students with a pre-professional undergraduate degree in architecture as well as those with a CIDA-accredited degree in interior design, the program provides an accessible, flexible pathway for students to pursue the professional study of architecture.
Accreditation Statement
In the United States, most registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit professional degree programs in architecture offered by institutions with U.S. regional accreditation, recognizes three types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architecture, and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted an eight-year term, an eight-year term with conditions, or a three-year term of initial accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established education standards.
Doctor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degree programs may require a non-accredited undergraduate degree in architecture for admission. However, the non-accredited degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.
Baylor University offers the following degree program which is not accredited by NAAB and is currently going under Eligibility status for NAAB accreditation: Masters of Architecture. The program may not be accepted as meeting licensure requirements in many U.S. states.