# About

**Source**: https://aap.cornell.edu/glance/
**Parent**: https://aap.cornell.edu/undergraduate-admissions/undergraduate-admissions-architecture/

**A global leader in our fields, the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University drives acts of transformation. Together, we advance multidisciplinary research, critical inquiry, and creative practices to engage with the world’s challenges and build thriving, resilient, and inspired futures.**

[Learn more about who we are](#)

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- 1871

  Founding Year
- 5

  Departments
- 3

  Campuses
- 18

  Degrees Offered
- 583

  Undergraduate Students
- 420

  Graduate Students
- 77

  Faculty
- 69

  Visiting Faculty
- 73

  Staff

## Our Campuses

- [### Ithaca](https://aap.cornell.edu/ithaca/)

  Cornell AAP is situated on the Arts Quad on Cornell’s main campus in Ithaca, NY. Students, faculty, and staff find expansive space for deep inquiry, collaboration, and discovery.
- [### New York City](https://aap.cornell.edu/aap-nyc/)

  Located at the AAP NYC Gensler Family Center in the Tata Innovation building on the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, our New York City-based offerings expand education with first-hand experience, immersion, collaboration, and connection across disciplines and industries.
- [### Rome](https://aap.cornell.edu/cornell-in-rome/)

  Cornell in Rome offers students an opportunity to study architecture, art, and planning in situ as they explore the past, present, and future in the city and its surroundings.

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> The culture at AAP is a combination of super aspirational ideas and directly applied knowledge. It’s not often you get to breathe the air of both at once.

In conversation with Dean J. Meejin Yoon

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## Our Departments

- [### Architecture](https://aap.cornell.edu/architecture/)

  The Department of Architecture is widely recognized as a leader in design education, research, and practice. Architecture students and faculty from around the world come to Cornell AAP to advance the field and make transformative impacts on the built environment.
- [### Art](https://aap.cornell.edu/art/)

  The study of art at Cornell AAP means embracing longstanding traditions in creative practice across mediums alongside emerging modes of critical inquiry, making, and expression. The art department offers world-class facilities for artists to teach, learn, exhibit, and explore.
- [### Planning](https://aap.cornell.edu/planning/)

  City and Regional Planning department faculty and students comprise a community that applies planning practices and scholarship to concerns such as social and environmental justice, equity, climate change, transportation, housing, and development.
- [### Real Estate](https://aap.cornell.edu/real-estate/)

  The Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate is a multicollege department that combines expertise across Cornell AAP and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, spanning development, finance, urban design and planning, adaptation and policy, among other timely topics for the industry.
- [### Design Tech](https://aap.cornell.edu/design-tech/)

  Spanning five colleges at Cornell and administered by AAP, the Department of Design Tech is a multicollege, transdisciplinary initiative advancing innovation and collaboration in research and teaching across leading-edge design practices and emerging technologies.

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## Our Programs

## Bachelors

- [Bachelor of Architecture

  For undergraduates, AAP's Department of Architecture offers a five-year …](https://aap.cornell.edu/architecture/bachelor-of-architecture/)
- [Bachelor of Fine Arts

  This curriculum combines the department's intensive studio culture with …](https://aap.cornell.edu/art/bachelor-of-fine-arts/)
- [Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Studies

  URS students go on to work in a diverse array of fields from urban plann…](https://aap.cornell.edu/planning/crp-academic-programs/bachelor-of-science-in-urban-and-regional-studies/)

## Masters

- [Professional Master of Architecture

  This fully accredited three-and-one-half-year course of study is dedicat…](https://aap.cornell.edu/architecture/graduate-architecture-programs/professional-master-of-architecture/)
- [Post-Professional Master of Science, Advanced Architectural Design

  An intensive program offering a critical framework for investigating per…](https://aap.cornell.edu/architecture/graduate-architecture-programs/post-professional-master-of-science-advanced-architectural-design/)
- [Post-Professional Master of Science, Advanced Urban Design

  The New York City-based Master of Science, Advanced Urban Design program…](https://aap.cornell.edu/architecture/graduate-architecture-programs/post-professional-master-of-science-advanced-urban-design/)
- [Master of Fine Arts in Creative Visual Arts

  An intimate and diverse community that supports interdisciplinary and me…](https://aap.cornell.edu/art/master-of-fine-arts-in-creative-visual-arts/)
- [Master of Fine Arts in Image Text

  A low-residency M.F.A. program traversing visual and literary arts...](https://aap.cornell.edu/art/master-of-fine-arts-in-image-text/)
- [Master of Regional Planning

  A multifaceted, trans-disciplinary program that prepares the next genera…](https://aap.cornell.edu/planning/crp-academic-programs/master-of-regional-planning/)
- [Master of Science in Regional Science

  A multidisciplinary field that explores how geographic location and spat…](https://aap.cornell.edu/planning/crp-academic-programs/master-of-science-in-regional-science/)
- [Master of Arts in Historic Preservation Planning

  Dedicated to protecting, maintaining, and planning for buildings, sites,…](https://aap.cornell.edu/planning/crp-academic-programs/master-of-arts-in-historic-preservation-planning/)
- [Master of Professional Studies in Real Estate

  Preparing professionals for limitless opportunities in the real estate i…](https://realestate.cornell.edu/)
- [Master of Science in Design Technology

  A research and project degree that bridges disciplines and domains to ca…](https://aap.cornell.edu/design-tech/master-of-science-in-design-technology/)

## Doctorates

- [Doctor of Philosophy in History of Architecture and Urban Development

  Representing a sophisticated blend of interdisciplinary research and sch…](https://aap.cornell.edu/architecture/graduate-architecture-programs/ph-d-in-history-of-architecture-and-urban-development/)
- [Doctor of Philosophy in City and Regional Planning

  Training the next generation of innovative and cutting-edge planning sch…](https://aap.cornell.edu/planning/crp-academic-programs/doctor-of-philosophy-in-city-and-regional-planning/)
- [Doctor of Philosophy in Regional Science

  Designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of regional, …](https://catalog.cornell.edu/programs/regional-science-phd/)

## Dual Degrees

- [Dual Master’s Degree in Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture

  A professionally accredited degree intended for students with an interes…](https://catalog.cornell.edu/programs/mla-mrp/)
- [Dual Master’s Degree in Regional Planning and Real Estate

  By providing skills and knowledge in both fields, the three-year M.P.S./…](https://catalog.cornell.edu/programs/regional-planning-real-estate-mps-re-mrp/)

## Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities

The Center for Cities at AAP is a hub for applied, interdisciplinary research that transfers knowledge to action to build more just, equitable, and sustainable urban futures.

- [Learn More](https://aap.cornell.edu/cornell-mui-ho-center-for-cities/)

## Collaborative Research, Partnerships, and Initiatives

AAP’s partnerships across Cornell’s many departments, colleges, and centers foster faculty and student collaborations with colleagues and peers around initiatives that advance community-engaged learning, sustainability, art and culture, social impact, and innovative approaches to multi-disciplinary pedagogy.