Bachelor’s degree
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
Rice University · Rice School of Architecture · Houston, Texas, United States
- Official award
- Bachelor of Arts in ArchitectureBA
- Pathway
- Pre-professionalStated for United States
- Format
- On campusfour years
- Tuition
- $71,140per year, 2026-2027
About this program
Four-year liberal-arts architecture major at Rice that coordinates history and theory, technology and design courses and is the base for the B.Arch.
Intended audience: Undergraduates who study architecture as a liberal-arts degree and may continue to the B.Arch.
- Subject
- Architecture
- Department
- Rice School of Architecture
- Awarding body
- Rice University
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
- Bachelor’s degreeA first degree entered after secondary school.
- Pathway
- Pre-professionalA first stage. The source says further study or a further qualification is needed before registration or licensure.
- Why we classify it this way
- The BA is the first four-year stage; the professional B.Arch is awarded after a further two years and requires completion of the BA with an architecture major.“the first four years of study result in a bachelor of arts in architecture; students subsequently receive a bachelor of architecture professional degree after an additional two years”Source
- Previous architecture degree required
- No
- Applicants without an architecture degree
- Not published
| Route | Duration | Credits | Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry from secondary school | four years | – | –Source |
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
- On campusTaught at the listed campus.
- Study mode
- Not published
- Duration
- four years
- Intakes
- Not published
- Campus
- Rice University (Houston)6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005
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
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.
| Item | Amount | Applies to | Dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Undergraduate tuition, students entered 2024 and later; university-wide undergraduate figureTuition · mandatory | $71,140per year, 2026-2027 | All students | 19 October 2026Source |
| Undergraduate tuition, students entered prior to 2024; university-wide undergraduate figureTuition · mandatory | $65,280per year, 2026-2027 | All students | 19 October 2026Source |
No total is shown: the sources do not state a whole-program figure and the published duration and fee basis do not support a calculation.
Studio fees, materials, model-making, printing, software, equipment, field trips and residencies are not listed by the institution on the pages we checked; architecture students often meet such costs.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: full-time or part-time options, intakes, portfolio requirement, 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)