Architecture and Related Services
Environmental Design
Colleges award this field under 4 named programs, from Environmental Design/Architecture to Environmental Design, Other.
Inside the major
Programs within this field
Colleges may offer this field under 4 more specific program names. The program you choose affects the courses you take.
- Environmental Design/Architecture
- Prepares you to design public and private spaces, indoor and outdoor, for leisure, recreational, commercial, and living purposes, and for professional practice as environmental designers and architects. Covers the design and planning of public and private open spaces and their relationship to buildings and other aspects of the built environment; facilities management; related aspects of interior design and architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning; and professional responsibilities and standards.
- Healthcare Environment Design/Architecture
- Focuses on the design and performance of healthcare environments to optimize healing. Covers interior design, architecture, healing sciences, healthcare environments, human-centered design, and healthcare delivery.
- Sustainable Design/Architecture
- Focuses on the application of biological, physical, and social science in the design of sustainable cities and metropolitan regions. Covers community revitalization, community economic development, construction technology, design innovation, environmental economics, ethics, justice and politics, sustainable materials, sustainability theory, structural materials, and urbanism.
- Environmental Design, Other
- Environmental design not listed above.
Where it can lead
Careers this field can lead to
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- Median pay
- $171,270
- Hiring change through 2035
- 5.5%
- Job openings a year
- 14,900
To get hiredBachelor's degree
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- Median pay
- $67,190
- Hiring change through 2035
- 2.7%
- Job openings a year
- 7,700
To get hiredBachelor's degree
Explore this career Growing with the economyArchitects, Except Landscape and Naval
- Median pay
- $99,280
- Hiring change through 2035
- 4.3%
- Job openings a year
- 6,900
To get hiredBachelor's degree
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- Median pay
- $96,870
- Hiring change through 2035
- 2.6%
- Job openings a year
- 700
To get hiredDoctoral or professional degree
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- Median pay
- $89,320
- Hiring change through 2035
- 3.9%
- Job openings a year
- 3,200
To get hiredMaster's degree
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- Median pay
- $79,870
- Hiring change through 2035
- 4.4%
- Job openings a year
- 1,700
To get hiredBachelor's degree
Explore this careerAll work is projected to grow 3.5% between 2025 and 2035; read every hiring-change figure against it. The figures beside each career are the pay of that work, across everyone doing it. Graduates of this field earn $34,307 one year after completing the program, which is the start of a career rather than the shape of one.
Working style
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College options
Where to study it
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