Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Designing buildings and the land around them, and the drafting work that supports both. ⚠⚠⚠ The one thing that governs this family: Florida licenses architects by STATUTE on a degree from a programme accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board, and only SIX Florida institutions hold one — five public, one private. A four-year architecture bachelor's that is not one of them is a pre-professional degree, not a licence route.

The degrees this program covers

⚠⚠⚠ THE ACCREDITED DEGREES ARE SPLIT ACROSS TWO CIP CODES, AND ANCHORING ON THE OBVIOUS ONE MISSES HALF THE STATE. Architecture (04.0201) holds 273 Florida credentials — UF 175, USF 48 master's, UCF 43 bachelor's, FAMU 6. ⚠⚠ But FAU awards NO bachelor's under that code while holding an accredited B.Arch, and FIU awards NO master's under it while holding an accredited M.Arch: their output — FAU 61 bachelor's, FIU 152 master's — is filed under Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology (04.0902), 277 more credentials. ⚠ This programme claims both, so the school list is the real one. ⚠⚠⚠ WHICH DEGREE EACH SCHOOL HOLDS IS THE DECISION. NAAB accredits FAMU (B.Arch and M.Arch), FAU (B.Arch), FIU (M.Arch), UF (M.Arch), USF (M.Arch) and the private University of Miami (both). ⚠⚠ Two of those award an accredited BACHELOR'S; three do not, so at UF, USF or FIU the licence route runs through the master's. ⚠⚠⚠ UCF IS NOT ON THE NAAB LIST, and it is the state's second-largest architecture bachelor's producer. Its Bachelor of Design in Architecture is deliberately pre-professional: a 2+2+2 with Valencia College and UF, ending in UF's accredited M.Arch at CityLab Orlando. ⚠ That is a real route, not a gap — but a UCF student must plan on the master's from day one. ⚠ THE THIRD ROUTE IS DIFFERENT IN KIND: Architectural Technology (04.0901) is an ASSOCIATE degree at 8 state colleges and leads to drafting work, not to registration. Verify any programme at naab.org before you enrol.

Careers this program leads to

Each one sets out the courses along the way, the licence or certification at the end, and the sources behind it.

Architect and Landscape Architect

Architects design buildings and take legal responsibility for them. ⚠⚠⚠ The fact that governs everything else: Florida licenses architects BY STATUTE on a degree from an NAAB-accredited programme, and only five Florida public institutions hold one — FAMU, FAU, FIU, UF and USF. ⚠⚠ UCF is the state's second-largest producer of architecture bachelor's and is NOT on that list, because its degree is the middle third of a deliberate 2+2+2 with Valencia and UF. This page covers three roles in one family and the three different entry levels they take.

Interior Designer

Interior designers plan the inside of buildings — space, light, materials, furniture and the codes that govern all of it. ⚠⚠⚠ The decision this page exists to answer is not which major but WHICH MARKET: in Florida ALL RESIDENTIAL work is exempt from registration by statute, while nonresidential work runs through a 60-credit education floor, up to 5,280 supervised hours and a national exam. ⚠⚠ And the credential LEVEL is worth a year — an associate or certificate needs three years of work experience where a bachelor's needs two, for the identical exam.

Careers that name this program, but not as a route

Urban and Regional Planner

⚠ A feeder BLS names. It suits someone drawn to urban design and the physical form of places.

Programs similar to this one

Neighbouring fields that share much of the same coursework, and often the same employers. ⚠ Read these before you commit to a major — which doors a neighbouring degree keeps open is the part no catalog tells you, and it is far cheaper to change now than later.

Construction Management 30 Florida schools

⚠⚠ The closest neighbour and the honest alternative. Construction management is 30 Florida institutions against architecture's 6, needs no accredited-degree statute, and construction managers earn a $114,990 median — well ABOVE architects. ⚠ A student who wants to make buildings happen rather than to author them should look hard at this before committing to a five-to-eight-year licence route.

Drafting and Design Technology 25 Florida schools

⚠ Where the architectural technology associate degree actually leads: architectural and civil drafters, 104,100 jobs, +5% against drafting overall at +1%. ⚠⚠ It is also the standard way to work in an architecture office while finishing a degree — the hours can count toward the experience requirement if they are supervised properly.

Civil Engineering 9 Florida schools

⚠⚠ The comparison that changes who applies: architecture at UF asks transfer applicants for PRECALCULUS and ALGEBRA-BASED physics; civil engineering asks for the calculus sequence and calculus-based physics. ⚠ Students who rule themselves out of building design because of mathematics are usually thinking of the engineering requirement, not the architecture one.

Graphic and Digital Design 41 Florida schools

⚠ Named because the portfolio, the software and the studio critique are shared — Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Illustrator and Photoshop all appear in the architecture technology list. ⚠⚠ The difference is the licence: design work is unregulated, and sealing a building drawing is not.

Urban and Regional Planning 5 Florida schools

⚠ BLS names architecture as a feeder, and urban design and site planning are shared ground. The difference is scale and client: an architect designs a building for an owner; a planner writes the rules every building in the jurisdiction must meet.

Interior Design 11 Florida schools

⚠⚠⚠ Two hard connections, not a resemblance. Florida regulates both in the SAME statute — chapter 481 Part I, one Board of Architecture and Interior Design — and s. 481.229(5)(a) lets a registered ARCHITECT perform interior design and use the title without separate registration. ⚠ An NAAB-accredited architecture degree is also an NCIDQ education route, at 5,280 work hours against an interior design degree's 3,520.

Florida public institutions offering this program

15 institutions awarded a credential in this field in 2023, at these levels: Associate, Bachelor's, Doctorate (research/scholarship), Master's, Postbaccalaureate certificate. A school appears here if it awards anything in the field, however limited its offering — a technical college teaching only practical nursing has a nursing program. Listed alphabetically, not ranked.

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Bachelor's · Master's

Florida Atlantic University

Bachelor's

Florida International University

Bachelor's · Doctorate (research/scholarship) · Master's · Postbaccalaureate certificate

Florida SouthWestern State College

Associate

Florida State College at Jacksonville

Associate

Gulf Coast State College

Associate

Hillsborough Community College

Associate

Indian River State College

Associate

Miami Dade College

Associate

Northwest Florida State College

Associate

Pensacola State College

Associate

St Petersburg College

Associate

University of Central Florida

Bachelor's

University of Florida

Bachelor's · Doctorate (research/scholarship) · Master's · Postbaccalaureate certificate

University of South Florida

Master's

Source: federal IPEDS completions data for 2023, first majors only — the most recent year published. ⚠ It records what was awarded, which is strong evidence of what is offered, but a program launched since 2023 will not appear here. Check the institution’s own catalog before applying.

Updated 22 September 2026. ⚠ Program pages describe a field of study, not one school’s degree — always read the catalog of the institution you are applying to.