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Admissions OverviewLife at the UO is more than classes. It's community, culture, and the kind of experiences that shape who you become.
Student Life OverviewJoin a creative community at the UO in Eugene and Portland—training artists, architects, and designers who use their imagination and diverse tools to make inspiring creations that tackle ecological challenges and shape a more inclusive built environment.
With a focus on sustainability and innovation, the College of Design offers 27 programs at the UO Eugene and Portland, including degrees and majors in architecture, urban planning, art history, sports product design, and more.
With programs in architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, and historic preservation at the UO in Eugene and Portland, the School of Architecture & Environment promotes innovation and environmental sustainability in the design of buildings, interiors, landscapes, and communities.
Study fine arts, digital arts, product design, and more with a community of creatively and critically engaged artists and designers at the UO in Eugene and Portland.
Make a difference in communities through interdisciplinary programs in urban planning, public administration, and nonprofit management that prepare you to work in government, nonprofit, and private-sector organizations and address society's most critical problems.
By exploring global history, culture, and society through art and architecture, you’ll develop skills to appreciate visual and material culture and understand how the past connects to the present.
Sustainable City Year Program
Studio Learning
Study Abroad and Field Schools
Our faculty in both Eugene and Portland are practicing architects, designers, and artists working to advance sustainability and address current challenges in architecture, art, community planning, and design.
Professor of Architecture and Building Science
Director, High Performance Environments Lab
Ihab Elzeyadi focuses on architecture that supports human wellbeing through indoor environmental quality, building performance evaluation, and lighting design.
Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory
Kate Mondloch’s research centers on contemporary art and theory, digital and immersive environments, and the relationship between art, perception, and embodied experience.
Associate Professor, Planning, Public Policy and Management
Nicole Ngo’s research explores public health, environmental policy, and urban sustainability with projects examining the impacts of traffic and transportation on air pollution and health.
Professor, Art
Tannaz Farsi uses objects and images to explore history, identity, and geography and draws from cultural artifacts, feminist histories, and authoritarian systems to represent non-Western subjects through a lens that defies conventional identification.
Associate Professor of Interior Architecture
With professional experience in space planning, design, and project management, Kyu-ho Ahn studies human behavior in the built environment, universal design, equity-centered design, and accessibility.
Professor, Planning, Public Policy and Management
Gerard Sandoval works at the intersection of urban planning, immigration, and sustainable neighborhood revitalization to support ethnic identity, equity, and bioregionalism.
Professor, Product Design Portland
With connections to Nike and over 110 US and foreign patents, Susan Sokolowski works on sports product design, performance footwear, and wearable technology.
Our students don’t just become artists, architects, and designers—alumni use their College of Design experience for creative pursuits as social scientists, humanities scholars, engineers, economists, environmental advocates, planners, policy makers, and more.
The architecture program at UO Portland pushes us to think beyond the traditional role of the architect. We need to think deeply about the impact of our building, how we engage culturally with the community and build buildings that people will love and want to take care of for 100 years.
Master of Architecture Degree '25 · Architectural Designer, Bora Architecture and Interiors, Portland
It has been awesome getting the opportunity to be creative and actually make a physical product that you've designed from the first sketch.
Product Design Degree '23
It’s been a wonderful experience to get to learn from so many types of professors from so many fields that have supported me from the start. My interests have been celebrated in a way that’s never happened to me before.
Master of Community and Regional Planning Degree '23 · Transportation Planner, Oakland, CA
The biggest factor by far is the quality of the instructors. Almost all of them are actual working architects. They are so brilliant, extremely talented, and they give a lot of freedom, which allows the creative environment to be diverse.
Architecture Major '26 · Architecture Student, University of Oregon Portland
I am passionate about the discipline, and this program allows me to refine and strengthen my research and writing skills while simultaneously expanding my academic and professional opportunities within the field of art history.
Master of Arts, Art History Degree '27 (expected)· Graduate Student, Accelerated Art History Master's Program
Whenever I see people wearing my product I feel overjoyed. I think, 'It's a shoe.' They could have worn anything. They chose one I designed. That's a major honor.
Architecture Degree '80 · Senior Designer and Nike DNA Design Specialist, Nike