Find out more about Boston Architectural College

Boston Architectural College offers the online Master of Architecture degree for students interested in advancing their skills through an architecture program.  This curriculum develops talents in architectural theory, techniques, practices, and planning from a distance.  Through the two-year master’s program, students prepare for their studies and professional responsibilities with specialized courses in architectural theory and practices.  

You will enter and move through the program with a cohort of fellow colleagues.  Coursework includes the rigorous exchange of ideas and critiques conducted online in graphic, text, and audio formats.  Students will complete an intensive week-long residency each semester at the BAC in Boston.

The online Master of Design Studies combines online learning with low residency requirements in order to provide flexibility for working professionals in combination with in-person collaboration.  In addition, you can apply curriculum to your professional practice, giving you the opportunity to advance your career while you study. Virtual classes retain the same standards of on-campus counterparts.

Concentrations include:

• Human Health: integrate physical, environmental and social science studies into course design.
• Historic Preservation: learn how to promote and preserve historic structures and landscapes.
• Sustainable Design: incorporate spatial design with best sustainable and environmental practices.

The Master of Science in Interior Architecture is an online architecture program designed for interior designers.  The curriculum allows interior designers to further their studies in design strategies and research or to develop specialized areas of design knowledge.  You will take courses in theory, method, and application with an emphasis placed on the character and use of spaces.  This architecture program challenges students to create environments that “…are responsive to the human experience” in a low-residency program that features the same rigor as the traditional classroom. 

Students will learn to:

• Develop innovative methods of creating more responsive environments
• Apply knowledge gained from cultural studies and social sciences research to design
• Incorporate input from a diverse set of design determinants into design strategies
• Create performance-based design solutions