Become a great designer

Start your journey at Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design

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Come to one of America's highest ranking architecture + design schools

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Top Ranking Programs

Discover why our programs make top national rankings year after year

Professionally Accredited

Earn towards your licensure with our undergraduate and graduate degrees

Build on what makes you unique

Student-Focused Faculty

Learn from award-winning faculty who are committed to teaching excellence

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World-Class Opportunities

Connect what you learn in the design labs to experiences across the world

See Inside Design

Highlights from the hands-on summer sessions for high school students considering the world of design

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Explore our design disciplines

Learn design basics, specialize in the field you choose

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Join us at Virginia Tech

Go Hokies!

Virginia's most comprehensive university

Push beyond boundaries

Virginia Tech takes a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to helping students become scholars, leaders, and problem-solvers.

Our school is powered by the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech. More than 2,300 students, 300 faculty and staff, 15,000 active alumni, and hundreds of industry partners around the globe call CAUS home.

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Discover the Main Campus

Why Blacksburg, Virginia?

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Use the City as a Laboratory

About the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center

Welcome to your new home

Make our inclusive environment yours

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Top-Ranking Programs and “Most Admired Educators”

2019-20 DesignIntelligence Rankings

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NOMAS at VT

National Organization of Minority Architecture Students at Virginia Tech

Think with your hands

Experiment through making

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Our Teaching Philosophy

How do we think about design education at Virginia Tech?

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See yourself here?

Explore the design labs, fabrication labs, libraries, residencies and more

Study safely

How we are responding to COVID-19

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Foundation Chair, Chris Pritchett, rethinks teaching during a pandemic

“For me to be forced out of my comfort zone of how I teach—it’s actually been refreshing.”

Check the CAUS COVID-19 Studio Response

Ready for Spring 2022

Faculty, students, and staff create a safe, beautiful environment

We want everyone to be as safe as possible, and we want to continue the tradition of experiential learning that is absolutely central to the Hokie way.

Get the latest from Virginia Tech at ready.vt.edu

Discover our School

Find out what we do every day

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