Carnegie Mellon University

Program Description

The Master of Science in Sustainable Design (MSSD) is structured as a 12-month program (Fall-Spring-Summer), intended for recent graduates and practicing professionals with degrees related to the built environment, including architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, engineering, construction, interior architecture/design, facilities management, and others. Utilizing the expertise within our world-renowned research center, the Center for Building Performance and Diagnositcs, this program provides an integrated, interdisciplinary education that will enable its graduates to reshape the built environment in a sustainable fashion. The program covers, in depth, a range of sustainable design and high-performance green building issues and culminates with a project in which students are asked to apply the knowledge they have acquired to a project of their definition.

Additional Links

View Other Architecture Programs
View Other Masters Degree Programs
Return to Academic Programs Search Page