Professional doctorate
Doctor of Design in Architecture
Florida International University · Department of Architecture · Miami, Florida, United States
- Official award
- Doctor of Design (DDes)DDes
- Pathway
- Post-professionalStated for United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Tuition
- Not published
Hybrid program
About this program
Two-year low-residency or full-residency doctoral program for academics and professionals, with residential sessions in Miami Beach.
- Subject
- Architecture
- Department
- Department of Architecture
- Awarding body
- Not stated on the pages we checked
Qualification and professional pathway
Pathway is classified only from a statement on an official page. A degree title such as B.Arch, BA, BSc, M.Arch or MSc does not decide it, and no degree by itself grants permission to practise as an architect.
- Degree level
- Professional doctorateA professional doctorate such as a D.Arch. It is listed separately from research PhDs and is not treated as equivalent to them.
- Pathway
- Post-professional / specialistA specialist or advanced master’s that builds on a professional degree or does not by itself lead to registration.
- Why we classify it this way
- FIU calls the DDes a post-professional degree.“As a post-professional degree, the DDes provides specialized credentials for advanced professional and academic applied research.”Source
- Previous architecture degree required
- Not published
- Applicants without an architecture degree
- Not published
Accreditation, validation and recognition
Recorded for this program and campus, with the authority’s role. Institutional recognition, degree-awarding authority, program accreditation, professional validation and eligibility toward registration are different things; none of them is full professional registration.
No accreditation, validation or registration-pathway record for this program has been verified yet. That does not mean none exists; check the national authority and the institution.
Study structure
- Delivery
- HybridPart online and part in person (studios, residencies, assessments or placements). A hybrid degree is never described as fully online.
- Online instruction
- Mostly online
- Campus studio required
- Not published
- Campus residencies or workshops
- Weekend-long residential learning sessions in Miami Beach each semester (low-residency option)
- Live attendance
- Live attendance not published
- International enrolment
- Not published
- Study mode
- Not published
- Duration
- Not published
- Intakes
- Not published
- Campus
- Florida International University main campus
Teaching language
- Taught in
- English
- English
- English teaching not verifiedAn English-language website does not mean a program is taught in English.
Admissions
- Portfolio
- Not published
- Interview
- Not published
- Deadlines
- Next deadline for DDes submissions: January 15, 2027
Research degree details
- Department
- Department of Architecture
- Residency expectations
- Low residency or full residency
- Deadlines
- Next deadline for DDes submissions: January 15, 2027
Fees and costs
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per year, per credit, whole program), academic year and student category, and is never converted. Annual tuition and whole-program tuition are different figures.
The institution does not publish tuition for this program on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and whether studio, materials, printing, software, equipment and field-trip costs are extra.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, duration, full-time or part-time options, intakes, portfolio requirement, whether a previous architecture degree is required, accreditation or validation record.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 19 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 19 October 2026)