Mission and values
The College of Design is a new, multidisciplinary college incorporating the departments of architecture, landscape architecture, and design, housing and apparel, and associated research and outreach units. The new college aspires to be an international and national leader in multidisciplinary research, creative production, teaching, and public engagement in a wide variety of design-related fields.
Dean: Professor Thomas Fisher.
Faculty: 50 tenured and tenure-track faculty members; 75 adjunct, visiting, contract faculty.
Enrollment: 1,004 undergraduate students; 298 graduate students.
Undergraduate demographics: TBD
Graduate demographics: Architecture and Landscape Architecture TBD. DHA: 85% female; 15% male; 3.72 average GPA; approximately 18% eligible for degree.
Staff: 108 professional and administrative (instructors, researchers, administrators); 33 civil service/bargaining unit.
Departments: School of Architecture, Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel, Department of Landscape Architecture.
Undergraduate degrees offered: architecture (BS Arch), architecture (BA Arch), design in architecture (BDA), apparel design (BS), graphic design (BFA), housing studies (BS), interior design (BS), retail merchandising (BS), environmental design (BED).
Minors: architecture, design, environmental design, housing studies, retail merchandising.
Post baccalaureate certificates: housing studies, metropolitan design.
Graduate degrees offered: architecture (MArch), apparel, design communication, housing studies, interior design (MA, MS, PhD); heritage conservation and preservation (MS in architecture); interactive design (MA and MFA); landscape architecture (MLA), sustainable design (MS in architecture).
Major research and outreach units: Buckman Fellowship, Center for Changing Landscapes, Center for Design in Health, Center for Rural Design, Center for Sustainable Building Research, Center for World Heritage Studies, Digital Design Consortium, Goldstein Museum of Design, Human Dimensioning Laboratory, InformeDesign, Metropolitan Design Center, Midwest Universities Radon Consortium, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
Alumni: 13,737 living alumni; 15,305 total alumni.
Annual budget: The CDes annual budget for FY 2010 is $27.1 million.