1. ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS: Demonstrate the ability to integrate design solutions and utilize appropriate building materials, building systems, and sound construction practices.
2. BUILDING SYSTEMS KNOWLEDGE: Incorporate a wide range of technical skills and professional architectural knowledge during schematic design to demonstrate a comprehensive application of life safety, accessibility, and sustainability issues in making sound design decisions across varying scales and levels of complexity.
3. GRAPHIC DESIGN AND REPRESENTATION: Contrive of multifaceted two and three-dimensional graphic representation techniques using a wide variety of both traditional and digital methods, to describe the architectural design.
4. BUILDING DESIGN PRINCIPLES: The knowledge and the know how to apply design decisions through appropriate technical documentation to serveclient’s needs, create a pleasing aesthetic, create cost effective solutions, and become responsible stewards of the environment.
5. ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS: Demonstrate the ability to integrate design solutions and utilize appropriate building materials, building systems, and sound construction practices.
6. PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE: Collaborate and lead teams of stakeholders throughout the design process.
7. Conceive, develop, and implement solutions to a wide range of design problems in the physical built environment.
8. Understand the ethics, legal requirements, financial and social responsibilities of professional practice.

In the United States, most registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit professional degree programs in architecture offered by institutions with U.S. regional accreditation, recognizes three types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architecture, and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted an eight-year term, an eight-year term with conditions, or a two-year term of continuing accreditation, or a three-year term of initial accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established education standards. Doctor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degree programs may require a non-accredited undergraduate degree in architecture for admission. However, the non-accredited degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.

Utah Valley University's Department of Architecture and Engineering Design offers the following NAAB-accredited degree program: 

• Bachelor of Architecture (153 total number of credits required) 

ACCREDITATION UPDATE

The NAAB grants candidacy status to new programs that have developed viable plans for achieving initial accreditation. Candidacy status indicates that a program expects to achieve initial accreditation within six years of achieving candidacy, if its plan is properly implemented.  In order to meet the education requirement, set forth by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, an applicant for an NCARB Certificate must hold a professional degree in architecture from a program accredited by the NAAB; the degree must have been awarded not more than two years prior to initial accreditation. However, meeting the education requirement for the NCARB Certificate may not be equivalent to meeting the education requirement for registration in a specific jurisdiction. Please contact NCARB for more information.

Utah Valley University's Department of Architecture and Engineering Design was granted candidacy status for the following professional degree program in architecture: 

• Bachelor of Architecture (153 total number of credits required)

Year candidacy awarded: 2022

Next visits:

• Continuation of Candidacy, Fall 2023
• Initial Accreditation, Fall 2025

Projected year to achieve initial accreditation: 2025

Earliest graduation date projected to meet NCARB education requirement: 2023