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The College of Architecture and the Built Environment is committed to educating the next generation of design and construction professionals to create an equitable and sustainable future. We are preparing graduates to be independent thinkers, innovative problem solvers, collaborators and leaders with high standards of professionalism, integrity and excellence in design.
Our commitment to and passion for design continues to grow with our student-centered approach to a professional education; a balance between theory and practice focusing on design excellence and making; and curricula structured to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for global sustainable practice.
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Professional Surveys
Hiring and supervising professionals within firms
Student & Alumni Surveys
Undergraduate and Graduate students, and new alumni who have graduated in the last three years
Deans and Academic Surveys
College Deans and Program Directors
Ongoing College of Architecture & the Built Environment Projects
- Jefferson’s Award-Winning Park in a Truck Initiative, Changing the Landscape of Lots in Philadelphia
- Interior Design Professors Bring Synesthesia to Venice
College of Architecture & the Built Environment News
- CABE Receives Numerous Awards for Work With ACE Mentor Program (May 2022)
- Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Program Granted Reaccreditation (May 2022)
- Interior Architecture Students Place Second in 2022 HOK Futures Challenge (March 2022)
- Landscape Architecture Receives Grant for The Philadelphia Pollinator Project (October 2021)
- Interior Design Students Take Top Honors in National IDEC Competition (March 2021)
- Landscape Architecture student wins prestigious ASLA award (August 2020)
- Architecture Student becomes fifth student to win Stewardship Fellowship in seven years (March 2020)
- Architectural Digest names our Interior Design program one of the Nation’s Top Programs (January 2020)
- Jefferson received top honors in the 2019-2020 DesignIntelligence Ranking (October 2019)
Recent graduates from the College of Architecture & the Built Environment posted a 100% job-success and graduate school acceptance rate in 2019 and 2020.
Student Testimonials
“I always look back at my time at Jefferson (then Philadelphia University) and consider it the most important step I took toward my current entrepreneurship. The program was so intense and advanced. I left with so much knowledge and confidence that starting my own company just a few years out didn’t seem very daunting.”
— Crystal Russell ’09, BS Interior Design
"My philosophy and the honor of being named IIDA Student of the Year are a direct result of my experience as a student at Jefferson."
— Amy Leigh Hufford '16, IIDA 2016 Student of the Year, BS Interior Design
“The collaboration between disciplines that Jefferson teaches is often the difference between work that stays conceptual and work that gets realized.”
— Sean Lockyer ‘99, Bachelor of Architecture